Safety
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008A number of the articles this week touch on different aspects of safety.
On the positive side, Kathleen Lane mentions the South African innovation of Safe Parks, where play is supervised by trained child and youth care workers, who are ready to help children with family problems as well as encourage their play. Keith White talks of the importance of ritual and the security which it can offer children.
Looking at the risks and dangers facing children, Norman Lamb speaks of the mental health problems which young people may face, and the lack of suitable resources to address them. Valerie Jackson bemoans the threat posed by the over-testing of little children in their earliest years of education. Chris Durkin warns of the child protection systems which may fulfil statutory expectations and requirements but which do not necessarily meet children
