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‘You wonder how to have a conversation with your children? First, chuck the BlackBerry away’
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Eating breakfast and fatty diet during early pregnancy increases chances of having a boy
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Free our schools
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Childcare helps identify vulnerable children’s needs
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As a teacher, I’ve realised Twitter has real potential
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Association of Graduate Recruiters: ‘Parents should save from child’s birth for university’
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Times 09/03/10
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Posts Tagged fostering
My big brother, Bim
The Guardian 06/03/10
In May 1962, Mum spotted an advertisement in Nursery World looking for a foster home for a four-month-old black baby boy. The photo showed a puzzled face with big, wide eyes looking slightly startled. A child crying out for love,
British orphans: ‘It broke our hearts to see them go away’
Independent 02/03/10
Thousands of British orphans sent to Australia faced a life of violence, rape and virtual slavery. But what of the children left in the UK? Lynne Wallis reports
Britain’s foster care crisis
The Guardian 05/02/10
Britain’s fostering system is being strained to breaking point in the wake of Baby P. More children are being put into care – and yet there is a desperate shortage of foster parents. Amelia Gentleman spends a week with one London team as they battle to find safe harbour for some of the country’s most vulnerable children
Waiting for life to start
Guardian 06/02/10
What happens to children when all attempts to keep them within a ‘normal’ family setting fail? Amelia Gentleman visits a children’s home and meets a few of the thousands of youngsters growing up in these hidden institutions
Radio tuned in to the needs of looked-after children
Guardian 27/01/10
Residents of a London children’s home take to the airwaves with their own radio station
The paperwork can wait: everybody wins with adoption
Timesonline 21/01/10
We must not allow agencies to block the natural human urge to rescue Haiti’s orphans and bring them to the West
Haiti earthquake: orphans begin to arrive in US
Telegraph 19/01/10
Dozens of orphans from Haiti have begun to arrive in the US after having their adoptions fast-tracked in the wake of the earthquake.
Romanian orphan with no arms defies odds to win place at Oxford University
Daily Mail 08/01/10
A Romanian orphan born with no arms was celebrating today after landing a place at Oxford University.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241641/Romanian-orphan-arms-defies-odds-win-place-Oxford-University.html#ixzz0c2uqFjTp
I gave back my adopted baby
Guardian 21/11/09
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work out
In search of a family: The ‘problem’ children left behind
The Independent 8/11/09
Picture this: a six-year-old little boy, born eight weeks prematurely, suffering from heroin withdrawal symptoms…
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