Emla Fitzsimons. The number of obese children and teenagers across the world has increased tenfold over the past four decades and it is estimated that about one in four 14-year-olds in the UK is either overweight or obese. It is…
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Mothers are not to blame for our childhood obesity crisis
Tagged with: child health, childhood obesity, longitudinal studies, working mothers
Posted in Social sciences and social policy, young people
Posted in Social sciences and social policy, young people
10 years on: why we still need better sex education for the digital world
Jessica Ringrose with Amelia Jenkinson and Sophie Whitehead of Sexplain. Last month new guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education for England was put out for consultation by the Department for Education. This draft statutory guidance is intended…
International School Meals Day: who gets a ‘proper’ dinner, who gets less and who gets nothing?
Rebecca O’Connell, Julia Brannen and Abigail Knight. If we had not included Portuguese young people in our cross national study of Families and Food in Hard Times*, the inadequacies in the free school meal system in England might not have…
Tagged with: food poverty, school meals
Posted in Education policy, International comparisons, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Education policy, International comparisons, Social sciences and social policy
‘I don’t want to have to apologise for wanting a career at 60’: staff development for older workers
Domini Bingham. Ageism is a dirty word, stretching across workplaces and society as a whole. Even if in principle equality and diversity are established by the law, the reality can be different, and a number of factors are in play.…
Tagged with: human resources, older workers, staff development
Posted in Employment and skills, Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Employment and skills, Further higher and lifelong education
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