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It is 22 years since that dismal piece of legislation, Section 28 , was passed by a Conservative government to ban the "promotion" -
whatever that was - of homosexuality in schools. Read More...
The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way
this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,
suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months
ahead. Read More...
Action for Children's latest report shows a disturbing rise
in the number child neglect cases. Perhaps as many as 1.5 million children suffer a form of neglect - and in England last year nearly 17,000
children were registered on child protection plans...
That should stick it to the dyslexia deniers. An inquiry led
by former Ofsted inspector Sir Jim Rose has prompted the government to help
children who are held back at school because of the learning difficulty. Read More...
First, the good news: sex education is to be made compulsory
in all state schools in England, reports The Guardian . Read More...
Sir Alan Steer, the government's school behaviour tsar
(yes, there is one), is concerned about the influence on pupils of celebrity
culture - if indeed culture is the right word. Read More...
Education, education, education. But not of the religious
kind, please. And especially not collective worship, also known as assembly. Read More...
For those of us who are concerned about the destruction of
the natural world, the plan to turn the Chagos Islands into a marine reserve on
the scale of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an exciting one. Read More...
If the point of A Good Childhood was to maintain the profile
of The Children's Society and provide the charity with some positive publicity,
it worked. Read More...
There was a certain paradox in David Cameron's choice of
word that sits at the heart of his poverty battleplan. Read More...
The police do it. The street cleaners of Wimbledon do it.
Even some politicians do it. Now school pupils are doing it too. Read More...
As conspiracies go, the great dyslexia con is a new one on
me. Read More...
He avoided urging the faithful to go back to their
constituencies and prepare for government, as David Steel once did, but Lib
Dems leader Nick Clegg did tell the party conference yesterday: "I can tell you
where we're headed - government."...