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Working Together for Childhood
The Alliance for Childhood serves as a network that facilitates reflection and action by people with concerns about the care and education of children. It is not a conventional organisation, but an expression of a willingness to work together for the betterment of the experience of childhood. It exists in the shared work and spirit of cooperation whereby all partners can find mutual support. It is a collaborative approach that is created by commitment and by the activity itself.
Childen's Food Campaign
OpenEYE
From Awareness to Action
For the last five years the multi-disciplinary OpenEYE Campaign group has been fighting to protect children from inappropriate developmental pressures, particularly in relation to recent early years policy-making. The group has attracted significant support and attention and it is now promoting two new initiatives - the book 'Too Much, Too Soon?' that brings together 23 of the best thinkers in the field, and the development of a new and more substantial movement.
The Campaign has also just had nationally published a letter that has been signed by 228 leading experts calling for drastic action to stop the current profound erosion of childhood. You can read the letter and see all the signatories here.
If you care about children, and would like to register your support, please add your name to the online petition that you can then share with others. We hope that you will also sign up to our email list so that we can then keep you informed of all future developments.
New website here.
Alliance for Childhood European Network
Improving the Quality of Childhood in Europe 2011 New!
The new edition is just out. Be first to order your copy. Articles include:Richard Wilkinson, Inequality and the well-being of adults and childhood in rich countries; Ivan Ivanof, The case of the Roma children; Fatima Santiago, Social and emotional learning in Spain: Botin Foundation Responsible Education Programme; Sue Gerhardt, Why love matters: How affection shapes the baby's brain. You can download a copy here
Also still available:
Improving the Quality of Childhood in the European Union: New perspectives
is a compilation of talks given at the Alliance's European Network Group sessions in the European Parliament. Contributors include John Bennet and Sir Richard Bowlby from the UK, Dr Boris Cyrulnik of France and Rene Diekstra from Holland; covering subjects from education in the European Union to attachment and the changing face of adolescence .
Copies are available at £10 plus postage and packing.
Please contact us to order your copy.
All proceeds go to fund the work of the Alliance.
New publication
Too Much, Too Soon?: Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood
The unprecedented influences of the 21st century are impacting on the young mind with unprecedented results. This timely book offers a wide-ranging collective wisdom on how to optimize the individual potential of the next generation.”
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE FRCP (Hon), author of ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century (Sceptre, 2008)
Quote of the month
‘The right to play is the child’s first claim on the community.’
David Lloyd George