Today’s generation of schoolchildren are being set on a path towards future illness by parents who insist on driving them to school, according to a new report being released today to mark Walk to School...

Children from better-off homes are unlikely to do better in exams or tests if they attend nurseries, according to an influential study published on Monday. The researchers argue that the findings raise the question of...

Pupils' well-being and education should not be sacrificed to meet new targets, the leader of a head teachers' union tells its annual conference.

Writer and researcher who studied the effect on children of separation from their parents, particularly in hospitalsJoyce Robertson, who has died aged 94, made a major contribution to the care of young children who have...

Campaigners demand urgent shake-up of court procedure after seven barristers cross-examined a girl every day for three weeks in child-grooming case"I want to ask you once more why you are telling lies?" demands defence...

A young woman loves her lifestyle too much to want children, but worries that her husband feels differently. Mariella Frostrup says suffragettes did not fight for such shallow choices The dilemma I am 27 years old and...

Britain's headteachers withdrew their support from Michael Gove, overwhelmingly backing a vote of no confidence in his school reforms and then heckling him as he addressed them. Mr Gove's reception by 500 headteachers...

Education Secretary Michael Gove receives one of the angriest receptions of his three years in office as he appears before head teachers in Birmingham.

Headteachers today passed a vote of no confidence in the Government's education policies.    

Maggie Boyle to leave post months after operations at LGI children's heart unit were suspended over high death ratesAn NHS trust at the centre of a row over death rates for children's heart surgery is to replace its...

Are sharents – parents who blog, tweet and post pictures about all aspects of their children's lives – doing their children harm by crossing the boundaries between public and private life?They have been dubbed...

The good and the useless, according to psychologists

Headteachers will be drawing up a blacklist of poor employers after complaints about the use of bully-boy tactics to get rid of heads have soared through the roof.    

A leading academy chain has been criticised for widespread financial irregularities in an official report.

Social workers, tasked with protecting vulnerable children, should not be drawn into the culture of disbelief around asylumA report published today says that hundreds of vulnerable children have been put at risk because...

Oxford University's prestigious business school has been dragged into a row over plans to present the president of Rwanda with a student award for his country's economic development despite continuing controversy over...

One of the country's biggest academies chains has been censured in an official government report for endorsing extravagant expenses claims, first-class rail travel and "a culture of prestige venues" for...

Computers and smartphones have become a "digital dummy" used by parents to pacify their children, says a head teachers' leader.

This man had an affair with my friend when she was 16 and I don't want him near my girl. What should I do?My daughter is due to start high school in September and I have just found out that I know one of the teachers at...

Twenty-month-old is formally identified by her father as Sarah Dahane, while her mother is believed to have left the UKA toddler found dead at a house on Thursday has been identified as 20-month-old Sarah Dahane, police...