Children

Unhappy teachers threaten strike over Spennymoor school shake-up 26th March 2018   Exclusive by Catherine Priestley Chief Reporter (Sedgefield)   HEAD: David Stone, interim headteacher at Whitworth Park School in Spennymoor, where

Surge branded ‘yet another disastrous consequence’ of lack of social housing as campaigners warn ‘cramped, unsuitable’ temporary accommodation can have ‘devastating’ impact on people’s lives   May Bulman Social Affairs

  The World Health Organization distinguishes four types of child maltreatment:physical abuse; sexual abuse; emotional and psychological abuse; and neglect.   Child sexual exploitation: How the system failed- By Bethan BellBBC News Share this with

The Conservatives have sunk to a new low taking food away from children in schools.   For some children, this is the only hot meal they get during the day!

The One Post of the Day………………………………   The Children’s Society says plans to means test free school meals under universal credit will create a ‘cliff-edge’ where many families are better

Cost of raising a child See how much it costs Prepare for having a baby               Raising a child is exciting but can be

    IFS forecast that 37% of children will be in relative poverty by 2022 would see all progress made in the last 20 years undone      A young

Ninety children taken into care each day, figures show By Hannah Richardson BBC News education and social affairs reporter 12 October 2017     Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Ninety children are

7-Year-Old Asks Jezza: ‘When Will You Be PM?’   A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn when he will become prime minister during his tour of Tory marginal seats

Middle-class parents damaging their children by not being able to say ‘no’   ‘Mollycoddling’ and ‘helicopter’ parenting leaving primary school children poorly behaved and ill-prepared for real life, expert warns

Child Poverty: Not Just Being Poor   PB Socialist Party of Great Britain   Child poverty in Britain is at its highest level since 2010 (Guardian 16 March).   Around 100,000

Our Education System Is In Need Of Revival, For The Sake Of Mental Health   IN THE wake of teachers’ union NUT publishing what the Conservative manifesto means for the

Election 2017: Conservatives’ free school breakfast pledge ‘costed at just 7p per meal’   The party pledged £60m for free school breakfasts in their election manifesto –    but experts

May’s plan to end free school lunches ‘to hit 900,000 struggling families’ Move could undermine key Tory target of helping families that are ‘just about managing’, as concerns grow over

May called ‘lunch snatcher’ over plans to scrap free school meals Will May go down in history as the ‘lunch snatcher?’ Credit: PA   The Lib Dems have nicknamed Theresa May

The Scandal Of The Three Million Starving Children MAY2017 Thursday 11TH posted by Morning Star in Features   Recent reports by The Trussell Trust and the all-party parliamentary group on hunger revealed that

Labour Will Feed All Primary Kids And The Rich Can Pay APR2017 Friday 7TH posted by Peter Lazenby in Britain Corbyn’s plan to charge private schools VAT to pay for free meals HUNGRY

A Third Of Sure Start Centres Shut Under Tories APR2017 Wednesday 5TH posted by Morning Star in Britain TORY promises to be the “most family friendly government we’ve ever had” rang hollow yesterday

Why Parents Drink The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick. So he dialed the employee’s home phone number after

The Secret Life Of 5-Year-Olds: Eva Has Become The Internet’s Favourite Feminist ‘What’s important for girls when they grow up?’ ‘Vote, definitely.’  17/02/2017 10:41 | Updated 3 days ago 960   Amy Packham  

  More money should be invested in looking after the health of the UK’s children, the report said   Child health in the UK is lagging behind that of most

Former staff at top boarding school Christ’s Hospital arrested in sex abuse investigation Christ’s Hospital charges fees of £31,500 a year  Henry Bodkin 6 November 2016 • 8:39am   Police

British pediatrician sexually assaulted 19 patients Wed Nov 2, 2016 3:4AM Michael Salmon, a former pediatrician, stands trial for sexually assaulting 19 young patients during the 1970s and 1980s.  

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:   Why did God make mothers? 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2.

   Don’t bring children into the world until JC is PM-   The Radical-28th August 2016-     Parents Getty   Birth rate drops to the lowest ever   by

As a major policy decision,  Fathers4 justice ………..   The Radical- 14th August 2016-   ……should campaign to persuade the Courts   to only award settlements to the children,  

HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that

“Adoptive Parents Don’t Love Their Children the Same Way Biological Parents Do”   David Cameron bids to speed up adoption process- 2015 Children should be placed in loving homes as soon

Marxist blogger who wrote about his terminal cancer dies aged 16   Parents pay tribute to Max Edwards, who wrote The Anonymous Revolutionary blog about modern Marxism Max Edwards wrote

  ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS An Elementary School Teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them

  David Cameron’s mum’s job has been AXED     as Tory cuts close children’s centre she works in   Mary Cameron has even appealed for the Mirror to step

Tories scrap free meals for nearly 3,000 primary schools Ministers have withdrawn funding which enabled small schools to provide children with free hot meals, claiming the measures were “always temporary.”

England’s youth ‘worst at literacy & basic math’ in developed world – report     © Luke MacGregor / Reuters 2171 Literacy rates among young people in England are the

Jobless 16- to 24-year-olds condemned to poverty   A LACK of well-paid jobs and affordable homes is throwing young people into poverty, a damning report published today finds.   Young

“THIS ARTICLE IS RESERVED” ………………………..   FOR THOSE (CHILDREN)   WHO HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT    

 Westminster hiding true scale of child poverty, says Scottish justice secretary              © Reuters                                                           220208         The British government is “sweeping the issue of child poverty under the carpet,”

Fathers 4 Justice   Having a father is a human right.   No child should be denied their human right to a father.   “We stand for the human rights

Almost half of children have been bullied at school   ALMOST half of all children have been bullied with most of the abuse happening at school, a study revealed yesterday.

Video: New York police officer points gun at teens over snowball fight                               A police officer from New Rochelle pulls gun on the teenagers involved in a snowball fight.

11-year old criminal tells court that bankers are his role model (not satire!) (not satire – it’s the UK today!) An 11-year-old boy in Shepton Mallet – found guilty on numerous

Children Act 2004 Act making provision for services provided to and for children and young people and for the establishment of a Children’s Commissioner theguardian.com,              Monday 19 January 2009

On Human Rights Day let’s talk about raising the age of criminal responsibility    Children of 10 in England and Wales are held criminally responsible for their actions. That can’t be

C  U B A Havana. November                               19, 2014   Cuba: “Zero Tolerance” to injustice Lissy Rodríguez For the Cuban State and civil society, crimes related to people trafficking and other forms

The Real Meaning of Nursery Rhymes     Sex, death and cruelty. Chris Roberts, the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme, tells Debbie Elliott what

Uzbekistan: cotton harvest enslaves teachers and students   3 October 2014 An Uzbek child picking cotton. Photo by Ecouterre   Global action demands end to forced labour in Uzbek cotton