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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
Robotic Children
Tuesday 16. of September 2008By: Nick Kettle - The Ecologist
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Our conveyor-belt education system is geared towards the production of clones and parrots, not imaginative, creative and curious human beings. Is it any wonder our children are...
Earlier, not better
Thursday 11. of September 2008By: The Economist
“Education, education, education”, trumpeted Tony Blair during his campaign to become prime minister. In 1997 state schools seemed in a parlous state, with crumbling corridors, poorly paid teachers and young children crammed into...
Britain vies with Mexico for education wooden spoon
Wednesday 10. of September 2008By: The Times
Children start their education at a younger age in Britain and have a longer school day than pupils in most developed countries.
Sold for £20: just two of India's million stolen children
Sunday 07. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In a country with 11 million abandoned children, the fate of those from loving homes who are kidnapped to order goes unnoticed. Many are sold for adoption, often to Westerners; others are trafficked into slavery or the sex trade...
Schools warned of pupils hooked on energy drinks
Wednesday 03. of September 2008By: The Guardian
Children are becoming dependent on energy drinks that have dramatic effects on their concentration and behaviour in schools, drug experts have warned.
Eat more cheese and avoid tap water, food industry tells pupils
Saturday 30. of August 2008By: The Guardian
Big business has been accused of misleading children by distributing educational materials to schools about pupils' diets which experts say are wrong and likely to encourage poor eating habits.
Poverty is UK's hidden child killer
Sunday 24. of August 2008By: The Guardian
Government has failed to tackle the epidemic of chronic illness and early deaths among the most disadvantaged in society, says a new report