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8 hours 'not enough' sleep for children

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Children aged between 9-11 years old are not getting enough sleep, a questionnaire by BBC Children's news programme Newsround has found. It asked more than 1,000 children about their sleeping habits with half saying that they did not get enough sleep and a quarter answering that their bedtime was 10pm or later.

Dr Paul Gringras, consultant paediatrician who runs the children's sleep clinic at Guys and St Thomas' hospital, London, examines the findings.

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