School seeks dinner lady. Humans need not apply
With its stealthy erosion of adults' powers to deal with children, the state is creating a menace beyond anyone's control
This removal of general authority from adults, and its gradual replacement by state-sanctioned interventions, is utterly corrosive. It infantilises grown-ups, who lose one of the roles that societies have always expected them to fulfil. It makes them timid, and demeans them in the eyes of their children, who see that they are powerless in the face of injustice. And by suggesting that adults may not approach, discuss or reprimand a child, it completely undermines the notion of a community, and the importance of social pressure and shame.
Sarah Harris, Daily Mail, UK
Mothers are banned from looking after each other's children
wo working mothers have been banned from looking after each other's toddlers because they are not registered childminders.
The close friends' private arrangement had let them both return to part-time jobs at the same company.
However, a whistleblower reported them to the education watchdog Ofsted and it found their informal deal broke the law.
Daily Mail staff, Daily Mail, UK
Mother-of-five died from overdose of chemotherapy drug after gross neglect by hospital
The mother-of-five was diagnosed with Myeloma in March 2006 and put on a four-day course of Idarubicin.The jury returned a verdict of 'manslaughter by gross neglect'.
But instead of getting 60mg of the drug over the course of four days, she was given the same amount on each of the four days.
Philip Webster, Telegraph, UK
Lord Mandelson is latest to expose confidential paper in Downing StreetAmong the documents spotted by the long lenses as the minister came out of No 10 was one from a strategy adviser on ideas for attacking the Conservatives. In April, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police when he revealed operational details of an anti-terror raid by displaying a secret memo as he arrived at No 10
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