Family Kids and Youth moderates the second ‘Dinosaur Summit’, discussing all things dinosaur with an larger than ever team.

The report has been peer reviewed by our Pedagogy Advisors, including Professor Colleen Mclaughlin, University of Cambridge and University of Sussex, and Professor David Buckingham, University of Loughborough. Results show that it does not work to merely give Tablets to each child to use in school and at home. Schools need to have committed leadership and ‘device champions’ amongst staff and pupils to demonstrate the capability of the device. Professional development linked to the school’s…
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The popular annual Children’s Media Conference (July 3-5) was bigger than ever this year and celebrated its 10th anniversary. Barbie chaired an insightful session on the place of edutainment in children’s lives. Thank you to all who took part. The Children’s Media Conference

Based on research with its clients FK&Y has identified key areas of interest for companies and organisations working with children, young people and their families, and will be producing robust literature based research reports on topics of interest. For more information contact: Julia@kidsandyouth.com

Dr Barbie Clarke co-wrote the literature review with colleagues at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge: Professor Colleen McLaughlin, Dr Carol Holliday and Sonia Illie. The report, which considers the importance of therapeutic support for children and young people, reviewed 517 papers. ‘Research on counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people’ Report

FK&Y is working with Honywood School, Coggeshall, Essex to train 32 young people from Years 7,8,9 and 10 in research methodology. A workshop was held at the school at which young people designed a questionnaire, and learnt ways in which to run a focus group. We look forward to working with our Honywood Researchers for the rest of this term.

FK&Y joined many of the Tablets for Schools sponsors at Greenford High School, Ealing. We were taken around the school by Year 7’s who told us what they liked most about using one-to-one devices at school and at home.

FK&Y hosted a Dinosaur Summit at our offices in Marylebone. An eclectic mix of experts from Random House, The Natural History Museum, Immediate Media, Early Years academics, and Digital and multi-platform experts joined us to discuss all things Dinosaur. It was enlightening and fun.

Barbie Clarke spoke at the Naace Conference to a large audience of school leadership, local authorities and advisors about research carried out the FK&Y on one-to-one tablet devices in schools. The talk can be seen here

Family Kids & Youth’s Barbie Clarke discussed children’s safe use of social networking sites on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Tuesday 5 February which was Safer Internet Day. Organised by 70 countries, Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of the challenges faced to ensure children are protected online. Safer Internet Day