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Temporary childcarer demands red tape cut
15 April 2004
Acompany that provides daycare at many national
conferences and other events across the UK has renewed its call for the
Government to simplify legislation over mobile creches and holiday playschemes....
MPs may vote over smacking law
15 April 2004
A free vote may be allowed in the House of Commons over
whether to scrap the legal defence of reasonable chastisement that permits
parents to smack their children. At the...
The amount of money to be spent by the Government on every child in England
15 April 2004
The amount of money to be spent by the Government on
every child in England by the new children's commissioner - 24p - is only a
fraction of that being...
Nursery nurses use history to dramatise their pay claim
15 April 2004
Nursery nurses belonging to Unison dressed as
suffragettes in Dundee's City Square on 1 April to highlight their long-running
pay and re-grading campaign and indefinite strike, which began on 1...
Quote of the week
15 April 2004
'The post-Freudian view of child-rearing, in which the
business of the parent is to offer unconditional love and raise the child's
self-esteem, has done the child no favours, or society...
Nursery nurses and councils resume talks
15 April 2004
Talks resumed last week between Unison and local
authority employers in an attempt to settle the long-running nursery nurses'
dispute, as their all-out strike entered its sixth week of action....
Terrorism 'worries Scottish children'
15 April 2004
Four in five Scottish children aged between six and
eight know what terrorism is, and half of all their parents worry that their
children will be hurt in a terrorist...
Divorce reforms aim for greater child protection
15 April 2004
Family law proposals launched by the Scottish Executive
are seeking to give children greater protection when their parents split up.
Justice minister Cathy Jamieson said last week that steps were...
Work-life balance scrutinised
15 April 2004
The Government's future line on childcare has been
hinted at by MP Alan Milburn. The former health secretary said he would like to
see the Government produce a cross-departmental White...
