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University of Manchester.
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Sue Palmer
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She has written over 200 books, television programmes, and software packages for children and teachers. As an independent consultant, she has worked with the DfES, National Literacy Trust, Basic Skills Agency, numerous educational publishers, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2004, she collaborated with Early Years specialist Ros Bayley to produce Foundations of Literacy, now in its third edition lieutenant was followed by a ‘self-help’ book for parents, Detoxing Childhood, and 21st Century Boys: how modern life can drive them off the rails, and how we can get them back on track, for publication in 2009.
Since researching Toxic Childhood, she has become involved in many campaigns relating to children's well-being and mental health.
She was named among the top twenty most influential people in British education in the Evening Standard’s 2008 Influentials list. The Daily Telegraph published a letter she wrote with child specialist Richard House.
Signed by over a hundred experts, they call for a national debate on child education.
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