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
These Olympian feats can inspire our obese nation
Jackie Ashley: The achievements of our sports stars can do more for our youngsters than any number of food education programmes
‘My body is wrong’
Should children who believe they are transgender be helped to change sex? Viv Groskop meets the parents and doctors in favour of intervention
What’s the best way to get pregnant?
Fertility treatment no more effective than recommendations on when couples should have sex
How to tell parents their child is overweight
Are we right to protect parents from negative terms such as fat and obese, asks Sara Gaines
Health: Official letters to warn parents if their child is obese or overweight
Department of Health announce plans to tackle obesity epidemic but avoid 'negative' words
Tanfastic? I don’t think so
Carrie Quinlan: What with schoolkids overdoing the fake tan, what's so wrong with just being the colour you are – even if it is grey?
The sex factor
Britain has the highest teenage-pregnancy rate in western Europe, but efforts to curb it through earlier sex education are enraging the rightwing press and making parents squirm. So how can schools get the balance right? Mary Braid investigates
Heart disease: US doctors back statins for 8-year-olds
Experts in UK, treating small numbers of high risk children, say wider use of drugs should be discussed
Experts want sex education from age four to cut teen pregnancies
Charities said children should be taught the names of body parts and about sex and relationships
Give four-year-olds sex education, say charities
Two leading sexual health charities are calling for children as young as four to be given compulsory sex education
The Well Baby Clinic is aptly named. If there’s anything wrong with your child they can’t do a thing to help
Zoe Williams: These clinics don't really do anything apart from make babies cry by taking all their clothes off and putting them in grocer's scales