Study Compares Active Video Gaming to Unstructured Outdoor Play
12 June 2015
The increasing use of video games is often blamed for children’s lack of…
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inShare £1 million to develop early years workforce
2 June 2015
Independent review of early learning and childcare workforce published. £1 million to help…
Read more »The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain
6 May 2015
Interesting blog – click here Science supports many of our intuitions about the benefits of…
Read more »Playing outside can save your child’s eyesight: Not enough time spent outdoors is creating an ‘epidemic’ of eye conditions
28 April 2015
Hours glued to TV screens and electronic devices and not enough time spent…
Read more »New practical tool challenges the cotton wool culture
13 November 2014
New practical tool challenges the cotton wool culture and paves the way for…
Read more »Play ‘boosts children’s development and happiness’, BBC News
6 August 2014
Play helps boost children’s language development, problem solving, risk management and independent learning…
Read more »How much independence should children have?
4 August 2014
It is the same story every summer. Surveys are issued and articles are…
Read more »Childhood obesity progress is only a ‘drop in the ocean’, TES
4 August 2014
More than 16,000 overweight or obese children have taken part in a government…
Read more »A little video gaming ‘linked to well-adjusted children’, BBC News
4 August 2014
Playing video games for a short period each day could have a small…
Read more »Children’s TV ‘packed with junk-food references’ BBC News
7 July 2014
Unhealthy food makes a “startlingly” high number of appearances in children’s television shows,…
Read more »Children who watch less TV are better behaved, slimmer and do better at school, researchers claim
1 April 2014
Children who spend less time in front of a television or computer screen…
Read more »Are you Going to Join The Playtime Revolution?
23 October 2013
Many children and young people only get out to play when they are…
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