Spill, an ‘empathy engine’ where students can anonymously share their problems with others in order to receive advice, has launched its first mobile apps for iOS and Android devices today, as well as expanding the reach of the service beyon…

Read Seeds of Empathy launches in England and the latest childcare & early years news & best practice on Nursery World The programme is aimed at capitalising the relationship that young children have with their family and early years pract…

In political terms, empathy is usually described as “caring about the needs and concerns of everyday people like you”, and is hugely influential because it logically follows that if someone cares about your needs, they’ll try to fix them.  T…

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