The Week Junior, the UK's fastest growing
children's subscription magazine, which has had 50,000 subscriptions in two years, and OAT, a leading Multi-Academy Trust with 34 schools, decided to run the programme in response to growing evidence, such as leading
child development expert Dr Jacqueline Harding's research report done in partnership with The Week Junior, showing that
explaining and engaging
children in learning about current affairs has
development pupil benefits.
Avowed
child development experts and other moral watchdogs took to the chamber to
explain, without any tinge of sensational overreaction whatsoever, how games like Night Trap were making
children more prone to aggressive behavior and encouraged sexual violence against women.