Mr Cook's List: Student info and reading

• Clampdown on sexualised ‘wallpaper’ surrounding children

  • What technology contributes or helps to reduce this?

• alls on businesses and media to play their part in ending the drift towards an increasingly sexualised ‘wallpaper’ that surrounds children.

   

    Reg Bailey
• They are particularly unhappy with the increasingly sexualised culture surrounding their children, which they feel they have no control over.
• Giving greater weight to the views of parents in the regulation of pre-watershed TV, rather than viewers as a whole, about what is suitable for children to watch.
• Banning the employment of children under 16 as brand ambassadors and in peer-to-peer marketing
• Parents feel there is no escape and no clear space where children can be children.
• Many of the actions suggested in the report are for businesses and regulators rather than for the Government.

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• "Our research establishes graphene as the strongest material ever measured, some 200 times stronger than structural steel,"
• If graphene can be compared to the way plastic is used today, everything from crisp packets to clothing could be digitised once the technology is established. The future could see credit cards contain as much processing power as your current smartphone.