News
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
Ban TV to protect children's health, top psychologist tells EU politicians
Friday 03. of September 2010By: Daily Mail
TV should be banned for toddlers and severely rationed for other youngsters to protect their health and family life, a leading psychologist will tell MEPs today.
Technology in schools: Is the clock being turned back?
Saturday 03. of July 2010By: Mike Baker
Is the government's attitude to computer technology in schools taking us back to a "dark age" of chalk-and-talk?
Curse of the screen: PCs 'dull children's brains and should be banned until nine
Tuesday 15. of June 2010By: Laura Clark
Early exposure to computer screens in schools and nurseries is threatening the development of a generation of young children, a top psychologist warns today.
Watching TV 'makes toddlers less intelligent'
Tuesday 11. of May 2010By: Martin Hickman
Parents, beware CBeebies: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to new research.
Health and education concerns for TV-watching toddlers
Tuesday 11. of May 2010By: View London
Scientists have today warned parents that children who watch too much television could suffer later in life in terms of their health and education.
'Long-term harm' of too much TV for toddlers
Monday 03. of May 2010By: BBC News
The more TV a toddler watches, the higher the likelihood they will do badly at school and have poor health at the age of 10, researchers warn.
Facebook to announce raft of new child safety measures
Sunday 04. of April 2010Facebook executives have met with a prominent British child protection organisation this afternoon and are expected to announce a new raft of new safety measures imminently