For a long time the evidence has been mounting about how damaging screens are to young children. Slowly, oh so slowly, governments are mobilising to ban under sixteens from social media. They still don’t seem to have woken up to the addictive and harmful effects of gaming for under sixteens…
Something has changed in the last two years. The debate about children and smartphones (and other screens) – for a long time a battleground between concerned parents and sceptical researchers – has begun to settle. Not completely, and not without dissent. But the weight of evidence is now pointing in…
Today the Cultural Learning Alliance published its latest report card on the state of arts education in the UK. The report bends over backwards to give the government credit for saying the right things and beginning the process of reversing the decline in arts education. What it does not emphasise…
Shakespeare wrote about “the whining school-boy… creeping like snail unwillingly to school”, so reluctance to attend school is nothing new. But post-pandemic, absenteeism has soared. Of the 4.5 million children in primary schools, around 240,000 are absent every day. The most commonly cited reason for absence is anxiety and poor…