Junk culture is 'poisoning our children'
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph today, 110 teachers, psychologists, children's authors and other experts call on the Government to act to prevent the death of childhood.
They write: "We are deeply concerned at the escalating incidence of childhood depression and children's behavioural and developmental conditions."
The group, which includes Philip Pullman, the children's author, Jacqueline Wilson, the children's laureate, her predecessor Michael Morpurgo, Baroness Greenfield, the director of the Royal Institution and Dr Penelope Leach, the child care expert, blames a failure by politicians and public alike to understand how children develop.
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They write: "We are deeply concerned at the escalating incidence of childhood depression and children's behavioural and developmental conditions."
The group, which includes Philip Pullman, the children's author, Jacqueline Wilson, the children's laureate, her predecessor Michael Morpurgo, Baroness Greenfield, the director of the Royal Institution and Dr Penelope Leach, the child care expert, blames a failure by politicians and public alike to understand how children develop.
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