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
Education: Early-years writing lessons 'do no good'
Sunday 13. of July 2008By: The Guardian
Teaching children as young as three to write short sentences and use punctuation has little effect on their literacy skills later on, according to research which raises new questions about the government's plan for a curriculum...
Pupils need to spend less time on computers and 'do more art and craft to improve brainpower'
Saturday 12. of July 2008By: The Daily Mail
The decline of traditional art and craft skills is threatening children's intellectual development, a report claims today.
Boys and girls, don't come out to play
Friday 11. of July 2008By: The Guardian
Night time is being made a strictly child-free zone in Redruth. We seem to be forgetting that young people have rights too
Children get an outside chance of learning the real art of play
Thursday 10. of July 2008By: Yorkshire Post
Children haven't had the best of press in recent weeks. More of them are obese than ever before, the rising problem on knife crime threatens to turn many into victims and even when it comes to the very basic tests, the failure...
Nursery children 'lack communication skills'
Thursday 10. of July 2008By: The Independent
This article is from March 2007
Children are arriving for full-time primary school lessons weak in language, literacy and communication because teachers are spending too little time on the three Rs in the early years of their...
John Bercow: Children's speech problems could lead to criminality
Tuesday 08. of July 2008By: The Daily Telegraph
Thousands of children with untreated speech problems are at risk of ending up unemployed, experiencing mental health problems and involved in crime, a government review has concluded.
Nutritious porridge pays off years later
Tuesday 08. of July 2008By: Yahoo News
A nutritious diet in early childhood provides a developmental edge that may not be apparent until adulthood, according to a long-term study of Guatemalan villagers released on Monday.