News & Links
All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
Children: victims in the marketplace?
Tuesday 15. of December 2009By: David Buckingham
t's easy to accuse commerce of corrupting childhood; but our report shows issues like obesity and sexualisation are complex
The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them
Tuesday 15. of December 2009By: Jackie Kemp
Ask children instead of ignoring their feelings, says report
Children on TV need better protection, says Ed Balls
Tuesday 15. of December 2009By: Jessica Shepherd
Shows such as Wife Swap put children into stressful situations, he said, and existing laws governing the appearance of youngsters on television are outdated
Teach five-year-olds to beware of advertising, says government inquiry
Monday 14. of December 2009By: Jessica Shepherd
Companies 'increasingly try to exploit schools' as part of the commercialisation of childhood
Disney offers millions of parents Baby Einstein video refunds
Wednesday 28. of October 2009By: Julie Henry and Philip Sherwell in New York
Disney is offering millions of parents refunds on its best-selling Baby Einstein learning videos in an apparent admission that they do not boost infants' intelligence.
We need a mature look at the risks television poses to the young
Wednesday 28. of October 2009By: John Siraj-Blatchford
The issue is not just how much TV children watch, but how they watch it
Guest commentary: We must restore the magic to kindergarten classrooms
Saturday 24. of October 2009By: Susan Westley
Remember kindergarten? It felt like a magical place filled with singing and dancing. Overflowing with letters and words and stories about wild things. You were the architect of your world, building houses, roads and castles with...