The government’s response to this worrying statistic is to pledge £1.7 billion to enable schools to meet the needs of the burgeoning number of children with mental health problems. But why are they not questioning the causes of this huge increase in school children needing mental health treatment?. Is it because government is unaware of…
What is it like to be a baby and infant? They are so helpless, so completely dependent on others for survival with little understanding of the world they have been born into. Surely it is a situation which easily provokes anxiety. Babies get to know their mother in the safety of the womb. When a…
The TUC has recently publicised figures showing the rise in childcare costs and demanding that government does more to increase the affordability of nursery places. TUC’s Frances O’Grady said, “Parents need subsidised, affordable childcare from as soon as maternity leave finishes to enable them to continue working, and so mums don’t continue to have to…
At the start of the new school year the Mayor for Greater Manchester wrote an article in a newspaper with the headline ‘It is harder than ever to be a young parent today’ He said how a third of young children starting school reception classes this term would not be ‘school ready’ and how this…
If a baby can feel empathy at 4 months,(I 20.9.17John von Radowitz) why is it that we read of people who cannot feel empathy for anyone? Following a court case of someone who has committed a vicious attack on another human being, how often do we read in the papers that “the accused showed no…
On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning (14th September 2017) there was much discussion about children who seemed to have little or no empathy. Some of these children are clearly an enormous problem and very difficult to cope with, and one particular case was being discussed; various psychiatrists were addressing lack of empathy in…