Our new report and supporting materials provide a look at the lives of young carers and their families:
Read the national press coverage online
03 February 2009
The Children’s Society launched its landmark report A Good Childhood: Searching for values in a competitive age at a press conference on Monday 2 February 2009.
Here is a list of the key national online coverage on 2 and 3 February:
Computers and TV blamed for teenage violence and casual sex
Daily Mail
TV soaps 'mentally harm' children
Metro
Kids in crisis? Women must be to blame ...
The Guardian
Kids report warns of 'too much TV'
ITV
Could Telly Be Making You Unwell?
Sky News
Good Childhood Inquiry blames the parents for bad childhoods
Nursery World
Teenage offender turns life round
BBC News
Kids report warns of 'too much TV'
Channel 4
Adults 'let our children down'
Evening Standard
Childhood ruined by 'me-first' society, landmark report claims
Daily Telegraph
Children paying price for adults' pursuit of success, says report
The Guardian
Is life really worse for kids today than it was for previous ...
The Guardian
Selfish adults 'damage childhood'
BBC News
What makes a good childhood?
BBC News
Childcare Children pay price ‘as adults put themselves first’
The Times Online
Leading article: Childhood in Britain still leaves much to be desired
The Independent
Who is going to pay for all our old people?
Daily Telegraph
Working women 'harm family'
TeleText
Mum's cash 'leading to split home'
Daily Mirror
Comment articles:
Richard Layard: Schools should help the young find a sense of purpose
Guardian Unlimited
The Children's Society report on childhood should trouble us all
Daily Telegraph
Tom Sutcliffe: Manna from heaven for us 'selfish' adults
The Independent
Mary Dejevsky: Why do we make it so easy for people to ignore ...
The Independent
For society's sake, we must change
Evening Standard comment piece by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams
Parents who put their children before work will rescue British society
Daily Telegraph comment piece by Gill Hornby
The Good Childhood Inquiry - the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood - is managed by The Children's Society. The major new paperback A Good Childhood, is on sale from 5 February. The book is written by Professor Richard Layard and Judy Dunn and published by Penguin.
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