More than one in five boys and one in seven girls have difficulty in learning to talk, according to research released last week by Jean Gross, England’s “Communications Champion&r

Obesity trends in children are levelling off, says the National Heart Forum in a new report. Hooray, we’re not going to be quite as fat in 2020 as we thought we were.

Sometimes statistics appear which leave you gasping. So it was when I read the news that 18 per cent of schools now offer “circus skills” as a school sport.

Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, has said that parents who look after each other’s children will not have to undergo criminal record checks and take childcare courses to make their arrangements legal.

One in ten white boys is leaving school with fewer than five GCSEs, the benchmark for basic secondary school education, according to figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in response to a Freedom of Information request.

Are there really 11.3 million adults in the UK who could pose a risk to children?

Statisticians at the Department for Children Schools and Families have been burning the midnight oil to reconcile two sets of crime statistics.

School league tables are worthless as a basis for choosing a school, and would be best left unpublished.

Did you know the Government has a Children’s Plan, aimed at making Britain the best place in the world to grow up? Neither did I.