Soon after the completion of her maternity leave, work was slowly becoming a routine for Joanne Thompson. It was her third day back after dropping off Millie, her nine-month daughter, to the nursery. However, it wasn’t more than a few hours later when she had received a phone call informing ...
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In the frenetic discourse surrounding child safety online, many of us well-intentioned adults forget to actually talk to any children about what they think. That is, until those rare but unforgettable cases where something has already gone terribly wrong. A group of academics from the London School of Economics sat ...
Lord Ken MacDonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions, has argued that attacks on disabled people must be taken more seriously. According to official statistics, there were 1,841 recorded incidents of disability hate crime in 2012/13, although only 349 cases resulted in convictions. Of this, only seven offenders were given an increased ...
Media horror stories bombard us daily when it comes to children and e-safety, but is going online really as dangerous for children as some journalists would have us believe? A new report from the London School of Economics has found that children might be better at self-regulating their internet usage ...
It's lunchtime. As you lift your fork, a piece of chicken falls and drops on the floor. Do you throw it in the bin, or pick it up and eat it? Many of us will probably do the latter, justifying it with the ‘five-second rule’ – if it's picked up within five ...
