A report summarized evidence on children's lifestyles submitted to an independent enquiry. It highlighted the increasing degree to which children and young people were preoccupied with material possessions, and the psychological effects on children of commercial pressures.
Source: Good Childhood: What You Told Us About Lifestyle, Children's Society (020 7841 4415)
Links: Report | Children's Society press release | BBC report | Guardian report | Telegraph report
Date: 2008-Feb
A report examined the scale of advertising of women, and services offered by women, in personal classifieds in the English regional and local press. The advertising of women, either discreetly or overtly, for sex or sexual services was commonplace. Typically, these advertisements were sandwiched between innocuous advertisements for other services and goods.
Source: 'Women Not for Sale': A report on advertising women in small ads in local newspapers, Government Equalities Office (ministers@dwp.gsi.gov.uk)
Links: Report
Date: 2008-Jan