Scotcast - How to save childhood
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Willie French is a former head teacher with four decades of experience in primary schools.
He tells Martin why schools should delay formal education and help children learn old-fashioned life lessons like falling off bikes and out of trees.
And Rose Docherty, the first person charged with allegedly breaking Scotland’s abortion buffer zone law, learns she’ll face no further action.
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Published on Thursday, 14th August 2025.
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