It's raining, you're late for school, and the children's wellies come out of the cupboard for the first time in months. But do they still fit? Why the welly check matters, what to look for in children's wellies and socks, and how retailers can turn a rainy-morning scramble into something better.

Your skin is your largest organ. In Part 2 of our Preparing for a baby series, I look at chemicals in pregnancy: what goes on your body, from skincare to the clothes you wear for nine months, what the evidence says, what it doesn't, and the simple swaps both parents can make.

It's Infection Prevention Week. The Lullaby Trust's new guide helps parents ask visitors to wash their hands and not kiss the baby, and brands can help share it.

Preparing for pregnancy starts before the baby. In Part 1 of a three-part series, I look at what the research says about weight-loss jabs, Botox, fillers, food and plastics before conception, why it's a shared responsibility for both parents, and what I'd love to see change.

Product recalls keep rising and enforcement is intensifying, so the question is not whether it could happen to your brand, but whether you could respond well if it did. Here is why every children's product brand needs a product recall plan, what a good one looks like, and how parents can check whether something they own has been recalled.

AI is arriving in children's products faster than parents' trust in it. Half of parents are sceptical, regulators are moving, and the brands that win lead with safety, not the letters AI. Here is how to bring AI toys to market in a way parents will actually trust.

In 2026, 37 UK recalls hit children's craft sand and sand art kits over asbestos, from Hobbycraft to Asda. Nobody added it on purpose: it is a natural contaminant that routine toy testing never screened for. Here is why it happened, and the practical supply-chain steps that keep it out of your products.

The EU's new Toy Safety Regulation will require a digital product passport on every toy. For brands early in their journey it is a chance to embed good practice from the start, rather than reverse-engineer it later. Here is why passports must be third-party verified, why not to build one in-house, and how to make it a marketing tool.

Which? found 150 potentially unsafe baby products on Amazon, Etsy and TikTok Shop, and the BTHA found 90% of marketplace toys fail UK safety tests. On Shein and Temu, almost every children’s product tested failed. Here is what is driving the surge in unsafe children’s products online, why a safety mark is no longer proof, what the coming UK reform means for brands, and what parents should look for before they buy.