Parenting news: archive
‘Well, why haven’t my shirts been ironed?’
Guardian, 2 February 2008
Mothers are increasingly going out to work, fathers are doing the childcare - it looks like equality, but what about the chores? By Kate Hilpern.
Blame schools, not PlayStations
The Times (London), 30 November 2007
The Education Secretary has decided that the reason our children can't read well is because of computers. Yeah, sure. By Martin Samuel.
Expression management: Infant feeding and maternal anxiety
Battle of Ideas, 15 November 2007
By Charlotte Faircloth.
Echoes of the Satanic panic
spiked, 27 September 2007
Are families being torn apart on the dubious basis that animal cruelty and child abuse are linked? By Heather Piper.
Diary Of A Supply Teacher: ‘Any form of physical contact in schools results in cries of horror’
Independent, 26 July 2007
Parents warned to check private tutors’ references
Guardian, 5 July 2007
Local government officials have advised parents to be cautious about hiring private tutors and make sure they check their credentials.
Sports trials
Guardian, 3 July 2007
There are dangers as well as opportunities for children in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. Jerome Monahan reports
The gestation of stupidity
The Guardian, 21 March 2007
Advice to pregnant women to avoid alcohol and cheese is hysterical, gutless and off the mark. By Zoe Williams.
Home front
Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2007
No one would dispute the need for a centrally run agency able to sift through criminal records to ensure that a paedophile does not end up running a kindergarten, but, cautions Philip Johnston, the CRB is only as good as the information it is able to access.
Conservatives to renew their marriage vows
Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2006
The Conservatives today launched a bid to return marriage and family to the centre of public policy-making as they unveiled a nightmare audit of social breakdown in Britain.
Home Office refuses to apologise after 3,000 are wrongly labelled criminals
Independent, 22 May 2006
A criminal system failure
Independent, 17 April 2004
Huntley: Vetting loopholes ‘could allow another killer into a school’
Independent, 17 December 2003
They ask parents to help, then treat us like criminals
Independent, 15 September 2002
Vetting every volunteer will make reading lessons, after-school clubs and trips impossible until the backlog is cleared, writes Sonia Purnell.
Security checks for care staff on hold
Independent, 8 September 2002
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