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Children

Read news, opinion and features on Children issues. 

Children opinion

• When Gove met Goldie, by Melissa Benn
  MELISSA BENN | It’s been another frantic week of debate on the future of our education. Private school head and Blair biographer Anthony Seldon has argued that our children are not learning to think independently. The writer Toby Young continues to attract 16 February 2010
• The biter bit, by Mike Thatcher
  MIKE THATCHER | Christine Gilbert had a glimpse this week of what it’s like to be berated for poor performance and to have your apparent failings dissected by what were once known as Fleet Street’s finest 26 November 2009
• Shooting the messenger, by Conor Ryan
  CONOR RYAN | Today's Ofsted annual report has both good and bad news. There has been a substantial increase in the number of 'good' and 'outstanding' schools - the equivalent of 1800 extra good schools in three years - but there remains a stubborn group where teaching is poor 24 November 2009

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Children features

• Street lifeMore support must be provided to children sleeping rough in Britain. Not only would this alleviate suffering, it would also reduce the long-term costs to the public purse, argues Emilie Smeaton
• Picking up the benefits billThe time has finally come to limit universal benefit payments for the middle classes, argue the IPPR’s Kate Stanley and Clare McNeil
• A hard lesson to learnThe Baby P case has thrown up some serious questions about the merging of children’s education and social services.

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Children news

• Councils planning savage cuts to adult care spending04 March 2010
• Child maintenance agency costs soar24 February 2010
• Nursery funding should go to poorest families only, says charity15 February 2010
• Reducing inequalities ‘must begin at birth’11 February 2010
• Children's health gap 'has widened'03 February 2010
• Ofsted should keep children’s role, says Platt21 January 2010
• Government makes funding guarantee for primary schools04 January 2010
• Education spending protection will not harm other services, says Balls15 December 2009
• Inspectors online: the new watchdog regime10 December 2009
• Nine authorities provide poor child services, inspection finds09 December 2009

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