Both Channel 4 and the select committee have recognised that making childhood better for looked-after children is about helping them develop strong relationships, and that far more needs to be done to support this.
An area of particular concern is the state's role as corporate parent in supporting some of the most marginalised looked-after children. We hope that this interest actually leads to real change and improvement of our care system.
Bob Reitemeier, chief executive, The Children's Society
NOT READY FOR SCHOOL AT FOUR
Sir Jim Rose has quite inexplicably recommended that children should start school in the September of the academic year.
Everyone except the government seems to know that four is simply the wrong age at which to move children into institutional primary education. They are still developing social and emotional maturity; refining their motor skills; consolidating their personalities; and establishing a foundation in positive dispositions towards learning.
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