I am posting this blog late on Tuesday, having just watched Michael Morpurgo give the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. It was entitled 'Set the Children Free' and was a passionate statement of children's rights and how we abuse them - in Yarl's Wood, the Gaza Strip, and in schools that focus on narrow targets rather than the growth of the ndividual. I can't now do the lecture justice in a simple description; but I hope that it resonates and shocks, and chages the way we think about and do things. If you did not watch it, look at it on iPlayer. I can't agree with everything Michael said, but I found it the most affecting lecture I have heard on children and children's rights - ever.Good night.
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