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Gaming for good: New Switch game supports wellbeing of children in hospitals

Kuato Studios partners with Starlight to support the wellbeing of children in hospital through play

Award-winning edtech games company, Kuato Studios, and children’s charity, Starlight, team up to help children in hospitals through a Nintendo Switch ™ game.

London: UK edtech company, Kuato Studios , has partnered with a children’s charity which uses play to support children in...

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New training to support Covid-born babies and their challenges

NDNA acknowledges the challenges for Covid-born babies National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has released a new webinar to give practitioners strategies to support babies and young children, whose wellbeing and development have been stunted by Covid-19.

Children born during the pandemic – just under 290,000 were born across the whole of the UK between March and July 2020 - have had their...

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Devon’s NHS launch online health and wellbeing app library

The NHS in Devon has announced the launch of a new health and wellbeing app library for local people, powered by the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA).

Effectively a comparison website, the localised site for Devon allows patients and healthcare professionals to search and download from a wide range of apps, making it quicker and easier for people across Devon to...

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It’s a Baby Thing: Adjusting to Life as a New Parent 

Becoming a parent is a feeling like no other. While you stare into the eyes of your newly born child, your heart might feel like it could burst with joy. Moments of bliss with your child are endless, although they are sometimes accompanied by feelings of exhaustion.

This article will explore three ways you can adjust to life as a new parent. After all, caring for a child is...

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Improvements seen in children and young people's wellbeing

State of the Nation report highlights positive impact of keeping schools open, with millions more to be invested in senior mental health lead training.

From: Department for Education , Department for Work and Pensions , Department of Health and Social Care , Will Quince MP , Gillian Keegan MP , The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP , and Baroness Deborah Stedman-Scott OBE DL

Published 8...

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Top tips to look out for if you think your children are masking

As a quick disclaimer, I should say that I am not a professional, a doctor or a psychiatrist., I am just a regular person, except I have accidently spent my entire life masking out of fear. I am now an adult (or 42-year-old child, whichever you prefer), and have only recently resurfaced from my lifelong personality projection.

It’s only since my four children, a nine-year-old, a...

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INTERNET MATTERS LAUNCHES NEW INDEX TO MEASURE UK CHILDREN’S ‘DIGITAL WELLBEING’

Internet Matters today releases its first ever index to track children’s wellbeing in a digital world – and it reveals the vital role that parents’ own habits play in their child’s growth and experiences.

The Index is the result of 12-month project that studied children and parents from the same household about young people’s behaviours, experiences and impacts of their online lives....

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Hundreds of thousands of pupils benefit from tutoring

New figures reveal over 300,000 tutoring courses began last term

From: Department for Education and Robin Walker MP

Hundreds of thousands of children across the country benefited from catch up tutoring in the first term of the academic year, new figures from the Department for Education reveal today (Tuesday 11 January).

Over 300,000 tutoring courses began last term, nearing...

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More support to keep pupils in the classroom

Face-to-face education prioritised as it is important for pupils’ education and wellbeing

From: Department for Education and The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP

Published 2 January 2022

Thousands of new air filters and further temporary measures will be introduced to protect face-to-face education and minimise disruption, ahead of the pupils returning to the classroom this week....

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Rising costs put extra financial pressure on families this Christmas  

Children could be exposed to more intense and damaging parental conflict this Christmas as heightened economic pressures put strains on parents’ relationships

A YouGov survey of 1,053 parents of children aged 18 and under in Britain, commissioned by research charity and What Works Centre, the Early Intervention Foundation, has found that 56% of those who celebrate Christmas worry about their...

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