Crime is just exactly that - crime. Why pander to what is supposed to be a small minority (as we are constantly told) by molly-coddling everyone?

We will soon have cradle-to-grave nannies disguised variously as social workers, health visitors, social-support officers, community support officers, special constables, equal opportunities commissions - the list is endless.

Risk is already a thing of the past; replaced by an ambulance-chasing brigade of so-called professionals who refute the existence of an accident. In their eyes all accidents have an identifiable villain and hence the attendant ever-growing list of litigants.

Children are at school to learn. If parents can no longer act as a cohesive partnership to bring up decent, law-abiding children then the root constructs of society and the family are failing.

No amount of state-sponsored cotton wool will solve the problem

Edwin Thornber, Bucharest,

The nanny state is alive and well and living in the UK. What ever happened to teaching and discipline. ? Oh, I forgot, the anti -Social Workers took over.

Desmond Taylor, Houston, USA Tx

When my son comes home from school he tell my wife and I of the violence, bullying and anti social behaviour that takes place in the school yard, playing fields, corridors and classroom.

Because of the lack of any real punishment (apart from a sanction) the bullies and thugs continue to wreak havoc as they know they can get away with it.

The sooner a police officer is in every school dealing with these offences, taking away the responsiblity from the teacher, the sooner these thugs will be taught that their behaviour is unacceptable. Law and order can only be improved if these thugs learn an early lesson rather than being allowed to get away with it and then continuing this behaviour in to adulthood.

Geoff, Swansea,

Staff are to contact parents and give regular progress reports...
When will a member of staff find the time to contact every parent or carer- especially teachers who are not based in school out of term time. Who will pay for the phone bill and over time?
Progress reports...again teachers have no time what so ever after marking work and writing general reports, lesson planning, and following every single guideline and procedure-taking them away from spending valuable time from their pupils.
So there's going to be social workers, police officers, language therapists, children's health care workers, benefits providers and youth offending teams all based in a school...hmmm and who will pay for the building work that every school will need in order to make it large enough for these workers to be based there, not to mention all the parents and general public that may be in and out using them. Will everyone (parents, carers and Public) that come into a school need a CRB check in advance?

Sarah, Scarborough,

It’s a “brave new world” not by design but by complacency. There is no accepted moral dictum and society is built on personal indulgence and not global need.

By no one having the leadership to say, “I have a set of morals that we should live by,” our society has become a slave to the selfish and the bully.

Schools are a mere reflection of this.

Dave Wood, warrington, warrington

This is a disastrous policy.

School ought to offer willing youngsters an opportunity to have a secure environment which takes them away from the problems at home for several hours a day. Putting all the social worker hangers on in there as well destroys the sense that a school is for teaching and learning.

MarkS, Leeds,

So in this new society, do parents have any responsibility in bringing up their children ?

Hamad Lone, London, England

If young offenders' courts were also incorporated for a one-stop experience, hearings could do double duty as real-time discipline and civic responsibility education.

Government educational research facilities could also be built-in to enable ongoing adaptive solution management for fully collaborative benchmark improvement.

Alternatively, they could just revert to concentrating on excellence in the core competency.

dr venables preller, Warminster, UK

This sounds great!

Stick loads of police officers from an already understaffed force on nanny duty in schools.
That way students can degrade his/her authority just like they have with teachers who aren’t allowed to discipline anymore.

Why can't labour get it into their heads that not every child is academically focused; we're already seeing a mass shortage in plasterers and craftsmen, although in today's society most of those people are seen merely as failures of the educational system for not studying film studies for 3 years at uni.

(Apologies in advance for the rant)

tom, UK,

But crime isn't just crime. People commit crimes for lots of reasons, among them poverty and a lack of support and guidance in childhood. Surely what the Children's Plan is doing is recognising that things can go wrong for children very early on through no fault of their own and that more support for them and their parents could prevent problems later? If it works, we could get happier children, less poverty and also less crime. Addressing the root causes has to be better than just building more prisons and banging people up.

Ben Coleman, London,

The problem with this policy is that it's based on the assumption that children are mentally ill or antisocial. This policy is an admission that British society is sick and needs nursing. What this government needs to do is get a grip on law and order, so that crime is treated as crime and education as education.

John Stitch, London, England