08 December 2009 12:00:00 GMT Home educators petition the government via their MPs - the government replies http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news121.shtml 24 November 2009 12:00:00 GMT All those exams and still employers find school-leavers can't manage the basics... what is going on? http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news120.shtml 29 September 2009 12:00:00 GMT A look at what is in store for us in this new bill. http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news119.shtml 22 July 2009 12:00:00 GMT Another punitive social contol measure from New Labour http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news116.shtml 24 June 2009 12:00:00 GMT New Labour's inevitable attack on home education .. http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news115.shtml 17 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT And here is an example of the diminished thinking which promotes Therapeutic education http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news113.shtml 10 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT Review of this important and timely book. http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news112.shtml 12 April 2009 12:00:00 GMT Some supply teacher agencies are advertising for security staff to work as supply teachers... education or enforcement? And, is there a difference any more? http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news111.shtml 22 January 2009 12:00:00 GMT The government is launching a concerted push into the home education sector: 'with rights go responsibilities' http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news110.shtml 16 January 2009 12:00:00 GMT A council in South Wales is building a new school for the 21st century. Be very afraid. http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news109.shtml 08 December 2008 12:00:00 GMT The government is changing the primary school curriculum (yet again): watch Ed Balls use the soundbite 'bringing learning to life' 6 times in a 3 minute ITN interview. But, soundbite aside, what is the real purpose and effect of this new policy? http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news107.shtml 06 April 2008 12:00:00 GMT Criticism of these forms of monitoring of professionals - the attack on spontaneous unpoliced relationships between student and teacher, young person and youth worker http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news46.shtml 29 February 2008 12:00:00 GMT Critical review of research into Primary School testing finds that New Labour is building 'a state theory of learning' http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news44.shtml 12 January 2008 12:00:00 GMT Using IT to invade children's homes. Never let up on the pressure put on children; what New Labour's Education mantra means in truth http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news43.shtml 24 November 2007 12:00:00 GMT A pilot in a Doncaster school tracks children like products in a warehouse http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news41.shtml 13 November 2007 12:00:00 GMT Department of Health. supports stimulant drugging of children which is established as having 'no benefit' http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news40.shtml 12 November 2007 12:00:00 GMT large scale study into ADHD drugs in the US finds 'no benefit at all' http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news39.shtml 23 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT Badgering children is increasingly becoming not so much an activity of anxious parents but a matter of government policy. http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news35.shtml 06 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT Is your child engaging in strange cult-like emotional practices at school? http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/archive/news32.shtml 03 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT Did they really do this? The link is from 2003. The children are 'blissfully unaware' they are being covertly filmed. The camera was installed to catch intruders but ... "Mr Mailing [from the local authority] said the schools' capacity to monitor pupils' activities had been an unexpected benefit." On the one hand there is this paranoia about parents taking photos at sports days etc then the authority is training a camera on school children... No doubt the viewers have all been police checked. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3283423.stm