Meeting the childcare challenge, 1998

Submitted by: Darlington & District Branch  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled welcomes many of the proposals in the recent Green Paper on Childcare, but conscious of the vulnerability of young children, the importance of early childhood...

Treatment of child prostitutes, 1998

Submitted by: Social & Employment Issues Committee   The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, believing that children involved in prostitution should be treated as victims of abuse rather than criminals, calls upon HM Government: (a) to...

A national commissioner for children, 2000

Submitted by: Social and Employment Issues Committee The National Council of Women, concerned that current legislation and Care Standards are manifestly failing to safeguard children from cruelty, abuse, and neglect, and mindful of the UK’s commitment to the UN...

Advertising aimed at children, 2000

Submitted by:  Home Counties North Region The National Council of Women, concerned about the effect of advertising at children on television, calls on HM Government to (a) ban TV sales commercials aimed at children under 12; and (b) strengthen and improve...

Defeating deafness, 2000

Submitted by: Sevenoaks Branch The National Council of Women (a) concerned that fewer than half of hearing-impaired babies are diagnosed by 18 months of age, (b) aware of and welcoming the Government’s decision to conduct Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening by...