Mums living with learning and developmental disabilities tend to be less well-off, have chaotic home lives and report poorer mental health during their children’s early years.

Next up in our ‘Five minutes with…’ series of posts, is Emily Gilbert, our Survey Manager here at Child of the New Century.   What do you do at CLS? As a Survey Manager here at Child of the New Century, I’m responsible for everything to do with designing the surveys and visits to all […]

Young people who lose a parent are less likely to talk about their feelings, according to findings from Child of the News Century (CNC).

Young people who have someone at home making sure they finish their homework before taking part in other activities, such as watching TV, develop better language skills than those who do not.

Young people who eat breakfast and have a regular bedtime routine are less likely to become overweight or obese, according to findings from Child of the New Century (CNC).

Child of the New Century (CNC)  is one of the most important sources of information helping the UK government understand  the social inequalities faced by young people today.

Child of the New Century (CNC) is one of the birth cohort studies giving politicians, teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers and others information to improve services and policies to help people in the UK today.

Very few of you had tried smoking or drinking alcohol when we visited you at age 11.

Married couples benefit slightly from the occasional ‘date night’, according to findings from Child of the New Century. But going out as a couple isn’t all there is to a long-lasting relationship.

In a new series of posts, we’ll be introducing you to some of the people who work on Child of the New Century here at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). First up is our Research Data Manager, Vilma Agalioti!

Over the next year, all Child of the New Century (CNC) study members will be turning 16, marking a big milestone in your lives.

Boys should get more help to develop good language skills by the time they start school, according to findings from Child of the New Century (CNC).

The Government’s Child Obesity Strategy has used evidence from Child of the New Century (CNC) to underpin its plans to improve children’s health.

Children’s wellbeing is not related to their families’ household incomes – but their perceptions of how much they have relative to their friends can have an unexpected effect.

Participating in organised sports and joining after school clubs can help to improve primary school children’s academic performance and social skills, according to findings from Child of the New Century.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Morag Henderson has been appointed Acting Director of Child of the New Century. She is being supported by Professor Heather Joshi, founding Director of the study.

The Child of the New Century (CNC) team travelled to Brazil in March to talk to international researchers about how the study has helped us understand the lives of young people and their families.

Children are not active enough in the autumn and winter months. They also spend too much time sitting indoors compared to other times of the year. According to researchers from the University of Cambridge, children are most active during weekends in early summer, and least active during weekends in winter. The researchers used information on […]

Mother’s Day is celebrated on Sunday 6th March 2016 in the UK, and it’s a great time to reflect on how wonderful mums can be. Mums can play an important role in helping you learn to read, write, draw and paint, and can help you develop in many areas. Findings from Child of the New […]

Author and journalist Helen Pearson tells the story of the UK birth cohort studies, such as Child of the New Century, in her new book, The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

Save the Children’s Read On. Get On. campaign has used findings from Child of the New Century in work with local primary schools in Northern Ireland. Save the Children and Black Mountain primary school have been encouraging parents to come into class to read to their children. “We started asking parents to join their children […]

Should all children be allowed to delay their entry to school, or should that option only be available to those born in the summer?

Some parents worry that the disruption of moving home may be harmful to young children, but a new study of suggests that this is not necessarily so.

Professor Heather Joshi, the founding director of Child of the New Century (CNC), has received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), an honour given by the Queen in the 2015 New Year honours list.

Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education.

Do children born in the UK at the beginning of the new millennium have some reasons to be cheerful? Yes, it appears that they do.

Child of the New Century is helping to explain how financial hardship can affect children and families.

A lot of people believe that girls have better verbal ability than boys – but the latest findings from Child of the New Century show that’s not necessarily the case. At the Age 11 Survey, 13,200 Children of the New Century completed an activity where they were read sets of words and asked how they […]

Family sizes and structures are much more diverse today than they were in the 1960s, according to findings from the Age 11 Survey of Child of the New Century. Researchers at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies compared the Children of the New Century to a similar study of people born in 1958. They found that […]

There is no evidence that government investment in particular school structures or types – for example, academies, free schools or faith schools – has been effective in improving the performance of pupils from poor backgrounds, according to a review published today by the Institute of Education (IOE), University of London, and commissioned by the Joseph […]

Primary school pupils with special educational needs are twice as likely as other children to suffer from persistent bullying, according to new research published by the UCL Institute of Education (IOE). The study, the largest of its kind to be carried out in England, analysed information on more than 19,000 children and young people from […]

Living in a good neighbourhood, having lots of friends and getting on well with brothers and sisters are more important to children’s happiness than growing up in a two-parent home, according to findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. Researchers at NatCen Social Research analysed information on more than 10,000 seven-year-olds born across the UK in […]

Children with a disability are more likely to be born into disadvantaged families than their non-disabled peers, according to new findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).

More than half of children aged 11 say they are ‘completely happy’ with their lives, according to new findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Researchers analysed information given by more than 13,000 cohort members, who were born across the UK in 2000-2001. In the most recent survey at age 11, the children were asked […]

Children with irregular bedtimes are more likely to have behaviour problems, according to new research using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Researchers at University College London compared the bedtimes of more than 10,000 children at ages three, five and seven to behaviour reports from their mothers and teachers. They found that children who went to […]

Seven-year-olds in England are better at reading than their counterparts in Wales, according to new research using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Researchers from Cardiff University looked at the literacy development of children at ages three, five and seven in Wales, England and Scotland. The study found that English children make faster progress in […]

Children are less likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the UK than in the US, according to research using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Researchers at the University of Exeter found that 1.5 per cent of children in the UK were diagnosed with ADHD between ages 6 and […]

Half of all seven-year-olds in the UK are inactive for six to seven hours every day, according to new research using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Findings also show that only half of children are reaching the recommended daily minimum for moderate to vigorous physical activity. Girls, children of Indian ethnic origin, and those […]

Evidence from the 1958, 1970 and millennium cohort studies has been cited extensively by the Welsh Government in its first Early Years and Childcare Plan. Huw Lewis, Minister for Education and Skills, and Jeff Cuthbert, Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty, launched the plan yesterday at a primary school near Cardiff. The 10-year plan outlines […]

Going to bed at different times every night curbs children’s brain power and may affect health in adult life, suggests new research using Millennium Cohort Study data. Researchers at University College London (UCL) looked at whether bedtimes in early childhood were related to brain power in more than 11,000 seven-year-olds. They compared the children’s bedtimes […]

Children’s literacy, maths ability and behaviour are not on average harmed if their mothers go out to work during the first years of their lives, a leading researcher said today. Data from earlier UK studies had indicated a small disadvantage in literacy among children born before the mid-1990s whose mothers had worked in their early […]

Parents’ qualifications, social class and wellbeing have a bigger effect on their children’s development than poor parenting, according to researchers from the Institute of Education, University of London. A new study based on data from almost 14,000 seven-year-olds included in the Millennium Cohort Study has explored the link between children’s cognitive ability and their social and […]

August-born pupils achieve worse exam results, on average, than children born in September, simply because they are 11 months younger when they sit national achievement tests, a new study finds. Researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, the Labour […]