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.
CLS is delighted to welcome two new colleagues. Professor John McDonald and Professor Robert Michael
CLS would like to gather information from users of CLS data sets. If you are using NCDS, BCS70 or MCS data in your research projects, please add details of any publications which involve the use of cohort data on the feedback form at www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/feedback.
Scottish children have a wider vocabulary and a better understanding of colours, numbers, sizes and shapes at the age of three than youngsters in the other UK countries.
Northern Ireland is the safest and best part of the UK in which to bring up young children, a new study suggests.
Children in Welsh-English bilingual families appear to be rising to the challenge of mastering two languages before they reach school.
Almost one child in four is either overweight or obese at age three, a UK-wide survey has found. The study, the biggest-ever of its kind, measured the height and weight of 14,000 children aged three. Preliminary results reveal that 18 per cent were overweight and a further 5 per cent obese.
The scale and complexity of the child poverty challenge facing the Brown Government is highlighted by a new study of more than 15,500 three-year-olds.
Children born since the turn of the millennium are more likely to grow up believing that religious values are important if they have an older mother, new research suggests.
Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds are already up to a year behind more privileged youngsters educationally by the age of three, a UK-wide study has found.
A memorial service will take place on the afternoon of 9th July.
The charity Youth Support have kindly made Generations available to view on the web.
New data from MCS, BCS and NCDS is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service.
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