We can use this opportunity to ask them to report to us the steps they have taken to address the issues you raise in your report and act on your specific recommendations. So I would like you to join me and Sarah Teather at a meeting at Downing Street in October, to which we will also invite retailers, advertisers, broadcasters, magazine editors, video games manufacturers, music producers, internet and phone companies, regulators and all other interested parties. We need to make sure we hold businesses and regulators to account in a transparent way. The social response is not something we can leave to chance. stop the process where companies pay children to publicise and promote products in schools or on social networking sites by banning “the employment of children as brand ambassadors and in peer-to-peer marketing.”.ensure children are protected when they watch television, are on the internet or use their mobile phones by “making it easier for parents to block adult and age-restricted material” across all media.make public space more family-friendly by “reducing the amount of on-street advertising containing sexualised imagery in locations where children are likely to see it.”.I particularly welcome those recommendations to: I support this emphasis, as it consistent with this government’s overall approach and my long held belief that the leading force for progress should be social responsibility, not state control. But I note that many of the actions you suggest are for business and regulators to follow rather than for government. Of course, we will look carefully and consider our response to all your recommendations. Instead, we should look to put “the brakes on an unthinking drift towards ever greater commercialisation and sexualisation”. As you say, we should not to try and wrap children up in cotton wool or simply throw our hands up and accept the world as it is. In dealing with this problem, I very much agree with the central approach you set out. I am also grateful to Sarah Teather, Minister of State for Children and Families, for commissioning this report. It is a tremendous report and a huge contribution to an issue that concerns so many parents up and down the country and that has such a damaging impact on our children. Providing access to programs such as these, can help change the trajectory of their educational career.I am writing to thank you for all the work you have put in to delivering your review into the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. The Foundation formed to provide a continuous stream of supporters to assist in children feeling successful at achieving their goals at an even younger age. This improvement had a direct correlation to school performance and the frequency of calls home from the school. The growth from a 4th to an 8th grade math level in just 6 weeks only proved what everyone knew all along, he was very smart, but had gaps in the foundation that needed improvement. Shane’s Mother feels blessed to have had the ability to send Shane to a 6 week tutoring program outside of school. With a stronger base, everything from there is only stronger. This can assist in the creation of foundational knowledge to be unlocked for those who may need individualized lessons or a different teaching style. It is this thought that led the Foundation’s Board of Directors, along with many other loved ones, to start a non-profit whose first initiative would be to provide funds for children in need to gain access to educational programs. For a child, that reality puts them at risk of being laughed at or teased so they may act out first to avoid this while not addressing the root cause, lack of understanding. Many times, it can be as simple as not understanding the material being taught, resulting in lower confidence levels and children that cause distractions to avoid facing the reality. While a child cannot step back and see why they are bullying others, or bullying the teachers by being the class clown or being disruptive, as adults we can see there is more beneath the behavior. His strong aversion to bullying paired with his desire to boost those around him truly founded the idea. This mission will honor Shane’s initiative of making everyone feel loved and worthy. 2019, on the principle of providing resources to children, as early as possible, to positively impact their mental health and educational future. The Shane Thurston Foundation was founded in Feb.
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