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TES magazine, May 22 2009
Leave it to dad

Community Care, May 20 2009
Family support services continue to struggle for funding and commitment

The Guardian, May 19 2009
Majority of families with disabled children face prejudice, says survey

Daily Telegraph, May 7 2009
Nearly 3 million children in poverty in Britain

The Guardian, May 2009
Alcohol and young people

The Guardian, May 1 2009
Fewer health visitors for children in south

Daily Telegraph, May 1 2009
One health visitor to 900 children, study shows

BBC, May 1 2009
Health visitor 'postcode lottery'

 

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The Guardian, April 21 2009
Children in care: Experts fly in to help tackle crisis

The Guardian, April 7 2009
Meet the parents

The Times, April 2 2009
Growing up with a sister makes people more balanced

The Marketer Magazine, March 2009
Webwise kids

The Times, Monday March 30 2009
Cut in maternity leave to give fathers more time off

The Times, Tuesday March 3 2009
Teen sex: should you allow sleepovers?

Children and Young People Now, Monday February 23 2009
Independent body to handle education complaints

The Times, Wednesday February 18 2009
Gordon Brown 'will miss targets on child poverty'

Children and Young People Now, Thursday February 12 2009
Child health strategy to boost health visitor access

The Guardian, Thursday February 12 2009
Help for parents in poor areas to improve child health

Marketing Week, Thursday February 5 2009
ASA set to regulate online promotions

Nursery World, Thursday February 5 2009
Restrict online marketing, says family body

Brand Republic, Monday February 2 2009
Report slams wish lists for toys on children's websites

Children and Young People Now, Monday February 2 2009
Parenting experts call for e-wish list ban

Daily Mirror, Thursday January 30 2009
Are you getting the benefits you are entitled to as parents

Sunday Express, Sunday January 25 2009
Help us get justice for Britain's children

The Times, Wednesday January 21 2009
Children spending half as much time in class as they do looking at screens

Children and Young People Now, Tuesday January 20 2009
More men needed in childcare jobs

BBC, Tuesday January 20 2009
Call for more male nursery staff

The Times, Tuesday January 20 2009
Home education 'can be cover for abuse and forced marriage'

Daily Mail, Thursday January 8 2009
Give new fathers a year's paternity leave, says Clegg

askamum.co.uk, Tuesday January 6 2009
Top money saving tips from parents

The Guardian, Monday January 5 2009
School-leaving age may rise to 18 in effort to tackle unemployment

 

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askamum.co.uk, Tuesday December 30 2008
Money worries are depriving parents of sleep

The Times, Thursday December 25 2008
Festive spending tradition starts to disappear

The Times, Friday December 19 2008
Ed Balls opens his heart to agony aunts at relationship 'summit'

BBC, Thursday December 11 2008
Unicef child study disputed by UK

Nursery World, Thursday December 11 2008
Flexible working rights put back on agenda

The Guardian, Wednesday December 3 2008
Brown moves to slow repossessions with Queen's speech mortgage help

The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 26 November 2008
Britain was at its best in the 1950s

The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 26 November 2008
Mothers need me-time, too

Third Sector, Wednesday 19 November 2008
How the Parenting Fund supports local projects

The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 12 November 2008
One in three parents lies awake worrying about finances

Sunday Mirror, Sunday October 26 2008
Children missing out on billions of child maintenance

The Daily Telegraph, Friday October 24 2008
Dr Tanya Byron: Children will be victims of credit crunch as families feel the pinch

The Daily Telegraph, Friday October 24 2008
Trevor Phillips: Families will suffer more if Government retreats on flexible working

The Guardian, Wednesday October 22 2008
Double Indemnity

Daily Mail, Wednesday 8 October 2008
Pity the loving grandparents who are cut off by divorce

The Daily Telegraph, Friday 3 October 2008
United Nations orders Labour to stop reality TV shows exploiting children

The Daily Telegraph, Thursday 2 October 2008
EU to offer 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave

BBC online, Thursday 2 October 2008
Why don't you call your mother?

The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 30 October 2008
White working-class pupils eat most junk food, claims children's minister

The Observer, Sunday 28 September 2008
Working mums keep families happy

The Times, Tuesday 23 September 2008
How young is too young to be home alone?

