Archive for April, 2007
How Caregivers will be Criminalised Under Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking’ Bill
Friday, April 27th, 2007Press Release 27 April 2007
If Green MP Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking bill’ is passed into law, increasing numbers of childcare workers (e.g. creche and kindergarten workers) and those in the place of parents (e.g. grandparents, foster parents and guardians) will be charged with criminal assault by the police for lightly smacking children for “correction” purposes and [...]
MPS Fail to address Family Planning Association disaster
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Press Release 5 April 2007
The results of the Youth Sexual Health report that was made public yesterday shows that years of tax-payer funded sex education classes organised by the Family Planning Association (FPA) and other like-minded groups have utterly failed to achieve any significant reduction in the high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted [...]