From spinach pancakes and sweet potato jack-o-lanterns to apple monsters and pumpkin muffins, these playful recipes offer a festive alternative to a sugar-heavy Halloween. Halloween may be built around sweets, but it does not have to be a sugar-heavy affair.…
Official-looking figures show 12,848 people aged 16 to 34 were claiming Personal Independence Payment for an anxiety disorder after receiving the benefit for up to two years. Recent official-looking analysis of disability benefit claims in England and Wales suggests that…
Researchers will train nearly 200 clinicians across three US states to assess autism, with the largest study of its kind aimed at easing specialist shortages and accelerating support for children. Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have won a $7…
Quiet, still behaviour is often praised in classrooms, but it can hide the exhausting effort some autistic children make to suppress traits that help them regulate and learn. In classrooms, the smallest behaviours can carry the biggest assumptions. A child…
European curricula increasingly promise inclusion, enjoyment and lifelong activity, but new research finds that familiar sports and teaching practices still dominate pupils’ experience. Physical education in Europe is being asked to do far more than it once did. According to…
Feeling better is only one part of recovery: athletes should rebuild strength, control and sport-specific load tolerance before returning to competition. Returning to sport after an injury is seldom a matter of counting down to a fixed date. A knee…
A study across 11 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services found modest improvements in behaviour and resilience, but no clear reduction in anxiety, depression or stress. A new study published in European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry suggests that social prescribing…
Canada’s longest-running measles outbreak in decades has ended after more than two months without a linked case, but the country faces at least another year of monitoring before it can seek to restore elimination status. Canada’s longest-running measles outbreak in…
Average waits for nursery places have lengthened even as thousands of childcare centres close, with demand for public provision rising fastest in major cities. South Korea is facing an unusual squeeze in childcare: fewer children are being born, yet parents…
Inpatient psychiatric care is designed to stabilise immediate crises, while residential treatment offers longer-term therapy and support once a teenager is safe enough to leave hospital. Parents trying to distinguish between a mental hospital and residential treatment for a teen…