The Observer, Sunday 14 September 2008
Mothers admit: we do have a favourite child

ITV, Tuesday 2 September 2008Parents are being given advice on how to spot whether their child is in a gang

The Guardian, Wednesday 6 August 2008
Two into one won't go: Cambridge survey shows new doubts over working mothers

24dash.com, Monday 4 August 2008
Homes fit for families report highlights 'emotional turmoil' caused by overcrowding

The Daily Telegraph, Monday 4 August 2008
Parents too serious about fun and games

The Times, Thursday 24 July 2008
Talk to your 11-year-old about sex

The Independent, Wednesday 23 July 2008
The truth about daddy day care

Daily Mail, Tuesday 8 July 2008
Family debt has doubled in one year as borrowers take more and save less

The Guardian, Monday 7 July 2008
Government to launch family finance action plan

Financialadvice.co.uk, Monday 7 July 2008
Britons feeling 'less well off

BBC, Wednesday, 2 July 2008
UK life costs 'at least £13,400
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The Times, Thursday 29 May 2008
Fostering a little more care

The Times, Thursday 24 April 2008
More children are suffering from mental health problems, says report

BBC, Friday 18 April 2008
Call for junk food ad clampdown

The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 16 April 2008
Crunch brings generations closer in '3G' homes

BBC, Saturday, 5 April 2008
Families in meltdown, judge says
resolution, Saturday, 5 April 2008
High court judge warns family breakdown is as big a threat to national life as global warming at conference for family lawyers

The Guardian, Friday March 28 2008
Rising divorce tide threatens 1 in 2 couples

ePolitix.com, Tuesday 25 March 2008
Tories to unveil education reforms

The Daily Telegraph, Monday 17 March 2008
Teenage rows 'make for happier families'

The Observer, Sunday 16 March 2008
Why a row a day is good for teenagers

The Independent, Tuesday 11 March 2008
The anxiety epidemic: Why are children so unhappy?

The Guardian, Monday 10 March 2008
'It isn't about punishment'

icWales.co.uk, Monday 10 March 2008
Schools teach social skills as family dining disappears

Daily Mail, Friday 22 February 2008
A quarter of all children aged four and five are 'obese or overweight', study shows

The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 20 February 2008
Climbdown on plans for flexible working

The Daily Telegraph, Friday 15 February 2008
Labour push mothers back to work, say Tories

BBC, Friday 15 February 2008
Brown considers training payments

Daily Mail, Tuesday 12 February 2008
The sandwich generation: Cash squeeze for couples who have ageing parents and young children

BBC, Tuesday 12 February 2008
Calls to ban 'anti-teen' device

Daily Express online, Friday 8 February 2008
Whatever happened to British family values?

Sunday Herald, Sunday 3 February 2008
Regulators urged to protect infants on reality shows

Council of Europe, 1 February 2008
Council of Europe will launch a Europe-wide initiative to ban corporal punishment

Children&YoungPeople Now, 23 January 2008
Home-school links: Councils engage parents

Children&YoungPeople Now, 23 January 2008
Tories criticise special needs structure

icWales.co.uk, 12 January, 2008
Do we really need any more champions?

The Guardian, Wednesday 26 December, 2007
'Broken Britain'. The year that was: 2007 was the year when Britain appeared to come bottom in every league table of wellbeing

NorthLondonOnline, Friday 21 December 2007
Action on health visitor shortage

The Guardian, Wednesday 12 December, 2007
'We don't like children in this country'. Interview with Hilton Dawson, Parenting Academy chair

The Guardian, Tuesday 11 December, 2007
Non-resident parents struggle to get information about children's education. Includes a quote from Mary MacLeod

The Independent, Monday 26 November, 2007
Child database plan under attack following missing discs debacle

The Guardian, Monday 5 November, 2007
Why Ofcom needs much more bottle - Mary MacLeod
See also the items from the British Journal Review and the Telegraph on 16 October, below, and the letter, from FPI and others, on the same subject

British Journalism Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2007
For the sake of the children - Fiona Millar

