Parenting news: archive
Mother-to-be is ordered out of a pub by staff
Daily Mail, 31 March 2009
A pregnant woman was refused a drink at a pub and then asked to leave by staff who said they were protecting her unborn child.
Family dies as police stop fire rescue
The Times (London), 30 March 2009
A pregnant woman, her husband and their son, 3, died in a house fire as police prevented neighbours from trying to save them.
Cut in maternity leave to give fathers more time off
The Times (London), 30 March 2009
Watchdog demands greater equality for parents.
‘There is no “right way” to rear a child’
spiked, 27 March 2009
On the tenth anniversary of the publication of her provocative book The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris talks to Nancy McDermott about prescriptive parenting, playground bullies and grandmotherly advice.
Spare us from state-regulated grannies
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
If grandparents are paid for childminding, the bureaucrats will inevitably want to regulate them. By Melanie Reid.
Primaries to teach children to speak properly
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
Pupils will be taught standard English for formal settings, under proposals to overhaul the curriculum for primary schools.
Condoms to be advertised round-the-clock on TV
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
Advertising Standards Authority wants to relax watershed rules in bid to cut the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.
Primary teachers to boycott Key Stage tests
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
Teaching unions join forces in revolt over controversial school tests in what is effectively an attempt to scrap them.
Councils used spy powers more than 10,000 times
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
Junior officials at England and Wales councils are making huge use of covert surveillance for minor offences, figures show.
Regulations put hot school meals at risk
The Times (London), 25 March 2009
The future of school meals is in jeopardy because only half of secondary schools are on course to comply with stringent government standards, catering leaders will say today.
Security flaws halt work on child database
The Times (London), 24 March 2009
Internet database designed to hold details of Britain's 11m children found to be failing the vulnerable, The Times learns.
Why I’m a reluctant granny
The Times (London), 24 March 2009
Being a new grandmother can be a mixed blessing. Valerie Grove feels the experience is too much, too soon.
Calls from suicidal young rising
BBC News Online, 23 March 2009
The number of "suicidal" children calling a Welsh helpline has risen four-fold in the past five years, a charity says.
Parents feel excluded by children
BBC News Online, 23 March 2009
Many parents feel "excluded" by their children's reluctance to tell them anything about their time spent at school, suggests a survey.
The shift: Sue Waldron, chief enforcement manager for the Child Support Agency
The Times (London), 23 March 2009
By Helen Rumbelow.
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