Scotland wants to be the best small country in the world for children to grow up in. It's a great aspiration to set but as new figures show an increase in the number of children on child protection registers, with more than half under the age of five - is...

Parents often say that they wish babies came with an instruction manual. Our children's workers are taught that 'the baby is the instruction manual'. Babies are communicating with us from the day that they are born, and if we can understand their 'cues' - the movements and expressions that reveal...

If the government collected a pound for every word of commentary about the Budget, it could probably make a large dent in the deficit. I've decided not to add my voice to that commentary, but instead to set out a vision for a future budget or spending review. Whilst the...

This week I chaired an event on babies' rights. You can be forgiven for thinking that sounds a bit abstract and woolly because it does. But the shocking truth is that babies are eight times more likely to be killed than any other age group in childhood.

That single...