The Guardian - Comment is free, Monday 22 and Wednesday 24 October
Articles by Yvonne Roberts and Lynsey Hanley on the Families and Neighbourhoods survey

Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 16 October, 2007
Bringing Up Baby is 'dangerous' say experts

The Guardian, Tuesday September 11, 2007
Crack down on inequality

The Guardian, Sunday September 2, 2007
Children who cannot escape the poverty trap

Times Online, Saturday, 11 August 2007
Media-proof your kids

The Guardian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007
UK holidays "rip off for families"

The Guardian, Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Partners to get marriage-style financial rights

The Guardian, Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Food manufacturers target children on internet after regulator's TV advertising clampdown

The Guardian, Wednesday, 25 July 2007
£1bn boost for after-school clubs

The Guardian, Monday, 23 July 2007
Miliband: time to stop knocking the young

The Independent, Sunday 22 July 2007
Fat: a middle-class issue

The Guardian, Wednesday 18 July 2007
Government's advice to parents: make sure your child plays conkers

The Guardian, Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Sure Start failing ethnic minorities

BBC, Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Love, marriage and... tax breaks?

 

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The Guardian, Friday, 22 June 2007
Using restraint on young offenders

The Guardian, Friday, 22 June 2007
Former youth justice chief attacks rule change on restraint

The Telegraph, Thursday, 21 June 2007
Fathers choose children over careers

Channel 4 News, Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Child emotional problems on the rise

The Independent, Sunday, 17 June 2007
The parent trap: Britain's high-fliers who refuse to fly the nest

The Scotsman, Sunday, 16 June 2007
Work holds back dads' parenting

The Times, Wednesday, 13 June 2007
I don't blame the (middle-class) parents

Children Now, Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Early years: Home visits vital to engage parents

The Times, Monday, 11 June 2007
Children who fall behind by age three

BBC, Thursday 7 June, 2007
When should children walk alone?

 

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Sutton Trust, Wednesday 30 May, 2007
Ballots in school admissions

ePolitix.com, Tuesday, 29 May, 2007
Cash to boost disadvantaged families

BBC, Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Support staff 'do midwife tasks'

The Scotsman, Monday 28 May, 2007
Number of children who cycle falls 25% amid parental fears

The Guardian, Wednesday May 23, 2007
Problems ahead for Blair's other 'babes'

Daily Mail, Wednesday May 23, 2007
The 'granny nannies' who save parents £50bn a year

BBC, Monday 21, May 2007
£340m package for carer families

The Telegraph, Tuesday May 15, 2007
Six months paternity leave plan for fathers

The Guardian,Monday May 7, 2007
Early-years support for parents would reduce youth crime

The Telegraph, Thursday May 3, 2007
Children 'need lessons in happiness'

 

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The Guardian, Monday April 30, 2007
Friends of the family

BBC, Saturday, 28 April 2007
My policy was misguided, PM says

The Telegraph, Saturday 28 April 2007
I've been tough on crime: now we have to nip it in the bud

BBC, Monday 23 April 2007
Ration TV for children, MPs urged

Daily Mail, Sunday 15 April 2007
Bid to save health visitor service

The Observer, Sunday 15 April 2007
Mothers miss a 'friend' as health visitors decline

BBC, Sunday 15 April 2007
Health visitors 'lottery' claim

Metro, Tuesday 10 April 2007
Race divide on single parents

Department of Health,Tuesday 3 April, 2007
Putting mothers and babies first - a new vision for Maternity Services

Directgov, Monday 2 April 2007
Top stresses for parents in 2007 revealed: work/life balance, child obesity and unemployment

DfES, Monday 2 April, 2007
New disciplinary powers lay down the law for school trouble makers

 

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HM Treasury, Thursday March 29, 2007
Chancellor sets out increased support for children and families

BBC News, Tuesday 27 March 2007
Why child poverty is so hard to beat

BBC News, Tuesday 27 March 2007
More UK children live in poverty

The Guardian, Thursday March 22, 2007
Package to lift 200,000 children out of poverty is welcomed but more investment is vital, say family groups

ePolitix.com, Wednesday March 21, 2007
Children focus of Brown's last Budget

Cabinet Office, Tuesday March 20, 2007
New data shows excluded families must get personalised support programmes – Families At Risk Review begins

Daily Mail, Tuesday March 20, 2007
Women 'set up' to fail by landing jobs with troubled firms

The Guardian, Monday March 19, 2007
Pledge for 'personalised' public services

Directgov, Thursday 15 March 2007
Department for Education and Skills recognises 'Every Parent Matters'

The Guardian, Thursday 15 March 2007
Ministers warned of pitfalls of scrapping CSA

Children Now, Wednesday 14 March 2007
Opinion: Debate - Is a lottery the fairest way of allocating school places?

