One of the shocking things in Cottrell-Boyce’s piece is just the concept of ‘furniture poverty’ - that you can’t expect a story to be read to a child if the child doesn’t have a bed!
The Time for Bed charity mentioned in the piece now works with Zarach, working to provide beds & other material 😭
Thinking about Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s piece on children’s rights in The Observer yesterday in which he characterises UK treatment of children - from government to parents and wider culture - as one of carelessness.
Yes, he says, there are dangers online but the offline world is bad for kids too.
The children’s laureate has spent two years visiting schools, libraries, prisons and communities to discover how Britain’s young people live now. He sets out what we are losing from childhood and expl...
