Parenting news: archive

Pupils shunning healthy canteens
BBC News, 7 July 2008
School meals might be becoming healthier, but there are warnings from nutritionists that too many pupils are still buying junk food in local shops.

Dad rules
The Sunday Times, 6 July 2008
By Andrew Clover.

Hundreds of crime checks were wrong
The Times, 5 July 2008
The Home Office said that errors at the Criminal Records Bureau were “regrettable” after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people had been wrongly branded as criminals.

Letters to The Telegraph
Daily Telegraph, 5 July 2008
Letters 5 July 2008.

Hundreds of innocent people ‘wrongly branded criminals’ by CRB checks
Daily Telegraph, 4 July 2008
Hundreds of innocent people have been wrongly branded as criminals by the Government agency set up to vet people working with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

School governors told ‘get insured’
The Times (London), 3 July 2008
England's 300,000 school governors are being advised to take out insurance to protect themselves against litigious parents.

Ed Balls: children should not be told about exams
The Times (London), 3 July 2008
Head teachers astonished after the Schools Secretary says the best way to prevent exam stress is to disguise the tests.

Letters to The Telegraph
Daily Telegraph, 2 July 2008
Letters, 2 July 2008.

Top police officer Barbara Wilding: gang life replacing family life
The Times (London), 2 July 2008
A leading chief constable has issued a stark warning that tribal loyalty has replaced family ties for an “almost feral” generation of angry young people

Higher education: Conviction rules A-grade student out of medical course
Guardian, 1 July 2008
Imperial College says trust is at heart of decision; MPs and charities brand move discriminatory.

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