Soaring cost of childcare
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No wonder it is expensive to bring up children. In January 2012, childcare costs were a whopping £63,099 of a total cost of raising a child until their 21st birthday of £218,000.
Children
Stop attack on Special Needs kids
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Children's Minister Sarah Teather has announced changes to provision for children with special needs. Despite her claim that this will create 'a more integrated and less bureaucratic system', the plans amount to a significant attack on support for the most needy kids, perhaps a new low even for this government's austerity drive.
Nottingham teachers fight five-term year plan
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Nottingham teachers struck for a second day on 17 March in their campaign of industrial action against the Local Authority.
"Keep the promise"/ end child poverty march
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Date:
4 October, 2008 - 13:30
Location:
Assemble at Millbank, London SW1; march to rally in Trafalgar Square
London socialist-feminist discussion group: Children's Rights
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Date:
4 April, 2008 - 21:30
Location:
Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Road, near Kings Cross
Description:
Children are human beings, but do we always treat them as such and who is to blame for that? The family under capitalism? The state? Parents? Can children have the same rights as adults? How can we change the way we think about kids, about who they are in relation to the adults around them? What kind of society will "put children first"?
A compendium of articles from this site can be downloaded here...
A leaflet advertising the next three meetings of the group can be downloaded here...
**** NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE OF SUBJECT FOR OUR APRIL MEETING*****
Child labour: discussion plus visit to exhibition, organised by North London No Sweat
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Date:
23 April, 2005 - 13:00
Location:
Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green (meet at the information stand)
Description:
Visit to the museum's exhibition on child labour, plus a meeting in the museum to discuss the issues. Children are welcome. During the exhibition they can play in the museum's soft play area with supervision.
You can download a PDF leaflet advertising this event here.
Visit to the museum's exhibition on child labour, plus a meeting in the museum to discuss the issues. Children are welcome. During the exhibition they can play in the museum's soft play area with supervision.
You can download a PDF leaflet advertising this event here.
Don't cut Sure Start!
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The government’s own figures say there are now 124 fewer Sure Start centres than there were when the coalition took office.
Schools without punishment
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By Martin Thomas
Some readers have found Jayne Edwards’ opposition to punishment in schools (Solidarity 220) naive and unrealistic.
Lambeth: save children's services
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The London borough of Lambeth has some of the worst levels of child poverty and youth unemployment in the UK.
No punishment in schools
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By Jayne Edwards
I agree with Cathy Nugent (Solidarity 219) that children need rules, just as adults — ones that make sense and that are logical.