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Campaigning will shift the climate, to end FGM in Britain
FGM (female genital mutilation or ‘cutting’) is embarrassing for us in the mainstream of British life even to consider; but it’s excruciating and debilitating for its young victims. This is one topic where grown-up people must not permit their queasiness to over-rule … Continue reading
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Tagged #FGM, #NoFGM, children, FGM (female genital mutilation), health, opinion, politicians, professionals, public services
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Smacking is NEVER the answer; violence begets only violence
David Lammy MP is reported to believe that working class people should be allowed to smack their children within ‘reasonable’ limits. Whether he also believes that (in the public perception?) banning the physical chastisement of children helped fuel the 2011 Summer … Continue reading
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Tagged #FGM, #NoFGM, children, David Lammy, equality, FGM (female genital mutilation), legislation, riots, single mums, Sure Start Children's Centres, violence #FGM
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CSA charges: the ConDems punish women and children, and shield men (again)
The ConDem administration doesn’t just disregard women; it evidently wants to put them firmly back under the control, however odious, of men. How else can we explain the intention as an element of the Welfare Reform Bill that single parents … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Support Agency, children, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, fathers, feminist, Liberal Democrat, mothers, Nasty Party, Nick Clegg, poverty, single mums, Welfare Reform Bill
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Teachers, tasks and taking action
Like most others, I have mixed views about the teachers’ pension strike scheduled for Thursday this week (30 June). Many years ago I too, incensed as a teacher by the past Conservative Government’s position, went on strike a few times; … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Conservative, Ed Miliband, education, emotional intelligence, pensions, strike, teachers
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FGM (female circumcision) is illegal and cruel – and culturally challengeable everywhere
Today, 6 February, is the United Nations’ International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation. We must all face up to the facts; FGM happens in communities in the UK and Western Europe as well as elsewhere. In Britain debate this week is about ‘multiculturalism’ … Continue reading
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Tagged #FGM, #NoFGM, children, culture, FGM (female genital mutilation), health, honour crimes, police, politicians, rites of passage
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Early years centres threatened by ConDem cloth ears
My guess is that few (more likely, none) of the present Cabinet – has had personal, direct responsibility for the totally unaided care of a small child, let alone two or more small children, for 24+ hours, non-stop. If I’m … Continue reading
Patronising paternalism about parental leave
Two articles in today’s Times (18 January 2011) remind me yet again why there is so far still for women in the UK to go. In one article, ‘Extra paternity pay is needed to free women, says Clegg’, we learn … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Conservative, David Cameron, economy, Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, infants, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Lynne Featherstone, maternity, Nick Clegg, parents, Theresa May, welfare state, workforce
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Flu jabs: shifting targets from mortality to (short-term) money?
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has now confirmed that a majority of pregnant women have not had flu jabs: more than 70% remain unvaccinated. Given the low immunity and raised vulnerability of this women expecting babies this is a very serious concern. In past … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, children, Conservative, flu, health, infants, maternity, NHS, shroud waving
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In fear of livelihoods; or only of luncheon? Some inequalities do justify shroud-waving
‘Some of us are in fear of our livelihoods; others only of our luncheon.’ Thus, with beguiling directness, wrote Matthew Parris in his Times article yesterday (1 January 2011: ‘Don’t kid yourselves. There must be victims’). ‘We are not … … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, austerity, children, David Cameron, economy, health, infants, maternity, NHS, poverty, professionals, shroud waving, ungalvanised majority
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