Reports & Documents
Below you will find a list of reports and a collection of documents on various subjects relating to childhood.
- Books & Publications
- Alliance for Childhood Newsletter
- Edition 3 November 2009
- Alliance for Childhood Newsletter No 2
- The first Alliance for Childhood Global Newsletter!
- Edition 1, September 08
- The Impact of the Commercial World on Children’s Wellbeing
- Report of an Independent Assessment
- CCFC Victory: Disney Offers Refunds on Baby Einstein Videos
- CCFC’s ongoing campaign to stop the false and deceptive marketing of baby videos has had an important success. We’ve persuaded the Walt Disney Company to offer a full refund to anyone who purchased a Baby Einstein DVD in the last five years. The refund
- Moving Towards Integrated Education and Care in Early Childhood Services
- Childcare and Children’s Health Vol 12 No3 September 2009
- CHILDREN IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN EIGHT AFFLUENT COUNTRIES
- THEIR FAMILY, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
- PROGRESS FOR CHILDREN
- A Report Card on Child Protection Number 8, September 2009
- Measuring Maturity: Understanding children’s ‘evolving capacities’
- CRIN
- Guidelines for Children on Child Online Protection
- Independent review of home education
- department for children schools and families
- Design for Play - A guide to creating successful play spaces
- Play England and government departments leading on play have published guidance which will help transform the design of play spaces in the future.
- Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation guide
- David Ball, Tim Gill and Bernard Spiegal
- Children, Adolescents, and Television
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Public Education
- A systematic review for the effects of television viewing by infants and preschoolers.
- Thakkar RR, Garrison MM, Christakis DA.
- Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children
- PEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 4 April 2004, pp. 708-713
- Extensive Television Viewing and the Development of Attention and Learning Difficulties During Adolescence
- Jeffrey G. Johnson, PhD; Patricia Cohen, PhD; Stephanie Kasen, PhD; Judith S. Brook, EdD
- The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Their Parents
- The Kaiser family Foundation
- Media Use by Infants and Toddlers: A Potential for Play
- Deborah S. Weber
- Prevalence, Correlates, and Trajectory of Television Viewing Among Infants and Toddlers
- PEDIATRICS Vol. 109 No. 4 April 2002, pp. 634-642
- School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior
- Romina M. Barros, MD, Ellen J. Silver, PhD and Ruth E. K. Stein, MD
- Futures Denied: Statelessness Among Infants, Children, and Youth
- Statelessness, or the lack of effective nationality, impacts the daily lives of some 11-12 million people around the world.
- Physical interaction and social engagement – essential ingredients for later learning success Sally Blythe
- The future of every society dwells within its children. When a society ceases to value the role of motherhood ... and the ... needs of children in pursuit of materialistic gain ... it mortgages not only its own economy but also its own future ...
- School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior
- Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Rose F. Kennedy Center, Bronx, New York
- The Good Childhood Inquiry
- The Good Childhood Inquiry was commissioned by The Children's Society and launched in September 2006 as the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood. Its aims were to renew society's understanding of modern childhood and to inform, improve a
- The Origins of Love and Violence
- Sensory Deprivation and the Developing Brain Research and Prevention
- The Serious Need for Play
- Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed
- Press conference by UNICEF Representative
- Source: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
- Department for Children, Schools and Families - The Play Strategy Reports
- The first national Play Strategy sets out the Government’s plans to improve and develop play facilities for children throughout the country.
