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New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14.

One in four teenage girls believe they are suffering from depression, according to a major study by University College London.

A team from the UK used data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to apply an alternative approach to the study of child language development. Quantile Analysis revealed that the association between factors such as poverty, early reading and TV and the outcome of language development is not equal across the population.

Regular bedtimes stop children from becoming overweight, a study by Ohio State University has found.

Education department tenders for mental health training contracts, which will help pupils see disturbing thoughts as buses

Research challenges "many assumptions" of current policy campaigners say.

Women today marry and have kids at an older age. Older mothers can have smarter kids, as a study shows.

The findings come from 10,000 young people's views and make worrying reading, say UK researchers.

Almost one in four teenage girls suffer from depression, a new study shows, in what experts have described as an “alarming” discovery. Researchers from the UCL (University College London) Institute of Education and the University of Liverpool found that nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of 14-year-old girls and nine per cent of boys the same age are depressed.

Three new projects set out to improve the mental health of teenagers and younger children

Charity disputes research which claims qualified nursery teachers have 'tiny effect' on children's learning