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
Doctors urged to stop use of Ritalin for under-fives
Wednesday 24. of September 2008By: The Guardian
Ritalin, the controversial drug used to calm down hyperactive children, should not be routinely prescribed by doctors and never given to the under-fives, experts say today. They also advise that it should be given to older...
The biggest killers of under-fives in Katine: malaria
Sunday 21. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In the second of her three-part series on infant and child mortality in Katine, Sarah Boseley examines why malaria is responsible for over 40% of all deaths among the youngest villagers in the region
The biggest killers of under-fives in Katine: poor water and sanitation
Sunday 21. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In the first of three features examining the major threats facing under-fives in Katine, Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley reveals how poor water and sanitation, now being tackled by Amref, has led to disease and infant and...
Paracetamol linked to childhood asthma
Friday 19. of September 2008By: The Guardian
Children who are given paracetamol in their early years are more likely to get asthma, researchers say today at the end of a major worldwide study.
Alert issued over antibiotics risk to babies
Thursday 18. of September 2008By: The Guardian
Doctors are warned today not to give antibiotics to women at risk of premature labour because of an increased chance that their babies will suffer from cerebral palsy.
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...