Posts Tagged ‘children’
Childcare provision in Hackney slammed as ‘insufficient’
A new report by the Family and Childcare Trust reveals a lack of quality childcare facilities in Hackney
Read MoreCould you adopt a child?
More adoptive families needed to provide loving homes
Read MoreIt’s child’s play! Read our pick of summer days out with the kids
The sun is here, so while it shines, make hay – at the city farm and numerous other fun places
Read MoreHackney social services condemned over failures after mother kills children
Coroner criticises staff who allowed woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia unsupervised overnight visits
Read MoreHow Hackney reclaimed child protection social work
Is a model of social work that radically transformed child protection in one borough about to go mainstream?
Read MoreTop boy: stories of Hackney’s young drug dealers
Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it
Read MoreWill the National Citizen Service stop young people rioting?
David Cameron says the scheme will restore values, responsibility and self-discipline. Its critics say it is too expensive and will not help disaffected youngsters
Read MoreLondon riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
Read MoreThe Book Box Children’s Book Festival 2011
Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 March 2011
Read MoreHow to turn 60,000 students into unqualified drop-outs
The axing of the education maintenance allowance to help poor teenagers stay at school feels like targeted government malice
Read MoreJewish schools are not a faith school ‘menace’
My local Jewish primary is multicultural and academically excellent, and shows Dawkins is wrong about faith schools
Read MoreHa Ha Ha Ha Hackney! charity comedy night in aid of disabled children
7.15pm Monday 26 April, City & Hackney Carers Centre, Dalston
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