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Category «Press Releases 2006»

New PCT pill scheme places vulnerable young people at risk

Family Education Trust has condemned as ill-judged and grossly irresponsible plans by North Tyneside PCT to use taxpayers’ money to provide children as young as 13 with free morning-after pills from local pharmacies over Christmas and on into the New Year. Family Education Trust Director Norman Wells said: ‘This new scheme is undermining the law …


Children’s Commissioners trespassing where they have no business

In their demand for a new law making it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children, the UK’s four children’s commissioners are championing a radical children’s rights agenda and not acting as the true champions of children, according to the Family Education Trust. The Trust’s Director, Norman Wells, commented: “The commissioners seem to …


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