- Preschool Education and Its Lasting Effects: Research and Policy Implications
- W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. for National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- UNICEF Report Card Series
- Reports which measure and compare the situation of children in countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD)
- The Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum
- Department for children, schools and families
- Sally Blythe's comments on Daily Mail Article about children not being able to tell their left hand from their right
- Let’s Include Parents in a higher vision of learning
- Report by Touch the Future
- OPENING EDUCATION - From research to design: Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
- Futurelab's report on the effectiveness of electronic toys
- Play and Exercise in Early Years: Physically active play in early childhood provision
- A report from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the National Children’s Bureau
- The Next Generation
- A policy report from The Early Years Commission - Centre for Social Justice
- The School Fringe
- What pupils buy and eat from shops surrounding secondary schools
- The Bercow Report: Services for Children and Young People with Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- Independent review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
- Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 2006
- Denied Status, Denied Education
- Children of North Korean Women in China - Human Rights Watch report
- Making Schools Inclusive: How change can happen - Save the Children's experience
- This report presents examples of our inclusive education programmes from 13 countries around the world.
- UK Children’s Commissioners’ Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- The Children’s Commissioners from the four nations of the United Kingdom on the state of UK's children
- Reading and the Autistic Child
- A report discussing the merits of movement in teaching autistic children to read
- Opening Their Treasures, They Offered Him Gifts
- The broken and unopened gifts of relationship in residential childcare
- Press Release from THE ‘OPEN EYE’ CAMPAIGN FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
- Report on Dr. Aric Sigman's talk on: ICT and the EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE (EYFS)
- Shortage of Therapy Provision for Disabled Children in Wales
- Report from the Children in Wales organisation (pdf file)
- The good Childhood - A national inquiry from the Children's Society
- Summary of launch report - the report is on the lower right hand side of the webpage - a direct link from here to the file does not work
- The good Childhood - A national inquiry from the Children's Society
- Evidence Summary Five: Health
- living on the edge of despair: destitution amongst asylum seeking and refugee children
- Child Destitution Report from the Children's Society
- Humans Appear Hardwired To Learn By 'Over-Imitation'
- Children learn by imitating adults--so much so that they will rethink how an object works if they observe an adult taking unnecessary steps when using that object, according to a new Yale study.
- Toy Action Guide - Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment
- An invaluable resource for parents, teachers, or anyone concerned about the commercialization of children's play. It contains information on how to select toys that promote positive play
- The Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, The University of Melbourne - Centre Newsletters
- Follow the link to access their list of newsletters
- Community Soundings
- The Primary Review regional witness sessions (The Primary Review: children, their world, their education)
- Play in the Early Years: Key to School Success
- A report by Bay Area Early Childhood Funders - pdf file
- Time for Play, Every Day: It's Fun — and Fundamental
- A fact sheet on the importance of play by the Alliance for Childhood (US) - pdf file
- UNICEF: An overview of child well-being in rich countries
- "A comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations." - pdf file
- Breakthrough Britain - Ending the cost of social breakdown
- Policy recommendations to the Conservative Party regarding family breakdown from the Social Justice Policy Group
- Severe Child Poverty in the UK
- A report by Save the Children (UK) on the worsening state of Britain's poorest families
- UK implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - NGO (England) alternative report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
- The Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has prepared its first draft of an alternative report
- Green Alliance Project Reports
- Children and their environment
- Alliance for Childhood UK Forum - 20th of March
- What is Happening to Britain’s Children?
- Childhood, Wellbeing and a Therapeutic Ethos
- Report on the Discussion Forum at Roehampton University in December 2006
- Detoxing Childhood October Conference Report
- The full report from the conference
- Perspectives on Play
- Report on February 2006 UK day conference
- Salzburg International Conference
- Report
- The Future of Childhood
- Proceeds from Brussels 2000
On Turning Ten
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache, or the headaches I get from reading in bad light—
a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.
You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten
the perfect simplicity of being one; and the perfect complexity introduced by being two.
But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit. At four I was an Arabian wizard.
I could make myself invisible by drinking a glass of milk a certain way.
At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.
But now I am mostly at the window watching the late afternoon light.
Back then it never fell so solemnly against the side of my tree house,
and my bicycle never leaned against the garage as it does today,
all the dark blue speed drained out of it.
This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers.
It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number.
It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.
-Billy Collins
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