| The Department for Education are consulting on proposed legislation on shared parenting following family separation. The proposals aim to ensure that parents who are able and willing to play a positive role in their child’s care should have the opportunity to do so. The consultation closes on 5 September 2012. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: Department for Education 13 June 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Further information: BBC Online 13 June 2012 |
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Poverty has two-fold impact on children’s ability, says studyPoverty has two-fold impact on children’s ability, says study Seven-year-olds who have lived in poverty since infancy perform substantially worse in a range of ability tests than those who have never been poor, even when family circumstances and parenting skills are taken into account, researchers have found.
On a scale from zero to 100, a child who has been in persistent poverty will rank 10 points below an otherwise similar child who has no early experience of poverty, according to researchers. The research,published by the Institute of Education, looked at vocabulary, reading, picture recognition and pattern construction.
Poverty has a direct effect on children’s abilities, as well as an indirect effect, because it hampers their parents’ ability to help them. The direct effect is because of a “sheer lack of resources”, researchers say. Better-off parents are able to provide more stimulating environment for their children.
Andy Dickerson, one of the authors of the research, said: “My children play on a tablet [computer], that’s a pure income effect, nothing to do with me as a parent
Access to online porn ‘twisting children’s view of sexual norms’Access to online porn ‘twisting children’s view of sexual norms’ Deputy children’s commissioner says social networking, mobiles and hardcore porn contributing to child sexual exploitation Children are having the threshold of what is normal sexual behaviour twisted by free access to hardcore pornography on their mobile phones, the deputy children’s commissioner says.
Sue Berelowitz told the home affairs select committee that social networking sites and the use of pornography was one of the key areas she was examining in an investigation of group and gang child sexual exploitation. Her inquiry had already revealed that such exploitation was taking place across the country in urban, rural and metropolitan areas. “It is violent, it is sadistic, it is very, very ugly,” she told MPs on Tuesday.
She said the issue of how social networking, BBM messaging and pornography was being used as part of the exploitation of children and young people
The European Child Safety Alliance (ECSA) will publish report cards on child safety measures for more than 30 European countries.
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched a website aimed at children in care
Barnardo’s has published a report on child sexual exploitation
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DFE consulting on proposed legislation on shared parenting following family separation
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