Parenting news: archive
Criminal checks on school exchanges:
Daily Mail, 20 October 2009
Now families hosting foreign pupils face anti-paedophile vetting.
The number of sex offenders working as charity trustees trebles
The Times , 20 October 2009
Growing numbers of convicted sex offenders are being appointed as charity trustees, bringing them into contact with vulnerable people, the Charity Commission has found.
Working fathers want more time with their children too, says report
Guardian, 20 October 2009
Working fathers are struggling to juggle the competing demands of family and career, according to an EHRC report that shows that they are just as uneasy with their work-life balance as mothers.
Working dads have a rethink – hurrah!
Guardian, 20 October 2009
A report revealing that men also want help to balance jobs and fatherhood is cheering reading for all working parents. By Joanna Moorhead.
The language barrier
Sunday Times, 18 October 2009
Foreign exchanges are under threat from stringent child protection rules. It’s the pupils who will suffer. By Sian Griffiths and Ed Cumming.
Why supermarkets are off their trolleys
The Times, 15 October 2009
Over-zealous retailers won’t let parents buy booze — or sometimes even cheese — any more. Why is mistrust our default? By Carol Midgley.
The weird world of Park Slope parents
spiked, 14 October 2009
Amy Sohn’s Prospect Park West captures perfectly the bourgeois-bohemian residents and overwrought moms of Park Slope in Brooklyn, but in the end its sharp, glinting satire might leave the reader cold. By Nancy McDermott.
Woman arrested in Vanessa George investigation worked in nursery
Daily Telegraph, 14 October 2009
Tracy Lyons, a woman arrested in connection with an investigation into child sex offences committed by nursery worker Vanessa George, had also worked in a nursery herself.
Revealed: Third woman arrested in Facebook paedophile probe also worked at a nursery
Daily Mail, 14 October 2009
Tracy Lyons - new woman accused over paedophile ring - was also nursery worker
The Times, 13 October 2009
A second woman nursery worker has been charged in connection with the paedophile ring involving nursery worker Vanessa George.
Reciprocal childcare allowed to continue
The Times (London), 13 October 2009
Ed Balls intervenes after jobshare police officers were told they were breaking the law.
Third woman charged over nursery paedophile ring
The Times (London), 13 October 2009
Tracy Lyons, a pregnant mother of eight from Porstmouth, was charged at the weekend in Vanessa George case.
New vetting rules threaten scout jamboree
Independent, 12 October 2009
Scout Association warns that controversial rules are 'impossible to apply'.
Is healthy, home-made baby food just pulp fiction?
The Times (London), 12 October 2009
New research shows that pesticides are present in the fruit and veg often fed to babies. But are supermarket purees really the best alternative? By Anna Shepard.
Worried US parents download paedophile maps before Halloween
Daily Telegraph, 12 October 2009
Thousands of American parents, fearful that their children will be abused by paedophiles while trick-or-treating on Halloween, have downloaded software to identify the homes of sex offenders in their neighbourhoods.
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