Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Increasing access to parks and gardens may not be enough to help teenagers in urban areas get a healthy amount of sleep.
Aspirations and emotional and behavioural problems in primary school aged children
The risk of slipping down the earnings ladder has increased for the less educated and those living outside London, a new study suggests
A ‘tough love’ parenting style is the most effective approach to preventing teenagers from binge drinking, a new study claims
Pre-school education has a positive long-term impact on children’s educational achievement but is not helping pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to catch up with their middle-class peers, a new study has concluded.
If a boy’s father is absent when he’s a child, he is more likely to become a father himself at a young age, a new study suggests
Children living in poverty in some rural areas have lower standards of reading than their counterparts in cities, a new analysis of pupil assessments has shown.
CLS staff to present papers and a data discovery workshop at the SLLS conference in Bielefeld, Germany 26-30 September 2011
A recent report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests parents’ marital status has ‘little or no additional impact on the child’s development’.
A new analysis of how people secure professional and managerial careers shows that family background remains just as important as it was three decades ago, relative to educational qualifications.
Presentations from Parenting & Child Wellbeing Conference held Tuesday 21 June are now available
Parents, the family home, and children’s own attitudes and behaviours could all contribute towards reducing educational inequalities, a recent study shows.
A new set of reports from the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort study describe the realities of life for Scots children today.
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