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Understanding the implications of enabling children to grow into healthy, happy, educated and inquiring adults, in safety and free from adversity.

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Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about tools

23 Feb 2018

Children as young as seven apply basic laws of physics to problem-solving, rather than learning from what has previously been rewarded, suggests new...

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Lucy Kivlin and her baby Ginny

Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves

29 Nov 2017

Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and...

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Experts express concerns over infant mental health assessment

11 Oct 2017

Forty world experts on child development and mental health have released a joint statement calling for caution when applying an influential...

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Cuts to mental health services putting young people at risk, say experts

15 Sep 2017

Funding cuts and austerity measures are damaging young people’s access to mental health services, with potentially long-term consequences for their...

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Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library

14 Jun 2017

A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥researchers found that a high fat and high sugar diet exaggerates metabolic changes in the mother which occur naturally during pregnancy, potentially rendering her more susceptible to health complications.

High fat, high sugar diet during pregnancy 'programs' for health complications in mother and child

06 Apr 2017

Eating a high fat and high sugar diet when pregnant leads to metabolic impairments in both the mother and her unborn child, which may 'program' them...

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Encouragement from teachers has greatest influence on less advantaged children

28 Mar 2017

‘Big data’ study finds that children from families with limited education have strongest long-term response to teacher encouragement, and are more...

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Pets are a child’s best friend, not their siblings

26 Jan 2017

Children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their brothers or sisters, according to new research from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥...

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Thomas Hogg

Graduate, get a job … make a difference #3

18 Jan 2017

Cambridge graduates enter a wide range of careers but making a difference tops their career wish lists. In this series, inspiring graduates from the...

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Teenagers who access mental health services see significant improvements, study shows

18 Jan 2017

Young people with mental health problems who have contact with mental health services are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical...

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Artificial pancreas trial in young children with diabetes receives €4.6millon grant from European Commission

05 Sep 2016

An international trial to test whether an artificial pancreas can help young children manage their type 1 diabetes will begin next year, thanks to a...

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Teenagers in Oslo, Norway

Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for up to four years

09 Aug 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥first study to look at the impact of the relationship with teachers on adolescent behaviour finds that a positive teacher-student relationship...

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