Education

Features

Road safety: treading carefully

With more cars on the road, and at higher speeds, there is an increase in fatal accidents. Journalist Caroline Roberts explores how we can keep each other safe.

Education
Features

Thank you, Ros!

Ros Godson, lead professional officer at Unite, retires at the end of 2017 after a 40-year career
in nursing. Her colleagues share their thoughts…

Health and wellbeing, Education
Features

More than a game

Young children aren’t getting enough playtime outside, but why is that a problem, and how can you help to change the situation? Journalist John Windell reports.

Health and wellbeing, Education
Back to school Features

Beating the back-to-school blues

The arrival of the new school year can be a difficult time for children, reports Phil Harris.

Education, Mental Health
In an age of voice activation and touchscreen technology, has the humble book had its day? Features

Doing it by the book

In an age of voice activation and touchscreen technology, has the humble book had its day? We look at why reading is still so crucial – and how community practitioners can help families get children into books.

Health and wellbeing, Education
Drawings of people identify gifted children News

Drawings of people identify gifted children

A study of portraits drawn by children finds details in a person’s appearance, like freckles, are included only by the ‘highly gifted’.

Education
NI children’s commissioner warns against ‘unacceptable’ isolation discipline in schools News

NI children’s commissioner warns against ‘unacceptable’ isolation discipline in schools

The children’s commissioner has spoken out against the practice of using ‘isolation rooms’ to discipline children in schools.

Education
Pile of books News

NI ahead on improving pupil literacy

Northern Irish pupils are the most likely to make improvements in reading, a UK-wide study has found.

Education
Features

Sex education: how to really do it

Children are growing up in a confusing world of online sex and modern gender norms, says Anna Scott. They require relevant, up-to-date sex education to keep them safe from harm and able to form healthy relationships.

Sexual health, Education
Inter-professional education Features

Inter-professional education: A missed opportunity?

While a lack of coverage in the literature relating to inter-professional education suggests little activity in this area to date, joint training between health visitors, school nurses and social workers could be mutually beneficial, as Sarah Morton discovered.

Professional, Education
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England and Wales: boy of five among 400 sexting cases

Thousands of children, some as young as five, have been investigated for sexting. Nearly 400 children under the age of 12 have been spoken to by police in the last three years across England and Wales, according to freedom of information requests from the BBC.

Sexual health, Education
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