Parenting news: archive
Millions more to be subject to Enhanced CRB checks
Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2009
Employers will be able to ask for detailed background checks - including information founded on unproven accusations - on millions more workers under the next stage of the Government’s anti-paedophile database that comes into force on 12 October.
CRB checks ‘deterring school volunteers’
Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2009
Parents are refusing to work as volunteers in schools after being ordered to undergo criminal record checks, new figures suggest.
Michael Church: This plan misses so many key points about education
Independent, 8 October 2009
Right side of the tracks: What is the appeal of suburbia?
Independent, 8 October 2009
Created by the railways and hated for its cosy, mock-Tudor, allotment-keeping ways, suburbia and its values have shaped modern Britain. Michael Bywater peeps over the privet hedge.
To help children, start first with the parents
The Times (London), 8 October 2009
Families are ever more fragile. But new research shows when and how we can intervene to prevent the worst happening. By Penny Mansfield.
Catholic Church has “fundamentally changed” stance on sex abuse claims
Times Online, 7 October 2009
Nearly every parish in England and Wales now has an official to deal with allegations of child abuse.
Second thoughts: supporting teenage mothers
Guardian, 7 October 2009
Teenage mothers need support, not 'discipline', says Ofra Koffman.
New nursery paedophile shock as play centre worker pleads guilty to 12 child abuse charges
Daily Mail, 6 October 2009
Lessons in life at the forest school
The Times (London), 6 October 2009
Thousands of pupils in Denmark learn tree climbing not times tables. But this carefree life for the under-7s is under threat.
Weighing into family life - again
spiked, 6 October 2009
Obesity campaigners want all expectant parents to be weighed. We should tell them to get stuffed. Rob Lyons.
Convicted paedophile worked at play centre and nursery
Independent, 5 October 2009
Innocent or guilty in front of the webcam
The Times (London), 5 October 2009
The internet is not the problem. By Helen Rumbelow.
Civil liberties row as English and Welsh workers pay for chance of a job
Observer, 4 October 2009
UK government accused over loophole in criminal record checks on potential workers.
Battle of Ideas 2009
Battle of Ideas, 3 October 2009
A series of debates about the latest parenting controversies will take place at this London festival on 31 October and 1 November.
New Labour is like a hipster dad who just got heavy with his daughters
The Times (London), 3 October 2009
This Government has been like the worst kind of parent. We’re tired of swings from anything goes to everything’s banned. By Janice Turner.
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