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
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
Free instruments for poor children
Sunday 15. of June 2008By: The Guardian
Children living on England's poorest estates will be provided with musical instruments and taught for free how to perform works by composers such as Bach and Beethoven.
Scotland to be 'named and shamed' by UN over child welfare failures
Monday 12. of May 2008By: The Scotsman
SCOTLAND will be "named and shamed" in a damning report to a United Nations watchdog for its failure to improve child welfare and tackle teenage pregnancies – five years after it was warned to make urgent improvements.
Brown needs grassroots help on aid
Monday 05. of May 2008By: The Guardian
So what went wrong? How could it be that all those high hopes were dashed? What happened to that hunger for change? Don't worry, this is not another post-mortem examination of Labour's dismal showing in the local government...