Jamie Oliver and Steven Gerrard have joined forces with leading figures in health and education to ask the Government to fight obesity through cookery...

PE lessons are putting girls off sport and making them feel self-conscious or uncomfortable, new research suggests. Sport is too competitive, with ...

We can't let ourselves be consumed by the panic about technology and blame it for the all the challenges, problems and stresses of modern parenting and childhood. We have to accept and embrace the role technology plays in our lives and help children to learn how to use it appropriately and enjoyably and when, crucially, to switch it off.

The percentage of children who are obese in their final year of primary school is rising, with almost one in five now obese. Data for England from ...