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By Joanne Smith © FamVeld/Shutterstock A baby’s experiences can have a profound impact on the rest of their life, writes NSPCC's Joanne Smith June 7-13 marks Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. Now more than ever, we should turn our minds to the thousands of babies born in Scotland each year (especially those born during the pandemic) – into a society of heightened stress and anxiety. Joanne Smith A baby’s experiences can have a profound impact on the rest of their life. But, unfortunately, this is a stage of life that is too often overlooked and undersupported. When children ar...

Washington was in a child care crisis before the pandemic -- and now, with providers wondering how long they can stay in business, it looks to get worse.

THE Executive has been warned a new action plan to tackle the effects a decade of austerity on education underachievement among deprived children is

A REPORT examining links between persistent educational underachievement and socio-economic background has been published.

BBC News By Robbie Meredith Published image captionThe newly-published research was a commitment in the New Decade New Approach agreement The Department of Education needs to spend more than £180m on widespread measures to tackle educational underachievement over the next five years. All children should also go to pre-school for at least four and a half hours a day. There needs to be significantly more investment in early years education. Those are some of the actions recommended in a wide-ranging report, called A Fair Start. The research had been a commitment in the New Decade New Approach...