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Children, Young People & Families e-mail alert - Issue 175

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Issue 175

Mon Jun 25 2007

STORIES & ARTICLES

Poverty

More than 1.3m children are living in poverty, report claims (Independent news story)More than 1.3 million children in Britain risk "slipping beneath the radar" of Gordon Brown's anti-poverty targets.

Source: Independent Mon Jun 25 2007

Risk

330,000 users to have access to database on England's children (Guardian news story)Family campaigners raise concerns over security. Index is intended to avoid another Climbié case.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Social care/childcare/families & parenting

Birth certificates to name father (BBC news story)The government is planning to make the registration of fathers' names on birth certificates compulsory.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Head teachers to look after children in care (Times news story)The measure is a key part of the Government’s new Care Matters White Paper, published last Thursday.Source: Times Mon Jun 25 2007

Health

Teenage abortions hit all-time high (Telegraph news story)More teenagers are having abortions, fuelling a significant rise in the number of terminations in England and Wales.

Source: Telegraph Mon Jun 25 2007

Researchers issue new warning on smoking near babies (Guardian news story)Tiny babies of smokers have more than 5 times the level of cotinine - a chemical metabolite of nicotine.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

MPs to consider cut in abortion time limit (Guardian news story)Inquiry into impact of science on 40-year-old law. Examination of ethical or moral issues ruled out.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Girls could be offered cervical cancer jab by 2008 (Guardian news story)Vaccine will be available to 12-year-olds. Benefits will be felt for generations, says minister.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Housing

Glasto's field day for affordable housing (Guardian news story)There are 18 families living in homes with spacious back gardens and front lawns dotted on two sites in the 400-acre field.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Education

Disabled children targeted by bullies (Independent news story)Children with learning disabilities are twice as likely to face bullying as other youngsters.

Source: Independent Mon Jun 25 2007

Call for "post 9-/11" RE teaching (BBC news story)RE teachers must provide a more sophisticated understanding of the subject in a post-11 September world, Ofsted says.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Knighthood for phonics champion (BBC news story)A champion of the traditional teaching of reading has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Reading system goes into schools (BBC news story)Primary schools in England are being sent DVDs and booklets on how best to teach children to read.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Scots pupils score well in study (BBC news story)A study has found that children in Scotland are more likely to pass exams and do well after leaving school.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Pupils to devise bully sanctions (BBC news story)Pupils should have a say on punishments for bullying, new guidelines will say.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Class sizes to be cut for primary (BBC news story)Plans to cut class sizes for younger pupils are to be announced by Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Brown "planning science shake-up" (BBC news story)Investment in science would be the hallmark of education under Mr Brown. Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Union denounces pupil interviews (BBC news story)A classroom teachers' union is challenging the practice of pupils sitting on job interview panels.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Schools to help children in care (BBC news story)Education Secretary Alan says such children need stability to help them overcome their bad start.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Student numbers "may not decline" (BBC news story)The falling numbers of young people may not hit university recruitment as much as feared, analysis suggests.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Brown plans "world class" schools (BBC news story)The chancellor pledged more focus on discipline, setting by ability and to review literacy and numeracy teaching.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Low attainers "poor white boys" (BBC news story)Most of the persistent low achievers in England's schools are poor and white, and far more are boys than girls.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Schoolgirl wins fight for French (BBC news story)A teenager who took her campaign to study GCSE French to the prime minister has won her battle.

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

"Purity" ring case in High Court (BBC news story)A 16-year-old girl has accuse her school of discriminating against Christians by banning the wearing of "purity rings".

Source: BBC Mon Jun 25 2007

Crime & legal

Three schoolboys dead in "suicide pact" (Mail news story)Three 15-year-old boys from the same school have killed themselves in what is feared to be a suicide pact.

Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

Children's jail staff given wider powers of restraint (Guardian news story)The rules governing restraint techniques based on inflicting pain in privately-run children's jails are to be widened.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Undercover police smash paedophile ring posting live abuse online (Guardian news story)31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in Britain. Film files seized include babies being raped.

Source: Guardian Mon Jun 25 2007

Lord Falconer to discuss family courts (Express news story)He will address the new paper - "Confidence and confidentiality: Openness in family courts - A new approach".

Source: Express Mon Jun 25 2007

"Why are you stabbing Mummy?" girl cries as mother is knifed 145 times (Mail news story)A girl of ten watched in horror as her mother was stabbed 145 times, a court has heard.

Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

Witnesses saw man force boy, 9, into car boot (Times news story)A boy was snatched off the street by a man who put tape around his mouth before bundling him into the boot of his car.

Source: Times Mon Jun 25 2007

Culture, media & sport

Outrage over Eastenders plot about baby being cut from mother's womb (Mail news story)The BBC has received nearly 200 complaints after showing a pregnant woman being tortured on EastEnders.

Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

General

Seven children die as US bombs Afghan school (Telegraph news story)Seven children died when American aircraft bombed a religious school in an attack against the Taliban.

Source: Telegraph Mon Jun 25 2007

"Vile" computer game using image of Bulger kidnap withdrawn from sale (Mail news story)'s mother has attacked the game after it used the haunting image of her son. Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

Children see their mother die on EasyJet flight (Mail news story)A mother of five died in front of her family after falling ill on a flight home from a holiday in Spain.

Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

Police investigate Madeleine "sighting" in Malta (Mail news story)Maltese police are investigating two reports that missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann has been sighted on the island.

Source: Mail Mon Jun 25 2007

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