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Parents ‘dumping’ children on schools
5th May 2008 Ministers were yesterday accused of promoting a back-to-work culture where parents dump their children on schools and nurseries. A head teachers’ leader warned that plans for a massive expansion of childcare and a 50-hour week in schools encouraged parents to hand responsibility for bringing up their children to teachers. Mick Brookes said:…
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Tagged Beverley Hughes, Childcare, Day care, General Secretary, Liverpool, Mick Brookes
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Parents must say no
28th March 2007 Parents must have the courage to say no to children who eat too much or misbehave, says David Cameron. The Conservative leader was speaking as the Tories launched an inquiry into the quality of childhood in the UK following a Unicef report claiming that children in the UK have the worst quality of life in…
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Tagged Beverley Hughes, Conservative leader, Conservative Party, David Willetts, paranoia, Tory leader, UNICEF
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Teenage pregnancy still rising
Rise in both the under-15 and 16-18 age groups and the announcement that £20m sex education package will be launched. Yet again we see politicians defending their strategy for reducing the number of teenage pregnancies after new figures showed that conception rates among under-16s had risen for the first time since 2002. The government insisted…
Childcare costs rising
28th January 2009 The cost of nursery places has increased above inflation, making pre-school education a big drain on family budgets at a time of financial uncertainty.” The highest childcare costs were in London and the South East, averaging between £172 to £226 a week. The lowest were in the Midlands and the North of…
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Tagged Beverley Hughes, Childcare, Day care, Daycare Trust, food, National Day Nurseries Association, Nursery school, preschool, Purnima Tanuku, Scotland
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Academy to be launched to improve parenting
25th April 2007 A parenting academy is being launched to improve child-rearing skills. The £30 million Government initiative centre will be based at King’s College, London to train a ‘parenting workforce’ in promoting proven techniques to new parents. The academy will open in October and will give specialist training to people who work with parents in schools, nurseries…
New parenting academy launched
21st November 2007 The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners launched today will work directly with parenting practitioners to provide them with the high quality skills and knowledge they need to enable parents to deal with day to day challenges and give their children the best possible start in life. With the existing expertise of the Family and Parenting Institute, Parenting…
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Tagged Beverley Hughes, Breastfeeding, chair, Childhood, Family, Family & Parenting Institute, Family law, Hilton Dawson, Parenting, Parenting Institute, Sure Start
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Baby education is ‘absolute madness’
10th November 2005 Plans to introduce a new national curriculum for babies and toddlers are “absolute madness” parents’ groups have warned. Under the Childcare Bill, childminders would teach the curriculum to children ‘from birth’ until they start school. All three-year-olds in childcare in England would learn rudimentary maths, language and literacy. But the national Confederation of…
