Parenting news: archive
Disclosure checks to be extended
TES, 6 November 2009
But doubts raised over whether wider vetting will really protect more children.
Nursery abuse parents get choice
BBC News Online, 6 November 2009
Parents whose children may have been abused by nursery worker Vanessa George will be allowed to choose to find out if they were victims, a judge has said.
Council used terror powers on school place mother
The Times (London), 6 November 2009
Jenny Paton has taken Poole Borough Council to court for spying on her family for three weeks over school application.
Mandatory sex lessons for every 15-year-old
The Times (London), 6 November 2009
Announcement that sex education to be made compulsory prompts fury from faith groups who will oppose the move.
Autism: moving beyond the quest for a cure
spiked, 5 November 2009
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges both those who want to cure and those who want to celebrate autism. By Dr Michael Fitzpatrick.
Sex education to be compulsory under age of consent
The Times (London), 5 November 2009
Under new laws parents will lose their right to withdraw their children from sex education after they reach 15.
Childminders ‘forced out of business’
Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2009
Record numbers of childminders are being forced out of business, just 12 months after the introduction of Labour’s compulsory “nappy curriculum”, figures suggest.
Employers to take fingerprints for CRB checks
The Register, 3 November 2009
By Chris Williams.
Tom Sutcliffe: Let’s be clear about what we’re eating
Independent, 3 November 2009
Climb every mountain, taste the salt of risk
The Times, 2 November 2009
Letters by celebrities to their younger selves show that Prince Edward was right — teenagers should not live life in fear. By Libby Purves.
How Gordon Brown plans to tackle Britain’s anti-social behaviour problem
Guardian, 2 November 2009
The PM has promised a national network of intervention projects to cut anti-social behaviour, but do they work? One scheme in Dundee offers hope. By Amelia Gentleman.
Crazy law leaves a child out in the cold
Sunday Times, 1 November 2009
By Jenni Russell.
Schoolchildren visiting the elderly set to fall due to vetting fears
Sunday Telegraph, 1 November 2009
The number of schoolchildren who visit pensioners to keep them company in old age looks set to fall amid fears that both groups will have to be formally vetted for safety reasons.
Now even Sunday-school parents must be vetted
Sunday Telegraph, 1 November 2009
As many as 11.5 million adults - 20 per cent of the population - will be registered with the Government's new vetting scheme, report Patrick Sawer and Olivia Alabaster.
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