Like any policy idea announced in the midst of a general election campaign, the Labour Party’s initiative to extend paternity leave from two to four weeks is likely to be dissected and demolished before the whole point of it disappears completely in a puff of smoke generated from the white heat of party political battling…
The recommendation made yesterday from the education select committee calling for children to be taught age-appropriate sex and relationship education as a statutory subject in both primary and secondary schools seemed to receive a mixed reaction. On the one side, teachers; social workers and child protection specialists were largely supportive of the idea and on…
The Centre for Social Justice (CJS), a think tank set up by the Government, recently found that 62 per cent of teenagers sitting their GCSEs own a smartphone, compared to only 57 per cent who are still living with both parents. While there is much opining, moralising and ideologising that could be done and is…