Christmas and the end of one year and the beginning of a new one is a traditional time to reflect on the past and look to the future and in this blog I will give some highlights of 2014. But …
Supporting the health and wellbeing of school aged children requires a workforce with expert knowledge, defined public health knowledge and the ability to respond to a plethora of issues raised by children, young people and families. School nurses and their …
We've reached the end of the week and I hope you have found plenty of interest in the material and information that we have posted, published and promoted. As with each week of action we have done, we have increased …
I am sitting on a train heading back to London from Christchurch in Dorset. The great thing about trains is that they allow time for reflection. As I gaze out of the window and think about what I have seen …
When babies are born it’s easy for the focus to remain firmly on the mother. After all, she’s the one who has been through pregnancy and childbirth, and needs time to recover and become an expert at breastfeeding! But mums …
We know that health care impacts on overall health, but when you work in health care it can be easy to forget that the biggest influences on overall health lie outside of health care. Health behaviours are thought to make …
Neuroscience is now confirming what has been the experience of people who work with adolescents for some time: that the teenage brain is much more malleable than had previously been thought. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Society Research Fellow and Professor of …
Telling people that the Government is developing a population measure of child development at age two can sound rather dry; unsurprisingly their eyes start to glaze over…. But when you say that for the first time we will be building …
Children learn more between the ages of one and six than they do at any other time of their lives. Many parents know that it’s the formative stages – even more than those spent at secondary school – that really …
A commitment to joint working by Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) and Health Visitor (HV) leaders in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, led to a successful bid to DH which was the starting point for getting children talking and ready for …
