Discussion

I am becoming increaslingly concerned about the attitude of local communities to young people. We quite rightly want respect and respect is critical for sustain...

I've been giving it some thought recently especially after reading a book of the same title (What are children for?). What surprised me was that among my group ...

There seems to be a circularity in the pursuit of the reduction of perceived risk - often resulting in risk actually increasing.
I can think of many differ...

The Risk and Childhood lecture (21st Feb) excellently demonstrated those everyday risks that face children in our modern world, the real risks such as the lack of freedom and the danger presented by the traffic on our roads. It demonstrated very well that there needs to be a considerable change…

Risk is a perception, and the way we perceive and create our inner assessment of external risk and take subsequent action is a path strewn with errors of unders...

The health and saftey executive have a lot to answer for. I do not know who these so called officers are and what training they have but by God they are destroy...

A discussion to explore the need for changes to the educational system to ensure that risk is taught as a coherent whole. To some extent this is being anticipat...

Tuesday (27th March) saw Newsnight talking about the increase in the number of children in the UK living in relative poverty. This is a real risk, not only to t...