'Family friendly' Yvette Cooper says single parents have a responsibility to look for work as their children... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/17038 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:17:36 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/17037/t/Power---grandparents-Tories--hand--sweeping-legal-rights---f.html Millions of grandparents will be given sweeping new legal rights if the Tories win the next election.

The law will be changed to ensure they do not lose contact with their grandchildren after a family separation, divorce or bereavement.

They will also be put at the front of the custody queue if their grandchildren face being fostered or taken into care.

feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/17037 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:16:37 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16976/t/Woman-head-teacher-slapped-pupil---face---refused--stop-smok.html

Eve Ritchie-Fallon is accused of hitting a boy at a school for children with behavioural problems

A head teacher slapped a pupil round the face when he refused to stop smoking... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16976 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:41:35 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16973/t/Truancy-rate-record--parents-rebel--grab-cheaper-holiday-dea.html Parents are fuelling record truancy rates by taking their children out of school for cut-price term-time holidays.

Nearly 65,000 pupils skipped lessons each day during the last school year, up 3,000 on 2007/08.

Family holidays during term-time were the second biggest reason for absence after illness.

feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16973 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:19 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16874/t/Pregnant-mother-implanted--wrong-embryo----baby--IVF-blunder.html A pregnant American woman, Carolyn Savage, will be forced to give up her baby after an IVF blunder meant she was mistakenly implanted with another couple's embryo.

By Andrew Hough
Published: 8:29AM BST 22 Sep 2009

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16874 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:41:53 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16852/t/-mum--dad-s-behaviour----children-branded-troublemakers--sch.html Children can go through school with an unfair reputation for being naughty - because the teachers don't like their parents, research claims.

Home backgrounds prejudice views of their behaviour in the classroom and leads to some children being tagged as 'unruly' from the age of four.

Parents judged as neglectful, indulgent, anxious, unco-operative or interfering are seen as failing to adequately prepare their son or daughter for school.

This in turn feeds... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16852 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:09:08 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16798/t/Ruby-pipped------army--Olivias--Jack-stays-favourite--boys.html Ruby was pushed off her pedestal as the queen of girls' names today.

Olivia has emerged as the new number one choice for little girls.

But for boys public favour is far less fickle.

feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16798 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:38 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16707/t/Seventy-five--cent--parents-shunning-Gordon-Brown-s-Child-Tr.html They were supposed to encourage parents to save for their children's future.

But Labour's flagship Child Trust Funds appear to have been a flop after figures showed yesterday that parents are all but ignoring them.

Seven out of ten families have failed to pay a penny into the savings scheme.

The funds, started by Gordon Brown in 2003 when he was chancellor, were supposed to give children a better financial start in life.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16707 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:19:02 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16706/t/GCSEs-reach-record-pass-rate---schools-boss-says----scrapped.html GCSE pass rates soared to a new record today, sparking growing calls for the exams to be scrapped.

Former chief inspector of schools Sir Mike Tomlinson joined the criticism of the tests this morning as the results were revealed to be the best ever.

More than a fifth of all the results were As and A*s - a doubling of the numbers in two decades - and two-thirds were A-C.

In total, 21.6 per cent of all results were As and A*s and 67.1 per cent were A-C, an... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16706 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:12:37 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16669/t/Children-miss-3-9m-school-days-as-truancy-rises.html Children skipped almost 3.9 million days of school during the spring term as the truancy rate rose, Government figures showed.

Published: 10:18AM BST 26 Aug 2009

Rising numbers of pupils are missing lessons because of family holidays taken during term time, without the school's... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16669 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:44 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16622/t/Music-teacher-called-Jazz-Lady-admits-lesbian-relationship--.html A lesbian music teacher at a top public school, known to her pupils as 'the jazz lady', had a sexual relationship with a teenage female pupil.

By Andy Bloxham and Aislinn Simpson
Published: 5:59PM BST 18 Aug 2009

http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16622 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:40:31 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16607/t/Woman-gives-birth-on-pavement-after-being-refused-ambulance-.html A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.

Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.

But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16607 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:05:48 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16597/t/Tunisian-woman-pregnant--12-babies-eclipses-Nadia-Suleman-s-.html A Tunisian woman is reported to be about to eclipse the octuplets of the American mother Nadia Suleman after becoming pregnant with 12 babies.

By Aislinn Simpson
Published: 8:26PM BST 17 Aug 2009

http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16597 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:47:37 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16576/t/Boy-15-gets-an-exam-pass-just-for-using-the-bus.html

Bobby McHale from Bury has a certificate for his abilities at bus stops

Eagerly awaiting his GCSE results, Bobby McHale was surprised to receive an early... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16576 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:53:15 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16545/t/IVF-treatment-is-a-lottery.html IVF treatment is a lottery: Tories

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feeds@yuku.com (Dannys Damsel) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16545 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:23:49 GMT http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16535/t/Primary-schoolchildren-to-be-taught-not-to-hit-girls.html Schoolchildren are to be taught the importance of healthy, non-violent relationships as part of the first ever national strategy to tackle violence against women and girls.

By Tom Whitehead and James Kirkup
Published: 7:00AM BST 05 Aug 2009

Even primary school youngsters... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TBE) http://thebritishempire.yuku.com/topic/16535 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:25:12 GMT