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April 2007

27 April 2007

New academy for parenting practitioners

Beverley Hughes, Minister for Children, Young People and Families has announced that the new National Academy for Parenting Practitioners will be provided by the Family and Parenting Institute, Parenting UK and King's College London from this October.

25 April 2007

UNICEF and the Department of Health release new leaflet on breastfeeding

UNICEF and the Department of Health have produced a new leaflet entitled Breastfeeding: Off to the best start providing mothers with information about feeding their baby.

25 April 2007

Caring for children research from AIFS

New research published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) reveals that children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are looked after by a carer from a different cultural background may encounter confusing or conflicting responses when in day care.

25 April 2007

Researchers find women effected more by working from home

Researcher Terry Hartig has found that women who work from home were more effected by the work/life overlap than their male counterparts.

25 April 2007

New research shows adults have difficulty telling when children lie

According to Leif Stromwell and colleagues writing in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, some adults are unable to tell when children lie.

23 April 2007

Rationing TV for children

The amount of time children spend watching television should be rationed to prevent health and learning problems, psychologist Dr Aric Sigman is to tell MPs.

18 April 2007

Report from SPRU: Child support policy: An international perspective

A new report from the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) has been published by the Department for Work and Pensions entitled Child support policy: An international perspective.

18 April 2007

New support for Commissioners of children's services

Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis, presented a new self-assessment tool for commissioners of children's and young people's health services, today. The new CD-Rom will allow commissioners, such as Primary Care Trusts, to asses their capability to deliver child and family focused services.

18 April 2007

Next steps for children in care

Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, has announced that the government will publish a white paper later in the year to take forward its ambitious plans for children in care. The announcement was made as the Department for Education and Skills published the response to the government's consultation on the green paper Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children in Care.

18 April 2007

ESRC study on homework and keeping children, parents and teachers together

A new interactive learning system which helps parents keep in touch with what their children are doing at school is proving to be a great success with children, parents and teachers, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research, based at the University of Sussex and the London Knowledge Lab, developed the 'HOMEWORK' interactive learning system which enables children between the ages of 5 and 7 to learn and practice Key Stage 1 maths using a range of multimedia technologies - both in the classroom and at home with their family.

16 April 2007

Family and Parenting Institute poll on health visiting

Health visitors are overwhelmingly popular and trusted by parents - yet parents face a post code lottery when it comes to accessing help from their health visitor, according to new evidence from the Family and Parenting Institute and a YouGov poll of parents with children under five.

11 April 2007

Social Trends 37

National Statistics has released the 37th edition of Social Trends. Among other things the publication notes that the "proportion of children living in lone-parent families in Great Britain more than tripled between 1972 and spring 2006 to 24 per cent".

10 April 2007

New report on local authority children's services

Ofsted report Narrowing the gap: the inspection of children’s services, has found that most local authorities are making a good contribution towards delivering better outcomes for the majority of children and young people.

10 April 2007

Flexible working for carers

2.6 million carers across the UK will now be able to benefit from the right to request flexible working.

03 April 2007

More support for victims of sexual violence

The government has outlined how it will further support for victims of sexual violence through better support facilities and improving the response from the justice system to such crimes through the publication of the Cross Government Action Plan on Sexual Violence and Abuse.

03 April 2007

New maternity strategy

Maternity Matters, the new maternity strategy launched by Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt will guarantee mothers to be that the NHS will provide them with a full range of birthing choices - including home births - as well as a midwife they know and trust to care for them.

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