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...social behaviour. It is often argued that positive ‘male role models’ are increasingly absent from home, schools, childcare settings, and the media - and that involving more men in young men’s education and care is key to solving many of the difficulties they face. But perhaps this ‘commonsense’ view is simplistic. Is it really the case that children learn adult...

...work of thousands of social workers. Child protection has gone through many changes over the past century, re-defining its objectives as our understanding of abuse has changed. Now it includes not only neglect, economic exploitation, and cruelty, but emotional, psychological, and sex abuse as well. So child protection enters the 21st century with a substantial depth of...

...social, reciprocal and interactive, then the cost and labour involved in showcasing the school’s commitment to reading surely has to be questioned. How reading spaces are used, who owns them, who made them and who has access to them, (when and how frequently), are all questions worth asking and monitoring over time. The kinds of opportunities these spaces afford for...