guardian.co.uk Society:
Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Karnataka's Transport Department is trying to reduce congestion in this jammed city. Recently, it organised a Bicycle Eco Rally for school children. (Read More)
BBC:
The annual Children in Need show - which included a dance-off between BBC newsreaders and Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity - raises £20.3m. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
London Children's Film Festival, LondonIs it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over th (Read More)
Kolkata -Cities-The Times of India:
Parliament had passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill that emphasis free education for children aged between 6 and 14 years, but what will be the provisions for children below six years of age and those between 14 and 18?. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Met Office predicting up to 50mm and warns of waters rising again as county reels from evacuations and policeman's deathFlood-damaged parts of the UK are bracing themselves for more heavy rain today after two days of downpours that inundated homes, swept away bridges, sparked evacuations and claimed the life of a policeman. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midnight, my children were asleep and my husband, a serviceman, was deployed away from home. I was so ta (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
As a mother of three boys, Hannah Evans is used to all the bruises and gashes ... it's just a case of when to go to A&EIt was the marble that got me thinking. A magnetic marble. It should have been whizzing round the track of Barney's best fourth birthday present, a particularly complicated ball bearing helter-skelter. Only (Read More)
The Guardian:
Guardian Work's exposé of blacklisting in the construction industry has led to draft legislation, but many workers whose details were kept on file are still sufferingSeventeen months after Guardian Work exposed blacklisting in the construction industry, new laws outlawing the practice are set to come into force, and next we (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he (Read More)
The Guardian:
Lavlee Mollik tells Bangladesh newspaper that she wants her daughters to live and be educated in AustraliaThe mother of conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in an operation in Melbourne has said she does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new lives in Australia, acco (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
A book lover's guide to building a brilliant children's libraryNo 52 Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (1948)Here we are at last, ensconced in the very last Book Corner (or at least, the last official Book Corner – a series of pleadings on my part have elicited permission to add an appendix-type affair next week to ga (Read More)