Children

A child car seat until 12 years or 135 cm, whichever comes first. The two approval standards, the rear-facing minimum, what changed with booster cushions, and the narrow list of legal exceptions.

Summer is upon us and it is time for fun in the sun and sand. When we want to cool off, most of us head for the pool or the beach. The water is warm and inviting and we love to swim the day away.

Babies and small children drown at home, in the bath and the garden, not in swimming pools. Drowning is also silent, and almost every practical measure follows from those two facts.

What determines how quickly a separation ends is whether the child knows to stay put and whether the adult tells staff immediately. Both can be arranged in five minutes before leaving the house.

Ten practical steps for planning a baby shower without the stress, from setting the date and sending invitations to ordering favours and recording who gave what.

Sold as sleep aids, but NHS guidance says not overnight and for twenty to thirty minutes at a time. What the randomised trial actually found, the ten per cent weight rule, the circumstances in which one should not be used, and why none of it applies to a baby.

Raw attainment largely measures intake rather than teaching, progress measures come with confidence intervals that decide whether a difference is real, and Ofsted replaced its single overall word with area-by-area report cards in November 2025.