Family Mood

07/06/2023

Arms over shoulders, smiles breaking across fresh faces, marker-pen messages scrawled on white shirts.

07/06/2023

Funding for dedicated school staff to support pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland has been cut in half.

05/06/2023

The loving parents of a child with a rare brain condition that affects one in 100,000 hope to create a community for people dealing with complex medical needs.

Daryl and Tom's nine-month-old, son Oakley, has lissencephaly, external, which means his brain's neural circuits have not formed.

"We don't know if he will be able to walk, to talk, and it's the simple things that people take for granted like whether he will be able to say mum and dad", Daryl said.

Oakley, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has to be fed by a tube and cannot reach or grasp for things.

05/06/2023

A club that aims to improve the outcomes and self-esteem of children has secured short-term funding after fears it would close last January.

05/06/2023

Mental health unit to open two beds for Welsh mums

04/06/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65761476

From 28 June, parents on universal credit can claim up to £1,630 childcare for two or more children.

04/06/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65786858

Quinten has a severe allergy to dairy, egg, soya and nuts and "feels like the odd one out".