A Christian free school lauded by Education Secretary Michael Gove has been ordered to close after inspectors accused pupils of harbouring "prejudiced views" of children from other faiths which went unchallenged by their teachers.
The eight charities involved in the inquiry, including my own, have come together to examine the evidence and listen to, and take account of, the views of children and their carers.
This elegant beachcomber, with cathedral ceilings, nautical walkways and railings and glass-enclosed airiness, offers views of children cavorting on the beach below by day and the distant flickering lights of Connecticut by night.
In recent guidance, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has emphasised that, when business consults with communities that may be affected by a potential business project, it is critical for it to seek the views of children and consider them in decisions that affect them.
Set in London's East End during the early 1960s (the new, fifth, series starts in 1961), the show opened with the familiar, sickly voice-over and sweeping views of children playing happily in cobbled streets, bus conductors waving merrily from their poles and midwives riding bicycles in the sort of sunlight this part of the capital has probably seen only once in the past 50-odd years.
However, the trust is selective enough to raise doubts about Reidian views of children as highly credulous (Harris 2002).
The paper examines the views of children living in contrasting British suburbs: exploring their perceptions of the occurrence of anti-social behaviour (ASB), their anxieties about different types of incident, and their views on appropriate punishments.
Even so, she did not think such American parental views of children would prevent her from holding the same expectation of her American students' classroom behaviors as she did of her students in Taiwan.
The views of children, young people and the existing staff team of Dunclutha House have been taken on board in the design of the new £1m care home to be built in Dunoon.
The Department of Education said the council's targets were not strict enough, immediate action was needed to clear a backlog of unallocated cases, and the views of children involved need to be taken into account.
The authors do, however, concede that such omissions 'can convey universalist assumptions' although they maintain that their decision to produce a single framework for all children under 5 years is justified in that it 'assists in countering deficit, naïve, or romanticised views of children and childhood (Sumsion et al. 2009, p. 9).
