Parenting news: archive
Q&A: Vetting and Barring Scheme
BBC News Online, 11 September 2009
A Vetting and Barring scheme will begin operating from October 2009. Critics have branded the new rules as "insulting" and say they could deter volunteers. What other changes will it bring?
Stay at home mum: the most stressful job you can have?
Alpha Mummy, 9 September 2009
The most stressed-out workforce in Britain are stay-at-home parents, according to a study.
Chris Grayling: Vetting must be combined with common sense
Independent, 9 September 2009
CRB takes years for longest checks
Kable, 8 September 2009
The Criminal Records Bureau has revealed that the longest 'enhanced disclosure' checks take more than four years to complete.
Edlington: Do parents really matter?
The Times (London), 7 September 2009
While extreme abuse can damage children's development, the evidence that it is family life that conditions behaviour is very thin. By Daniel Finkelstein.
Blaming the public for social work’s problems
spiked, 7 September 2009
Social workers took a lot of flak after the Baby P case, but a government campaign to recruit more is hypocritical. By Ken McLaughlin.
How to catch children before they go feral
The Sunday Times, 6 September 2009
By Steven Swinford and Kevin Dowling.
Edlington and Baby P cases make parenting a key election issue
The Times (London), 5 September 2009
For the first time, rival plans for dealing with chaotic parenting and vulnerable children are to feature prominently in a general election campaign.
Chance encounter that ended in bloody horror
The Times (London), 4 September 2009
The Edlington victims did nothing wrong. Their error was merely to ride their bicycles into the field of vision of two boys.
ID cards: A new layer of compulsion
Guardian, 4 September 2009
By Henry Porter.
A sad lesson in ‘know thy neighbour’
The Times (London), 3 September 2009
Megan’s Law did not protect Jaycee Dugard. It helped create ghettos of abuse – and would do here. By Catherine Philp.
Wife killer studying to be taxi driver
Independent, 2 September 2009
CRB examines ID cards to boost accuracy
Kable (The Register) , 1 September 2009
Millions could be asked to provide identity card and fingerprint data to get a job under new systems being developed by the Home Office.
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