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Children's sleep 'affects brain development'

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The BBC children's news programme Newsround has found that half of 9-11 year olds are not getting enough sleep. It questioned more than 1000 children about their sleeping habits.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, and Prof Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University, examine how children's sleep patterns affect their performance at school.

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