Parenting news: archive
Paranoia has taken over child protection
The Sunday Times, 13 July 2008
Joyful innocence is being crushed by the spreading mantra of 'trust no one'. By India Knight.
Mother stopped from travelling with son in taxi to school - because she hasn’t had a criminal record
Daily Mail, 10 July 2008
A mother has been banned from taking her own son in a taxi to school - because she hasn't been screened for a criminal record. Jayne Jones wants to go with her severely epileptic son Alex, 14, in the taxi.
Mother prevented from taking own son to school because of criminal record checks
Daily Telegraph, 10 July 2008
A woman was prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn't been screened for a criminal record.
Children need risk to thrive as adults, says Dragons’ Den judge
The Times (London), 10 July 2008
The obsessive “safety-first” culture in schools will rob Britain of the next generation of entrepreneurs just when the country needs them most, Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo! Sushi, has claimed.
Mum’s police check for school run
BBC News, 10 July 2008
A mother is told that she must be police checked before travelling with her epileptic son to a special school.
Overstretched maternity units put mothers and babies at risk
The Times (London), 10 July 2008
Women giving birth are being admitted to maternity wards short of doctors and midwives as well as basic medical facilities, a review by the Healthcare Commission concludes today.
Mother applying for primary school job is wrongly branded ‘drug-dealing alcoholic’ in Home Office bl
Daily Mail, 9 July 2008
A woman who applied for a job at her local primary school was wrongly branded a drug-dealing alcoholic in a shocking Home Office blunder.
Operation Goodnight
The Times (London), 9 July 2008
Police in Redruth to impose 9pm curfew on teenagers during holidays.
I launched Childline to protect the most vulnerable - but unleashed a politically correct monster
Daily Mail, 9 July 2008
By Esther Rantzen.
Woman wrongly branded a violent alcoholic must give fingerprints, says CRB
Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2008
A woman wrongly branded a violent alcoholic and drug addict by the Criminal Records Bureau has been told she will have to allow police to take her fingerprints if she wants to clear her name.
Nursery guide to incipient racism
The Times (London), 8 July 2008
Children who reject foreign food may be showing signs of latent racism, a childcare guide suggests. Nurseries are told to watch children’s reaction to “a culinary tradition other than their own”. The guide is produced by the National Children’s Bureau.
Cameron tells the fat and poor: take responsibility
The Times (London), 8 July 2008
Tory leader says society is too sensitive to judge others as good or bad and pledges to speak out against 'moral neutrality'.
Appeal over bouncy castle ruling
BBC News, 8 July 2008
A couple found liable for damages for a bouncy castle incident that left a boy brain-damaged appeal against the ruling.
London’s teenage victims of violence
The Times (London), 7 July 2008
So far 19 young people have died violent deaths on the streets of the capital this year, many of them stabbed.
Waste not want not, Gordon Brown tells families
The Times (London), 7 July 2008
Families facing spiralling shopping bills were told by Gordon Brown yesterday to stop wasting food, as a government report said that Britons were throwing away groceries worth more than £1 billion a year.
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