Parenting news: archive
So I say chin-chin to all you tiresome moralisers
Sunday Times, 20 September 2009
How marvellous to go through life eating and drinking and being raffish, and to die gently during a postprandial snooze. By India Knight.
Vetting row peer cashes in on holiday home
Sunday Times, 20 September 2009
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, has received more than £140,000 in expenses by saying a holiday cottage is her main residence.
Children under five “shouldn’t touch animals at petting farms”
The Times Alpha Mummy, 20 September 2009
If you take from parents the option of driving, through sluicing downpour, to a family-friendly farm, for a few hours of cheer in a cafe, and a bit of hot rabbit-fondling action in an out-building, you run the risk of driving us all onto funny pills and gin. By Caitlin Moran.
Paying poor foreign women for eggs is ‘a kind of prostitution’ says fertility expert
The Times (London), 19 September 2009
British couples who travel abroad for IVF treatment and buy other women’s eggs are engaging in a form of prostitution, a fertility conference was told yesterday.
Child protection and care checks
Guardian, 18 September 2009
Letters.
Conservatives commit to scrapping ContactPoint database
Children & Young People Now, 17 September 2009
The Conservatives have cemented their commitment to scrapping the controversial ContactPoint database after featuring the pledge in a policy paper designed to protect personal liberty.
Paranoia surrounding paedophiles ‘stops us taking pictures of our children’
Daily Mail, 17 September 2009
Paranoia surrounding paedophiles and terrorism is causing a 'creeping restriction' on the freedom to take photographs, a report warns today.
Police head queries vetting plan
BBC, 16 September 2009
The merits of the government's new vetting system for people working with children have been questioned by a senior police officer.
The road to vetting and barring hell is paved with good intentions
Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2009
The civil service has created a leviathan with the new vetting and barring system, writes David Blunkett.
Criminal vetting
The Times, 16 September 2009
Letters: Four valid Criminal Records Bureau certificates are not enought to satisy farcical levels of excessive bureaucracy.
Fixing ‘Broken Britain’?
spiked, 16 September 2009
Instead of ever-earlier state interventions in family life, we need an honest debate about how to safeguard children. By David Clements.
Where were the vetting critics three years ago?
spiked, 16 September 2009
The politicians and children’s charities now questioning vetting regulations are the same people responsible for their creation. By Josie Appleton.
Early intervention could save £486bn
Children & Young People Now, 16 September 2009
Failure to tackle social problems like family breakdown, drug abuse and mental illness, could cost the UK £4 trillion over two decades, a major report has concluded.
Vetting scheme curtails our freedom to help
The Times, 15 September 2009
Letters: The need to protecting our children’s innocence has become completely skewed.
This CRB-check paranoia won’t stop another Soham
The Times, 15 September 2009
I helped to catch Ian Huntley and I know these stupid rules would not have prevented his crimes. By Chris Stevenson.
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