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Co-Designers Return
For the first three weeks of this month myself, Hannah, Shawnee, Niamh, Matthew, Celia and intern James have been working in Lewisham, Bristol, and Knowsley. We have been working with young people and parents who live in these boroughs to design new services that will help NEET young people and parents who want to engage more in their children's education. We at Demos believe, and have been saying for quite a while, that people really can contribute to designing service solutions to the...
from : tomrichardson
26th July 2007
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Parents look for multi-skilled supernanny | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
According to a survey by one recruitment website, ambitious parents tied up with their own careers are looking for university-educated "supernannies" who can help their offspring with everything from learning a second language to practising the viola, while simultaneously rustling up healthy menus and tending to any medical needs.
from : tomrichardson
15th May 2007
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Family matters | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
Everyone agrees that resilient families are the foundation for stable and peaceful communities. They are the bedrock of a strong economy and a sustainable environment. A child's education depends more on what's going on in their family than what's going on at school. For older people, the family is the frontline of their care.
from : tomrichardson
25th April 2007
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Making fathers of them
A new scheme is helping young dads to engage with their children and learn how to look after them. Jerome Monahan reports
from : tomrichardson
24th April 2007
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Open the gates and free people from Britain's ghettos | Communities | SocietyGuardian.c
Article about the need to understand the effect that living in ghetto-like housing estates can have on the mind. There is a very good critique of the arguments in the second comment (possibly better than Hutton's article).
from : tomrichardson
19th February 2007
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Parents ‘hold key to child literacy’
- Johnson urges families to read
- Kit for schools to help literacy
Parents, not schools, are the key to improving children’s literacy, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, has said.
from : tomrichardson
12th February 2007
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Troubled children pay the price for care home deficiency
Closing care-homes is separating children from their families. Physical separation becomes an emotional one and breeds a sense of isolation, and lonliness
from : tomrichardson
9th February 2007
