From July 2026 the EU's BPA restriction reaches beyond baby bottles to weaning bowls, sippy cups and food pouches. Here is what maternity, baby and children's brands need to check before their next production run.

There is one subject our industry tends to talk about quietly, if at all. So here is the truth. The UK birth rate has fallen to its lowest level on record: 1.41 children per woman, down from around 1.9 fifteen years ago. Around 591,000 babies were born last year, compared with about 730,000 at the 2012 peak. That is roughly one in five fewer babies a year, in little more than a decade.