The UK city of Liverpool is the focus of an experiment that brings families and schools together in an effort to build neighborhood networks to help vulnerable families.
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Latest findings from the national evaluation of Sure Start show a reversal: the UK’s flagship programme for disadvantaged children and their parents seems to have started working.MORE

A US-made campaign to curb cigarette smoking among young people in India has become entangled in the cultural aspects of the country’s attitudes to tobacco.  MORE

Trials of an in-school anti-bullying programme suggest it may be worthwhile to concentrate efforts on creating a peaceful learning environment rather than entirely on tackling the behaviour of the individual bully or his victim.MORE

The boy who broke your teenage heart, the girl who drove you to drink or poetry - did it ever occur to you that they might have abused you? New approaches to preventing inter-parental conflict and family violence suggest they might.MORE

Prevention Action conference coverage this spring included a visit by senior researcher Vashti Berry to the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Denver, USA.MORE