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...
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...
Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences
Tuesday 08. of July 2008By: The Guardian
The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem.
LAYING FOUNDATIONS FOR YOUNG LEARNING
Saturday 14. of June 2008By: South Wales Evening Post
Plans for a "radical" new curriculum for three to seven-year-olds have been clouded in controversy. Post reporter SHAUN GREANEY reports on what the plans will mean for our younger children.
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)