Sentences with phrase «cent of children less»

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

Not exact matches

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

Part of the reason for this older generation's view may be due to their belief that, by comparison, their children's generation faces more financial pressures (61 per cent) and is less prepared for retirement (59 per cent).

In Chile in 1960, 90 per cent of women were breast feeding their children after the first year: by 1968, that figure had dropped to less than 10 per cent.

Protein digestibility corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) shall not be less than 70 per cent of the World Health Organization (WHO) amino acid pattern for children between the ages of two and five.

Speaking to the House of Commons yesterday, paymaster general Dawn Primarolo insisted the tax credit was benefiting six million families and ten million children, and highlighted a take - up of 93 per cent among families on less than # 10,000 a year.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

And yet almost 70 per cent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, and 15 per cent of Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday.

Less than 5 per cent of the world's children are fully immunised when you add BCG (for tuberculosis), measles, rubella, polio, hepatitis B (hep B), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.

Forty one per cent of schools are «less than satisfactory in this respect», and children's understanding of maths is «particularly weak in half of all schools».

A world in which ectogenesis — the artificial development and «birth» of human embryos outside the womb — is the norm, «and less than 30 per cent of children are... born of woman», a world of ectogenetic parents selected to improve the quality of the gene pool, advancing each generation in any desired respect «from the increased output of first - class music to... decreased convictions for theft».

The company found that 21 per cent of children play outdoors compared with 71 per cent of their parents when they were children, and that in the UK, we are 20 per cent less active than we were in 1961.

Modern children spend, on average, just 9 per cent of their time outside, a lot less than previous generations.

When the teachers are of mind to lower the school walls, to genuinely collaborate with homes, to distribute the control of the learning and teaching, to understand that formal schooling occupies less than 20 per cent of the children's learning time each year and to recognise the learning and teaching occurring in the remaining 80 per cent, the school can then seriously contemplate a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) program.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

It cites figures showing just 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls met recommended guidelines for moderate exercise per day and that British children born today were on course to be 35 per cent less active by 2035.

Wilshaw named 16 local authorities where less than 60 per cent of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE with 13 in the North and Midlands.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

In the most prosperous areas, only eight per cent of children are in early years provision that is less than good.

This completely misses the reality that teaching, while important, occupies less than 20 per cent of the child's learning and teaching time each year.

Yet according to the government, less than 10 per cent of school children have access to outdoor learning.

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Children have fewer opportunities to be outdoors than their parents enjoyed — 33 per cent of families spend less time outdoors than in the previous generation.

Primary schools with less than 85 per cent of children achieving level 4, over each of three years, and with below average proportions of pupils making expected progress between the ages of seven and eleven will also be defined as coasting.

It was one of 16 where less than 60 per cent of children attend a good or outstanding secondary school and have lower than average attainment and progress at GCSE.

Research shows that, on average, the proportion of pupils in grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals is less than 3 per cent, and the Labour MP Lisa Nandy (pictured top) warned today that the government's proposals could see it «inflict an experiment» on millions of children based on «flimsy evidence» in favour of grammars.

Where a spouse exercises a right of access to, or has physical custody of, a child for not less than 40 per cent of the time over the course of a year, the amount of the child support order must be determined by taking into account

In the challenge, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reseChild and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off resechild - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reserves.

«For instance, the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in Melbourne has immunisation rates that show an average of 91 per cent of their child patients are fully immunised, compared with rates of less than 50 per cent for Aboriginal children across Victoria.»

Less than 10 per cent of children with ID and mental health problems receive specific assistance for these problems.»

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children make up less than 6 per cent of children aged 10 - 17 years, but they make up 54 per cent of children in prison in Australia.