Midwives at a Subiaco hospital are seeing double after the births of eight sets of twins in the space of just one week.
Bethany Hiatt
WA’s children are increasingly vulnerable to poverty, homelessness and being kicked out of school, the State’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has warned.
Genius Childcare Centres has appointed voluntary administrators to its businesses across Australia, including three in WA, after dozens of staff quit over unpaid wages.
Rachel Fenner
A decade on, what hurts the most is the simplicity of how Riley’s life could have been saved and how many Australians are blind to the benefits of vaccines.
Christopher Dore
Dozens of staff at WA’s Genius Childcare Centres have resigned after months of issues around pay, superannuation and penalties.
It has been 10 years since Catherine and Greg Hughes last held their baby boy Riley, as he succumbed to whooping cough just 32 days after he was born.
Rhianna Mitchell
Gaming addiction is particularly prevalent in children with ADHD, autism, and anxiety disorders.
Andrew Leech
I want to be engaged, get to know other parents and stay in touch with the teacher but it’s all slightly overwhelming. Is anyone else on the same page?
Edwina Bartholomew
Regional and rural childcare centres are offering fly-in fly-out positions, accommodation and relocation incentives to attract staff amid a critical worker shortage which is forcing some centres to shut down.
Ben Elton, who begins a series of stand-up shows at the Astor Theatre this week, said big-tech companies had been allowed to operate without appropriate checks and balances and were destroying childhood.
Alison Wakeham
Australia’s leading after-school care service was slapped with a series of fines after it was revealed several children had managed to leave the premises without anyone noticing.
Harriet Flinn
An eight-year-old girl from Donnybrook has been recognised for her dedication to ending bullying in her school community.
Sofia Fimognari
Kids who skip breakfast are more likely to have poorer NAPLAN results than their breakfast-loving counterparts, new research has found.
Hannah Cross
Children exposed to their mother’s cannabis use during pregnancy and after birth are three times more likely to develop behavioural problems, new Curtin University research has revealed.
Claire Sadler
Half of Australian children and teenagers will be obese or overweight by 2050, an alarming study reveals.
Artemisia Blythe
The former political advisor shared the news on Sunday evening.
Ella Loneragan
A sneak peek of LEGO’s highly awaited Bluey series has just been released months before the range is set to hit shelves.
Zach Margolius
Every parent knows how important your kid’s choice of friends can be.
Kate Emery
Parents overwhelmed by messages telling them they are doing ‘screentime’ wrong should ditch the term and look at what their kids are doing on their screens - not how long they are on them.
Researchers are examining the potential link between low iron levels and conditions such as ADHD after data from 10,000 babies born at Joondalup Hospital has revealed concerning iron deficiencies.
Liam Murphy
Cost of living pressures are forcing more WA families to send their children to school without lunch, with one charity reporting a 77 per cent rise in the number of kids asking for food.
Dylan Caporn
Vance was four and a half years-old when a garden statue fell on him in a friend’s backyard, leaving him with tetraplegia. Now six years old, his family are fundraising for other sick kids.
Hundreds of children were injured, unaccounted for and locked in or out at WA childcare centres, with serious incidents at early learning centres soaring 50 per cent in five years.
Prolific sex offender and serial flasher Niaz Ahmed Ali will be released from prison in March despite using his dog to lure children to him at a playground in Mandurah.
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