Just as we might have been hoping that our children and young people can emerge from under the blanket of pandemic anxiety and concern that has placed at risk their carefree days of childhood so along rolls another ethereal risk in the cloak of Russia’s incursion of, and violence...
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For all of those bewildered mums and grown up children across the nation:
Healthwatch Dorset have published a new report about maternity services in Dorset, called Baby Steps.
Healthwatch Dorset spoke to over 100 local women and their families to find out what it's really like when you have a baby in Dorset. They organised two events in Boscombe, ran a facebook survey and...
According to news reports this week, the government is considering cost of living action measures including reducing the ratio of staff to children in nurseries and childcare settings, to ease the pain of childcare costs for hard-pressed parents.
Yet this proposal would cut corners and could compromise child safety, according...
When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful.In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden's family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. "She doesn't...
*Sarah, once a contented "smug married" woman leading a life characterised by its "middle-class, middle-everything" essence, encountered a defining moment when a knock on her door shattered her world.
On the eve of her son's birthday, Sarah was startled awake by the sight of police officers at her doorstep, accompanied...
Psychologists led by Dr. Candice Mills at the University of Texas conducted a study involving 48 children, ages six to 15, to unravel when kids typically stop believing in Santa Claus. The children answered questions about how they learned the truth and their resulting emotions, while their parents shared...
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If you are walking through Dorchester Borough Gardens, you may spot ribbons tied to the bandstand.
Our Forget-Me-Not Group is giving bereaved families the opportunity to come together during
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek (9-15 October).
Families are invited to display the names of babies being remembered on ribbons and tie them to the bandstand until...
