Parenting news: archive
Home-schooling parents may face criminal record checks
Daily Mail, 30 November 2009
Parents vetted to check they’re not paedophiles before being allowed to Christmas carol services
Daily Mail, 30 November 2009
Schools vet parents for Christmas festivities
Sunday Times, 29 November 2009
Details will be checked against a database of people banned from working with children for sex offences and for other reasons.
Too much maternity leave hurts careers
Sunday Times, 29 November 2009
Study across three continents shows the more family-friendly a country tries to be, the less its women succeed in the workplace.
Ofsted ‘destroyed Baby P files’
Sunday Times, 29 November 2009
Whistleblower alleges the watchdog deleted draft reports from its computers that gave a highly favourable verdict on Haringey.
Abused by their own children
BBC News Magazine , 23 November 2009
Many parents are living in fear of their children, but are too ashamed to ask for help, says a leading British charity. Why? By Denise Winterman.
We all hate Ofsted, right?
Guardian Comment is Free, 23 November 2009
The regulator is a convenient hook for our anger, but really it's responding to our failure to take responsibility for children. By Michele Ledda.
Call me a spoilsport but I’m glad my dad wasn’t a lesbian
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
By Jeremy Clarkson.
Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low intelligence it is even harder. By Minette Marrin.
Bickering parents to get state therapy
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
Couples who squabble outside the school gates could be advised to take relationship counselling under a government initiative.
Tories to demand: are you married?
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
Shadow home secretary pledges that a Conservative government would make it a priority to raise the status of married life.
From Prague to Berlin, liberty will always owe youth
Guardian, 18 November 2009
Student activism has often fired resistance to repression – and it must urgently do so now. By Henry Porter.
Sure, she’s a good pianist – but has she been CRB checked?
Guardian, 17 November 2009
By Charlotte Higgins.
This election will be won at the school gate
The Times (London), 17 November 2009
Mum power matters. Politicians of all parties are lining up to test their family-friendliness with the voters on Mumsnet. By Rachel Sylvester.
Caring for elderly ‘should become a career’
The Times (London), 16 November 2009
Dame Joan Bakewell will tell ministers that role should be regarded as a profession and questions standards in care homes.
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