Parenting news: archive
Adoption parties plan to place problem children
Sunday Times, 30 August 2009
'Parties' to be held to introduce would-be parents to hard-to-place children in radical move aimed at improving adoption rates.
Briefing: Population
Sunday Times, 30 August 2009
Baby boom time: The UK has recorded its biggest annual population rise for nearly 50 years, with a surging birth rate overtaking immigration as the lead cause.
The new baby boom
The Guardian, 29 August 2009
Britain is experiencing a population spike. Why? The Guardian visits Boston, Lincolnshire, the nation's fertility capital, where the average birthrate is 2.8 per woman
Birth rate pushes UK population to greatest increase in almost 50 years
Guardian, 27 August 2009
As population tips 61.4 million, birth and death rates overtake immigration as biggest growth factor for first time since 2001.
CRB vetting ‘out of control’ say LibDems
Observer, 24 August 2009
The Liberal Democrats claim that rising fees and increasingly laborious bureaucracy are deterring potential volunteers and employees from working with children and vulnerable adults.
Children’s care crisis as criminal vetting fees approach £600m
Observer, 23 August 2009
Almost £600m has been spent to check the backgrounds of people who work with children, it emerged last night, triggering claims the vetting system is in danger of spiralling "out of control".
The day I came face to face with our surveillance state
Daily Mail, 19 August 2009
By Vince Cable.
Letters
Independent, 15 August 2009
Bottle-fed babies being put ‘at risk’ due to lack of information for mothers
Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2009
The obsession with promoting breastfeeding could be putting babies health at risk as mothers are not being given enough information about how to bottle feed their children, according to researchers.
This is better than building your house upon the sand
Times Online, 14 August 2009
The Scripture Union’s beach mission still comes to Southwold every summer.
Stop the pregnancy scaremongering and let women make love in peace
Guardian, 13 August 2009
Britain is obsessive and dictatorial when it comes to motherhood. Yet we get more real help – and babies born – in France. By Agnès Poirier.
Baby P: another round of ‘prole porn’
spiked, 12 August 2009
After the tragic death of Peter Connelly, underclass-baiting offers a relief for pundits in search of a moral crusade. By Tim Black.
Safe pair of hands
Guardian, 12 August 2009
With millions of children playing the game every week, the Football Association's head of equality and child protection, Sue Law, tells Anna Bawden how vital it is to ensure that they are not at risk of harm or abuse.
Teacher claiming £1.2m ‘used daughter’s fingerprints to fool CRB’
Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2009
A teacher claiming £1.2million after winning a claim of racial discrimination is being investigated by police for allegedly using her daughter's fingerprints rather than her own for Criminal Records Bureau checks, a tribunal heard.
Baby P’s father to sue ‘negligent’ council
The Times (London), 12 August 2009
Child's father says he told social workers his son was at risk five months before his death after suffering violent abuse.
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