Save Childhood Movement - Our aims and objectives

Aims

To bring together all those who are concerned about the current erosion of childhood 
in the United Kingdom and to assist other countries with the same issue to do the same

To highlight the vital importance of both parent and teacher wellbeing 

To identify the core problems and to start seeking cultural and political solutions


Objectives

To initiate a national debate on societal values and wellbeing - this to include
the purpose of education and the definition of success

To promote the values, rights and freedoms of parents and teachers as vital for the wellbeing of children

To ensure that states of wellbeing are given the same prominence as skills of the intellect

To identify, and draw national and international attention to, the developmentally inappropriate pressures
that are compromising children's natural physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development  

To protect children, particularly in the early years, from the unforeseen social and emotional impact of screen technology
and to develop guidelines that also acknowledge and celebrate the benefits of the digital world

To protect children's interests under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and to highlight those articles 
concerning natural developmental rights that are currently not being met

To call for the creation of a new multidisciplinary and apolitical body that would act as 
advisor to government on the preservation and protection of children’s natural developmental rights

To develop new, inspiring and innovative approaches that serve the true needs of the developing child