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Parents Trust Their Net Savvy Children
Reports of children surfing the Net like zombies, exposed to pornography, gore and virtual violence are disputed by a Reader's Digest survey which reveals that most parents trust their children to surf the Net safely and believe that it has a positive effect on their children's education.
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Report Card
Across the country as I write, schoolchildren are receiving the examination results that assess their performance over the last couple of years in each of the subjects. (Well, except in Scotland, but that is a different story.) It seems an appropriate point at which to draw up a similar report card for the government. In which policy areas does the public feel it has passed, and in which has it failed? Or rather, since "value added" seems to be the preferred benchmark these days, in which policy areas has it improved its standing since it was elected, and in which has it lost out? And, for those issues where the Opposition has scored hits, has the result merely been to damage Labour credibility or also to convince the electorate that the Conservatives (or, indeed, Liberal Democrats) might do a better job?
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Political Football?
Professor Robert Mackenzie was once quoted as saying that he enjoyed election nights in the same way other people enjoyed the Cup Final. New research for the June-July 2000 edition of British Public Opinion newsletter suggests that there is more to this remark than meets the eye.
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Sex Education Lessons For Parents From fpa
fpa (formerly Family Planning Association) will today launch a new video called 'Talking to your kids about sex'. It is aimed at parents with children coming up to puberty and will provide information and advice on how to discuss sex with their children.
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Sport And Children - More Opportunity, Less Participation?
An overwhelming majority of adults believes that children have more opportunity to play sport than they had, but are less active. This is one of the findings of a new Nestle & acute; Family Monitor study on 'Sport and the Family' undertaken with the Youth Sport Trust.
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Labour Spending Review And Spin Poll
Poll on satisfaction with Labour government: I am going to read out a list of public figures and will ask you if you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the way
they are doing their job. If you have not heard of them, please say so...Gordon Brown, Tony Blair etc. -
Research Shows Big Boost For Out Of School Hours Learning Activities
Over two thirds of schools have increased the provision of out of school hours learning activities in the last two years according to research published today by Schools Minister Jacqui Smith.