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
Despite damage, many schools reopen in Myanmar
Monday 02. of June 2008By: Yahoo News
As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward — at the gaping hole in the roof.
No to curriculum for the under-5s
Tuesday 27. of May 2008By: The Times
Sir, Schools should be encouraged to protest over the imposition of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (report, May 26)
Schools in revolt over under-5s curriculum
Monday 26. of May 2008By: The Times
A powerful coalition of England’s leading independent schools is demanding that the Government scale back its new national curriculum for the under-fives, claiming that it violates parents’ human rights by denying them the...
Pre-school literacy targets ‘are too ambitious and should be dropped’
Thursday 22. of May 2008By: The Times
An influential panel of experts set up to advise on government policy for the under-5s is demanding radical changes to literacy targets for preschool children, which they describe as “overly ambitious for most children”.
Early learning 'goals' condemned
Wednesday 21. of May 2008By: The Press Association
The new national curriculum for babies and toddlers will turn nurseries into formal schools where young children are drilled to learn to read and write, MPs have been warned.
Commerce in schools put under spotlight
Monday 19. of May 2008By: The Guardian
An inquiry ordered by the schools secretary, Ed Balls, into the impact of the commercial world on children is to investigate the government's own policies of encouraging schools to link up to businesses and setting up sponsored...
Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby
Sunday 18. of May 2008By: The Independent
Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural problems, according to authoritative research.