The initiative, called BOOST – short for the Building Opportunity through Out of School Time – would invest $11.5 million into child care facilities to expand offerings for school-age children ...

New parents in Canada often struggle to find child care for their babies. But the school-aged care situation is just as fraught, or more so. After-care spots are difficult to secure, and before ...

A new study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries programme ...

Amid the worst U.S. measles outbreak in years, Vermont health officials have raised concerns about the state’s not-quite-high enough childhood vaccination rate.

(Children in the control group were cared for by relatives or family friends, enrolled in family child care homes or attended a public school preschool program or ... childhood experiences as infants ...