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    Lessons suffer as more teachers take on pupils' problems. Two-thirds of teachers are doubling up as counsellors to pupils, a new survey shows. Half also think that being a shoulder to cry on has a negative impact on their lessons. 56% of those who regularly counselled pupils said it was affecting their teaching and 29% said it ate into their lesson preparation time ...More from Ananova

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    Bullying and Stress

    One of the major problems with bullying, and in fact all things stressful, is that children often find it extremely difficult to tell anyone about the issue. They feel that they would not be much help anyway, that they should be able to deal with it by themselves. The truth is that if they involve teachers and parents at an early stage then quite often the problem is solved before it gets any worse. Visit the links below for help and advice...

    ed-u.com pages on bullying:

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  • Bullying... Our Stories
  • David Bull - TV Doctor BBC Watchdog talks about Bullying
  • Share your thoughts and experiences at the Bullying Forums

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  • Bullying Online UK
  • Childline UK The free national helpline for children in danger or trouble
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  • No Bully - New Zealand
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  • The Samaritans Confidential Support UK and Republic of Ireland
  • The NCPCC - Problems at home or at school UK
  • Teachhealth How to Survive Stress
  • Anti-Bullying Network
  • Stress Education Center
  • National Bullying Advice Line - workplace and school UK
  • Teacherline - Helpline for Teachers UK
  • TeacherNet support for teachers UK




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    Cancer Research Campaign supports scheme to give nicotine patches to UK 12 year-old smokers. CRC and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund will trial the scheme at The Zone, a youth project in a deprived area of Nottingham, reports The Telegraph. "Kids can easily get hold of cigarettes," says the trial co-ordinator, "but can't obtain the NRT that might help them give up" ...More from What The Papers Say

    Biotechnology company Xenova trials anti-smoking vaccine. TA-NIC, a vaccine for the treatment of nicotine addiction, "will be tested on 50 smokers and 10 non-smokers," says Telegraph science editor Roger Highfield, "and works by 'mopping up' nicotine before it reaches the brain where it triggers addiction responses" ...More from What The Papers Say

    Welsh council allow school pupils to smoke in playground. Greenhill Special School, which has "severe behavioural problems," has made the controversial decision "to help run the school smoothly," says The Telegraph. In an unrelated story elsewhere in the paper, David Sapsted reports that a 15-year-old boy in Haverhill "needed treatment for shock after being locked in a police cell for five hours because his teacher caught him writing on a desk". And The Sun goes to Gloucester Primary in Peckham, where three Russian teachers are about to be joined by six Bulgarians in an effort to deal with a chronic staff shortage ...More from What The Papers Say

    Drugs, smoking and alcohol are all major killers, particularly in the west. The general view now is that if children do not start in the first place, then the "prevention rather than cure" rule applies. This is where teachers and parents can have an influence on children and whether they start or not...

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  • 32 Keys: A Collection of Ideas About Life
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  • BBC Health
  • Blind and Partially Sighted Resources - Internal Link
  • Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy
  • Can you stop worrying, please! - Internal Link
  • Careers Research & Advisory Center
  • Charter Counts - Ethics for Kids
  • CHI UK - The problems of highly intelligent children
  • Children-Special-Needs.org
  • Children in Distress
  • Civil Liberties and Human Rights - Internal Link
  • Clearasil Vertigo Lounge - spots treatment
  • Coach Your Critic Out - Internal Link
  • Convomania for sick and disabled kids
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  • Debt - Internal Link
  • Durex
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  • National Safe Kids
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Center
  • Parent Project UK - Boys with Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
  • Too Busy at Work? - Internal Link
  • Rape and Incest Information - Internal Link
  • Sex Education - Internal Link
  • The Samaritans UK - Coping with exam results
  • Self Esteem Coaching
  • Share your problem at the Online Forum - Internal Link
  • Special Needs Inclusion DfES/BECTA/NGfL UK
  • Tackling exam stress - University of Huddersfield
  • Violence Information - Internal Link
  • Weigth Watchers US
  • Wired for Health teacher and pupil advice - UK Government
  • Young Womens Page by Tampax

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