Majority of parents don’t know how much exercise children need

Survey shows that 68% of adults are unaware of recommended exercise time

So British people aren’t socialising much? That doesn’t mean they’re lonely

A report links a reduction in going out with a decline in wellbeing. But social isolation, loneliness and solitude are different things, says academic Fay Bound Alberti

Students support disclosure of mental illness to parents

Two-thirds say problems should be revealed in extreme circumstances, research finds

UK among least family-friendly countries in OECD, survey finds

League table compiled based on parental leave and childcare levels puts UK in bottom third

Grant Robertson: ‘New Zealand’s prosperity is about much more than GDP growth’

The country’s finance minister on why his pioneering wellbeing budget is prioritising happiness in its spending plans

Sleep apps backfire by causing anxiety and insomnia, says expert

Neurologist says ‘metricising our lives’ is counterproductive when it comes to sleep

All change: how to leave the city and find a new career

As growing numbers abandon London and other expensive cities for a better quality of life, some are using the big move to start their own business

Crisis in Care: Who Cares? review – the horrors of austerity laid bare

This devastating expose met the people in need whose lives are being ruined by government cuts. Anything slashed by two-thirds is no longer fit for purpose

‘I’m such a big fan of the menstrual cycle!’ – the women asking whether it’s possible to have a better period

Exhausted with doctors not taking periods seriously, a new wave of authors is asking whether menstruation can ever be tolerable – even enjoyable

Most of us feel sleepy in the afternoon. Why can’t work fit round that?

Now a third of Britons are sleep-deprived, work should be more flexible, says André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour at the Cass Business School