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Social mobility tsar: four-in-10 mothers and fathers ‘should receive parenting classes’
20 October 2014
Graeme Paton in the Telegraph reported that Alan Milburn cited the Sutton Trust Baby Bonds research as he launched his social mobility report.
A national programme of parenting classes should be introduced because as many as four-in-10 mothers and fathers struggle to raise their own children, according to the Government’s social mobility tsar.
Alan Milburn said it should be “the norm” for families to be given advice on issues such as reading to their children, imposing discipline and restricting TV viewing to tackle the scourge of “bad parenting”.
In a report, the chairman of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission insisted parenting classes – aimed at families with children from the early years up to the teens – should be as common as antenatal lessons for expectant mothers.
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When asked how many parents should receive help, Mr Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister, quoted a Sutton Trust report that suggested four-in-10 children were missing out on good parenting.
Parents involved should be identified by schools and childcare workers, it was suggested.
Read the full Telegraph report here.
The Sutton Trust was quoted throughout the new report, which is available here.
The Trust was quoted in coverage in Public Finance.
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