Parenting news: archive
Cutting ContactPoint is the easy part
spiked, 9 August 2010
Of course the dismantling of the ‘database state’ should be welcomed, but it’s naive to believe that a new era of freedom will automatically follow. By Tim Black.
Breastfeeding should be ‘the law’, says supermodel
BBC News, 3 August 2010
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen says that all mothers should be made to breastfeed their babies for the first six months of their lives.
DfE response to public comments on the coalition agreement on families and children
Department for Education, 30 July 2010
We welcome the comments made in response to the families and children agenda set out in The Coalition: Our Programme for Government.
Early intervention: Key to giving disadvantaged children the opportunities they deserve
Department for Education, 28 July 2010
An independent commission into early intervention, which aims to ensure that children at greatest risk of multiple disadvantage get the best start in life, will be chaired by Graham Allen MP, confirmed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith and Children’s Minister, Sarah Teather, in an announcement today.
Summer camp plan for every teenager
The Times (London), 22 July 2010
Hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds are to be sent on summer camps at a cost to the taxpayer of up to £1,400 a head under an ambitious national citizen service to be launched by David Cameron today.
Swedish-style free schools may increase social divide - study
Guardian, 21 July 2010
Ed Balls fears plan will create 'form of social apartheid' and undermine local authorities.
How free should children roam?
Sunday Times, 11 July 2010
Relaxed or just plain lax? Free-range children may seem the perfect way to parent but it can meet with huge criticism. By Margarette Driscoll.
The baby blues that won’t go away
The Times (London), 10 July 2010
Americans are calling it ‘parental dissatisfaction’. But mums and dads are being told to stop their whinging and be thankful. By Viv Groskop.
Stay-at-home mothers: ‘We don’t care about having it all’
The Times (London), 10 July 2010
They’re young, smart, educated – and all they want is to stay at home and have babies. Meet the women for whom caring matters more than a career. By Sarah Harris.
Shoesmith speaks out over treatment in media
Children & Young People Now, 7 July 2010
Sharon Shoesmith, former director of children's services at Haringey Council, has spoken out for the first time to denounce the way she was demonised in the media following the death of Baby Peter.
Funding for Change4Life campaign to be cut
Children & Young People Now, 7 July 2010
The government has announced plans to withdraw funding from Change4Life, the national campaign to tackle obesity among children and families.
Review of Early Years Foundation Stage
Department for Education, 6 July 2010
Children’s Minister Sarah Teather today asked Dame Clare Tickell, Chief Executive of Action for Children, to carry out a review of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) so that it is less bureaucratic and more focused on young children’s learning and development.
Free our streets from the fretting of the nanny state
London Evening Standard, 6 July 2010
A couple are reprimanded for letting their children cycle to school alone: their common sense should prevail. By Simon Jenkins.
Hail the heroic parents who let their children cycle to school
Daily Telegraph, 5 July 2010
The couple who have shown faith in their children – and London's streets – should be applauded, not hounded, says Boris Johnson.
I’m sorry, but breast-feeding is a bit creepy
spiked, 5 July 2010
A former breastfeeder says of course mums should be free to nurse in public, but why do so many of them want to? By Nancy McDermott.
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