The Fabian Society, Wednesday 14 March 2007
Taking class out of the classroom

BBC News, Wednesday 14 March 2007
Abortion 'right to know' rejected

The Guardian, Wednesday March 14, 2007
Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why

The Times, Monday March 12, 2007
X Factor children will risk Cowell barbs

The Telegraph, Thursday March 08, 2007
Family policy opens great divide

The Guardian, Tuesday March 06, 2007
Baby does best with dad off work, study finds

BBC News, Tuesday March 06, 2007
Ofsted finds early years weakness

BBC News, Monday March 5, 2007
Single parents 'must find work'

The Telegraph, Saturday March 3, 2007
School places lottery will hit house prices

The Herald, Thursday March 1, 2007
Women and working

 

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The Herald, Wednesday February 28, 2007
To demonise divorced dads is a distraction

BBC News, Tuesday February 27, 2007
Smacking unacceptable to parents

BBC News, Tuesday February 27, 2007
Johnson opposes marriage 'bias'

The Guardian, Tuesday February 27, 2007
Fathers told: do more for your children

The Telegraph, Tuesday February 27, 2007
Johnson plays down role of marriage

The Independent, Tuesday February 27, 2007
The family seems a populist issue, but it is one that politicians should ignore at all costs

The Guardian, Monday February 26, 2007
Queen of Routine lashes out at her liberal childcare critics

The Observer, Sunday February 25, 2007, 2007
Row over family values splits Cabinet

The Guardian,Saturday February 24, 2007
You don't know the half of it

Children Now, Wednesday 21 February 2007, 2007
Opinion: Debate - Should more parents have a legal right to flexible hours?

London School of Economics and Political Science,Tuesday February 20, 2007
Independent review urges major rethink on social housing

The Telegraph, Monday February 19, 2007
Council hands adoption cases to child charity

BBC News, Wednesday February 14, 2007
UK is accused of failing children

Daily Mail,Thursday February 8, 2007
Back-to-work pressure DOES hit family life
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The Times, Tuesday January 30, 2007
We're all good enough mums

The Guardian, Tuesday January 30, 2007
Daycare believers

Nursery World, Wednesday January 24, 2007
Council to offload daycare

Community Care, Monday January 22, 2007
Respect areas to tackle antisocial behaviour named

Daily Mail,Wednesday January 17, 2007
Demand for state boarding schools soar as parents work overtime

The Guardian, Wednesday January 3, 2007
The new year wish list

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The Guardian, Monday December 11, 2006
The brands have turned us into a nation of addicts

The Independent, Monday December 11, 2006
Family values are back in the political arena

The Telegraph, Monday December 11, 2006
We all know family breakdown is destroying us. Don't talk, fix it

The Herald, Monday December 11, 2006
Parenting lessons' for new families

The Observer, Sunday December 10, 2006
Bring back Victorian values, says key Tory

The Guardian Monday December 4, 2006
The politics of parenting
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The Guardian Wednesday 15 Nov 2006
Listen to mother

The Telegraph Wednesday 15 Nov 2006
Will nobody listen to mother?

The Guardian Tuesday 14 Nov 2006
Hi-tech toys offer no educational gain, say researchers

The Telegraph Tuesday 14 Nov 2006
The nanny state school for good parenting

The Sunday Times 13 Nov 2006
Educational toys? Just give toddlers your old phone

The Observer Sunday 12 November
Honor Rhodes: Seven steps to successful parenting

Parents 'powerless to bring up their children'

Last updated: 11th September 2009 at 04:09:59