Sex education: family teaches more than school ever can

Mrs White's approach was to show the children an illustrated book in which a bearded Dane tackled Mrs Dane in a rather earnest way, recalls Michael White

How young is too young to learn about sex?

Now primary schools are going to have to teach children where babies come from. Shouldn't parents have some say?

Compulsory sex education for primary schools

Government review likely to say children must learn about human body and relationships

Child obesity: Council to ban takeaways near schools

Council plans to ban new takeaways opening within 400 metres of schools, youth centres and parks

‘I’d given up hope of finding my mother’

First person: He had always hoped to track down his biological family, but at 90 George Hall was living alone with no relatives left. Then a letter arrived ...

Pupils’ personal development ‘as important as maths’

Primary schools "should give equal weight to guiding children on healthy living, sex and drugs"

Competitive sport puts pupils off exercise, study says

Schools should cut down on competitive sport because it is undermining the government's drive to tackle obesity, researchers have warned

A more effective way of combating child obesity

Health inequalities are inextricably tied up with obesity in children - which is why the WHO's report is so important, says Anna Bawden

Teach primary school pupils about sex, say MPs

Cross-party group of MPs calls on the government to make advice on sexual health and relationships mandatory in all schools

Because they’re worth it

The children at Kids Company – some of them escaping drugs or abuse at home – are finding refuge in aromatherapy and acupuncture. Now hope is arriving from another unlikely source: Vogue's beauty director. By Stephanie Merritt