Posts Tagged ‘children’
Quarter of London children come from jobless homes
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Almost a quarter of children in London live in households where no one is working, official figures showed today.
The UK average for the proportion of children living in households where no one works is 15 per cent, but this rises to 23 per cent in London and 18 per centin the North East, North West, West Midlands and Wales, the Office for National Statistics data showed.
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Child friendly advert
Thursday, February 5th, 2009GPS wristwatch helps parents track children
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009For years, parents have been limited to traditional methods of keeping track of their children’s movements: standing in the playground, watching from the window, or asking them to phone home when they visit a friend’s house. But now anxious mothers and fathers are being offered a distinctly hi-tech method of monitoring their child’s every movement – tracking them by satellite !!