Last month BOL Foods announced that it will be removing dairy from all of its products this June (following its drop of meat and fish in 2017), becoming 100 per cent plant-based and the first FMCG brand in the UK to do so. Anne Coates tried out some of their products.
Britax Romer has issued a voluntary recall for Dualfix sold between 3 November 2017 and 22 March, 2018. Car seats will be exchanged free of charge due to potential safety issue.
Working parents can use Tax-Free Childcare to pay for regulated holiday clubs during the Easter holidays. More than 55,000 registered childcare providers including school, football, art and tennis clubs have signed up.
Following a successful pilot last year, the #GiftaBundle campaign which redistributes good quality, outgrown baby and children’s clothing is rolling out across 42 Mothercare stores in the run up to Mother’s Day on 11 March.
SHREK THE MUSICAL® has arrived, stomping into 2018 with a critically acclaimed new UK and Ireland 24-venue tour until January 2019, arriving at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre this week.
A national campaign to help keep young children safe from sexual abuse has been launched by the NSPCC with the release of a new mobile phone game and the screening of a prime-timeTV ad.
With one week to go until its nationwide cinema release, STUDIOCANAL and Heyday Films are pleased to launch a brand new clip for PADDINGTON 2, featuring The Brown Family, Paddington, and a selection of his new pals!
CBeebies’ The Snow Queen ticket ballot opens on 11am on Tuesday 10 October, 2017 and will be open for one week only closing at 11am on 17 October. This year’s performance comes from the heart of the East Midlands at Curve theatre in Leicester.
There’s a whole world of food out there just waiting to be explored and Giraffe World Kitchen's passion is exploring the world, discovering these dishes and bringing them back home for you to try. And during the summer holidays Kids Eat Free!
The National Literacy Trust has today published research showing that children who enjoy writing and who write creatively outside school do significantly better in the classroom. However, the research also shows that far too many children are missing out on these benefits, as half of pupils (49.3 per cent) say they don’t enjoy writing outside school. The research is launched to mark the very first National Writing Day, a campaign coordinated by charity First Story to give children across the UK the opportunities and ideas to give writing a go and experience its benefits.
Angelena Boden is a counsellor specialising in interpersonal skills and conflict management. She is also a novelist whose books tackle conflict in relationships.
New research published today by the National Literacy Trust reveals that three-quarters of primary school children enjoy reading – the highest levels ever recorded by the charity. The research also highlights the link between enjoyment of reading and attainment, showing that the longer children keep an enjoyment of reading going, the greater the benefits are in the classroom: ten-year-olds who enjoy reading have a reading age 1.3 years higher than their peers who don’t enjoy reading, rising to 2.1 years for 12-year-olds and 3.3 years for 14-year-olds.
The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field has been announced as the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2017. Chosen from a shortlist of five titles in a search for the best book for under-fives that have been published in the past year, Oscar’s Book Prize is a celebration of children’s literature supported by Amazon and the National Literacy Trust.
