posted by Liana Giorgi.
Around 600 people have gathered to listen to a discussion between two academics, Richard Layard and Judy Dunn, about the difficulties of raising children in modern societies and the inability of the British welfare system to fight exclusion and school failure. The two academics have written a reasonably accessible social science book entitled A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age on an important social policy issue – and there is obviously a public eager to listen and gain knowledge for action. The audience is a mixture of parents intent on learning how best to support and nurture their children, whilst at the same time fostering their development and school-teachers looking for hints about how to cope with deviant adolescents or children facing mental problems due to family circumstances.
