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By Archie Lacey There are a number of flaws to granting people permission to make observations and judgements on others as a matter of course. These are: subjectivity, bias, prejudice, narrowed perception, assumption of deficit and acceptance of received benchmarks Read More …
By Spartacus Lincolnshire County Council recently decided to take no further action to prevent a father allowing his seven-year-old daughter to walk alone to a bus stop, leading to this BBC discussion of the “responsibilities of the parents and the state”. The Read More …
By Elaine From a report in the Evening Standard: Poverty report targets early years (quoting ‘poverty tsar’ Frank Field MP). Government action to tackle poverty should focus on supporting children during the first five years of their lives, the Labour MP commissioned by Read More …
By Veteran Home Educator As a relatively new home educator back in the 1990s, I recall an education officer’s astonishment that a nice middle class parent like me should be perturbed by her department’s particularly shoddy treatment of a family Read More …
