To the point ..

By Robin Balbernie, Nursery World, 5 July 2007

Government plans to teach parenting in deprived areas are missing the point, says Robin Balbernie.

It's hard to believe that I heard correctly, but I gather that the Government plans to appoint a regiment of psychologists and march them into areas of high social and economic deprivation on a mission to teach parenting. The press has labelled them 'supernannies', although it sounds more like a rapid response force, the psychological equivalent of the SAS, being parachuted in with all techniques blazing. Fortunately there are just not enough clinical psychologists to go around, and most of them would have more sense...

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