One year on from the Olympics and Paralympics more than half the adult population is doing the recommended amount of physical activity, but worryingly more than a quarter are not doing even 30 minutes a week and putting their health at risk, Public Health Minister Anna Soubry has warned.
Only a third of boys and a quarter of girls meet the recommendation for at least 60 minutes of...
Spaces on hundreds of free, fun and exciting courses for young people as part of this year’s Summer Mix programme are filling up fast.
Over 1,200 young people aged 11 to 19 – or 11 to 25 for those with a disability or special learning needs - have already signed up to try something new during August. 120 of the 198 courses on offer are now fully booked.
Children will be going outside to learn as part of a major campaign to get them more in touch with the environment.
Desks and chairs will make way for grass, ponds and games outside during Empty Classroom Day, which also heralds the launch of the new Natural Connections programme.
Eight city schools have so far signed up to the three-year project, which is led by a partnership...
An international expert in marine debris says that school children will be a driving force in bringing about a sea change in attitude towards marine pollution, which has reached crisis proportions across the globe in the past decade.
Plymouth University professor, Richard Thompson, who is working on UN and EU projects to find solutions to ocean debris, believes children have a major...
The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England is calling for urgent action to develop children's resilience to pornography following a research report it commissioned which found that: a significant number of children access pornography; it influences their attitudes towards relationships and sex; it is linked to risky behaviour such as having sex at a younger age; and there is a...
Over a hundred early years settings, including nurseries and pre-schools are set to join the highly successful ‘Encompass’ scheme launched in Plymouth to support children experiencing domestic abuse in their homes.
The work is led by a partnership between the police, involving schools and Plymouth City Council, to ensure that teachers are informed of any reported domestic abuse...
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, the Elizabethan House and the Merchant’s House are all set for a fun half term filled with creative family activities and music.
Local folk band Tobacco Road will perform some of their favourite folk songs as visitors soak up the historic atmosphere in the Elizabethan House (2.30pm to 3.30pm on Tuesday 28 May) and the Merchant’s House (10.30am to...
Devon and Cornwall Police take DNA samples from 19 children every week, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (20 May 2013).
New research by the charity has found that Devon and Cornwall officers took swabs from 1,009 boys and girls aged 17 or under during 2011.
They included 18 primary school-age children – five 10-year-olds and 13 11-year-olds...
Families living in and around Rothesay Gardens will be clambering over piles of logs as they road test their new look play area.
The area has been given a wooden makeover and massive logs are now getting a new lease of life as monkey bars, see-saw, a climbing log tangle as well as toddler swings.
Youngsters at Shakespeare Primary and Brooke Green Centre for Learning helped...
