Building Core Capabilities for Life – from Center on the Developing Child

Adults need certain capabilities to get and keep a job, provide responsive care for children, manage a household, and contribute productively to the community

When these skills have not developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty or other ongoing adversity, our communitie

Headsprout Early Reading in Special Schools project. Can you help? (UK)

Emily Tyler Roberts at Bangor University asks:

We are currently recruiting special schools with key stage 1 and 2 provision in the North West, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, East Midlands, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. If you could pass this on to any special schools in these reg

Academic responsibilities in integrating health, education and social care around children with disabilities and special needs. Can you help?

Universities and colleges could be a driving force in promoting integration of support services around these children, but are they?

Can you help me collect information about where this is happening in the UK or Ireland? This will help in developing an emerging new network of colleges and universiti

"We Have No Reason to Believe 5G is Safe" (Scientific American)

"... we should support the recommendations of the 250 scientists and medical doctors who signed the 5G Appeal that calls for an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G and demand that our government fund the research needed to adopt biologically based exposure limits

Supporting parent carers - A paper by Joanna Griffin on emotional wellbeing in parents of disabled children

'...professionals need to avoid making assumptions about parental responses to their child’s diagnosis and remain open to the individual’s experience.'

Extract: "We imagine our children before they are born, yet nothing fully prepares us for the realities of parenthood. Any parent takes time to adap

Most children sleep with mobile phone beside bed - Report

There are 57% who always have the phone beside their bed and 44% who feel "uncomfortable" if they are ever without a phone signal.

Extracts from an article by Sean Coughlan, BBC News family and education correspondent, 30 January 2020:

- More than half of children say they sleep with their mobile p

Open letter to UK’s four Children’s Commissioners about dangers to our children from smartphone and wi-fi radiation

At least, children’s commissioners can start protecting the children in their own families now they have seen the science

To:

Bruce Adamson (Scotland)

Sally Holland (Wales)

Anne Longfield (England)

Koulla Yiasouma (N. Ireland)

December 11^th, 2019

Dear Koulla, Anne, Sally and Bruce,

I was pleased

Critical report from England’s Education Select Committee in Parliament is the most important reference document for all of us as a new government settles in next year - about SEND

‘There is too much of a tension between the child’s needs and the provision available. The significant funding shortfall is a serious contributory factor to the failure on the part of all involved to deliver on the SEND reforms and meet children’s needs’

Extracts:

Parents and carers have to wade th

There are 57% who always have the phone beside their bed and 44% who feel "uncomfortable" if they are ever without a phone signal.

At least, children’s commissioners can start protecting the children in their own families now they have seen the science

December 11th, 2019

Dear Koulla, Anne, Sally and Bruce,

I was pleased

December 11^th, 2019