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Protect your child against Internet threats : Safer Internet Day survey reveals Scottish parents are failing to protect their children
A survey carried out by Glasgow-headquartered web security company Westcoastcloud for UK Safer Internet Day (Feb 7) reveals that although half of parents in Scotland have installed software to protect their children from accessing unsuitable content when they use desktop PCs and laptops in the home, only 1 in 4 has installed similar protection on the mobile phones, games consoles and television services their kids also use in the house. Yet 1 ... [more]
To help charity 'Children on the Edge', ISAK launches Five a Day poster
ISAK – the maker of beautiful happy things for the home – has adopted charity Children on the Edge and is celebrating the union with a specially designed poster print ‘Five a Day’ featuring a fruit or vegetable for each letter of the alphabet – even ‘X’! Sandra Isaksson, Head of Design for Isak explains: “We are hugely impressed by the work of Children on the Edge, a local charity with a global reach, dedicated to making things better for vuln... [more]
Unique parent-to-parent book published to help SEN children with 'hidden disabilities' get the help they need.
A mother of two autistic boys from Farnham, Surrey has published a book aimed at helping other parents navigate their way through the special educational needs jungle. While there are other books about the SEN system available, this book, by the creator of the SpecialNeedsJungle website, Tania Tirraoro, takes a parent-to-parent approach, explaining in detail how to prepare an application for a statutory assessment of special educational needs.... [more]
Maternity and pregnancy discrimination : Working Families’ helpline team tackles the ongoing problem
Pregnant women, new mothers and flexible workers are often facing discrimination at work. Working Families’ helpline team provides them with extra support. Help is at hand for working parents facing workplace discrimination. The Working Families’ helpline team regularly answers calls from pregnant women, new mothers and flexible workers who fear they are facing discriminating employment practices and who are in need of support. As well as ... [more]
Online with children's rights : protecting Children from Mobile Porn
National governments, including those in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, are promoting legislation to protect children from pornography and other unsuitable Web content. The ability for mobile device users, many of whom are minors, to freely access the Web, has made this an especially critical issue for telecom operators. If implemented, legislation would require operators to actively block undesirable content and make certain types ... [more]
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Media Advisory - Canada Must Give First Nations Children Equal Rights, Indigenous Youth Tell United Nations Committee ...
TORONTO , Feb. 1, 2012 /CNW/ - Six Indigenous youth ambassadors from across Canada will meet with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) next week to urge to the UNCRC to pressure ...
Department of Justice, MacArthur Foundation Provide $2 Million To Support Juvenile Justice Reform
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a new private-public partnership, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation are jointly providing $2 million to support innovative and effective reforms in treatment and services for youth involved in the juvenile justice and child ...
Connecticut's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 17th Annual National Awards Program
Sanam Rastegar, 17, of Weston and Patrick Briscoe, 13, of Newtown today were named Connecticut's top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
National Advocates Take Message to the UN That Canada Must Do Better to Improve the Lives of Aboriginal Children
TORONTO , Feb. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - A national plan is urgently needed to address the single most important systemic human rights issue in the country - the health, education and safety of Aboriginal children ...
BC Child Care Advocates in Geneva to Complain to UN (in News)
Will argue today Canada is failing to meet obligations under Rights of the Child convention.
Essential Learning and the Child Welfare League of Canada Partner to Offer E-Learning Solutions to Members
SAN DIEGO, CA-- - Child Welfare League of Canada is now offering discounts on online staff training solutions provided by Essential Learning. Through CWLC's relationship with the Child Welfare League of ...
Politics live blog: Monday 6 February 2012
• Lunchtime summary • Network Rail bosses forgo their bonuses • Afternoon summary 8.45am: David Miliband doesn't want to return to the shadow cabinet. He chaired a Commission on Youth Unemployment for ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) and, in an interview about it with BBC Breakfast earlier, he said that suggestions that he might return to the Labour front ...
Children in Mexico: Criminals or victims?
At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations.
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Thousands of children are being "needlessly dumped in prison" because of Britain's failing youth justice system, a think-tank has warned.
Call for cut in child prison terms
Thousands of children are being "needlessly dumped in prison" because of Britain's failing youth justice system, a think-tank has warned.
