Yarl’s Wood detention centre. Afghanistan. Sarah Teather.
October 5, 2010
I’ve been unable to write on this blog lately. My excuses include completing a chapter for a book on the English Early Years Education system that I was asked to write some time ago as a result of my work on the blog: “A Parents’ Guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage”. It’s finished and submitted now. The plan is the chapter will be one of several written by internationally known childhood campaigners.
‘Childhood campaigners’. A loose kind of term – which could include those who notice (and try to address) the moral bankruptcy surrounding government inaction on child detention.
Here are some of them – writers, novelists and playwrights:
Clare Sambrook – deconstructing what the government is NOT doing about Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre – the Liberal Democrats must fight to salvage their promise to end the detention of children for immigration purposes’…
Michael Morpurgo. His new book ‘Shadow’ is fiction for truth-telling…of Afghanistan, immigration detention and Yarl’s Wood.
and the playwright Natasha Walter who wrote ‘Motherland’.
