Daily roundup 18 May: Children's rights, Girlguide badges, and Mary Poppins

Teaching children their rights in school could be key to transforming behaviour and results, Wales's children's commissioner has said. Sally Holland said the approach should underpin the new national curriculum. The BBC reports that one Swansea school said it had contributed towards reducing fixed-term exclusions from 33.5 days to just one day in one term.


Girlguides could get badges for "vlogging" and "upcycling" as the movement embarks on the biggest modernisation project in 50 years. The Telegraph reports that other new badges under consideration are app design and DIY - where girls would learn how to assemble flat-pack furniture. The new programme, which will be launched in summer 2018, is aimed at making the Girlguides "more relevant" to the lives of girls and teenagers.


A British nanny has legally changed her name to Mary Poppins after being likened to the fictional character by clients. The Huffington Post reports that Mary Poppins, formerly Emma Davenport, has been a nanny since she was 18 years old and has often dressed like the character as part of her job. She officially changed her name by deed poll.


Women are being unfairly alarmed by official guidelines that warn them to avoid alcohol completely during pregnancy, experts have said. The Guardian reports that it is claimed that some mothers-to-be may even be having an abortion because they are worried they have damaged their unborn child by drinking too much. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, maternal rights campaign group Birthrights and academics specialising in parenting say official advice on drinking in pregnancy is too prescriptive.


A social worker who lied about visiting two children who were potentially at risk of harm has been struck off. The BBC reports that the woman was employed as an agency social worker for Lincolnshire County Council until 2015. A tribunal heard she was asked to visit a family where there had been an alleged domestic violence incident between the parents, but did not go.