Sentences with phrase «cent of children on»

Their research found that, in 2002, 22 per cent of children on free school meals in London gained five or more A * - C GCSEs, including English and Maths.

However, research by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that primary schools with more than 40 per cent of children on free school meals will on average lose # 473 per pupil.

This lack of understanding is clearly having an impact in schools, with surveys indicating that 63 per cent of children on the autism spectrum have faced bullying, often due to fellow students misunderstanding their behaviour.

Not exact matches

Family Caregiver Tax Credit Caregivers of infirm dependants (including spouses, common - law partners and minor children) will be able to claim a 15 per cent non-refundable tax on $ 2,000 (indexed for inflation) if receiving a dependency - related credit such as the Child Tax Credit, Infirm Dependant Credit, or the Caregiver Credit.

Parents hoping to teach their children the power of compound interest on their savings today will have a harder time than parents in the 1970s and 1980s, when interest paid on savings accounts soared above 10 per cent compared with rates today, when even the highest - paying savings accounts sit in the low single digits.

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.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

Heisel reported a study comparing Japanese and American children's TV programs, whose results revealed that there were even few older characters on the Japanese shows: 4 per cent of all speaking roles, as compared to 9 per cent for the U.S..

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

He said: «It's encouraging that clergy are among the five most trusted groups especially as most children don't see much of them with just 2 per cent of people going to church on a Sunday.

I would not give one cent to the collection plate if i attended service on Sundays in the catholic church, why defend them, they don't deserve it, to make someone elses life miserable for the rest of those poor innocent childrens life.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

Figures published by Adoption Match show that in August 2016, there were 366 children on the register compared with 825 at the beginning of July this year - 28 per cent of those had BAME ethnicity.

About half the material in his children's record is familiar («I asked my mother for 50 cents, / To see the elephant jump the fence») but the remainder is often electrifying: a combination of homemade Mother Goose rhymes and wild jungle rhythms, with Negro and Puerto Rican children beating on homemade drums, wooden benches and metal wastepaper baskets.

«cents Use physical «time in,» including hugs, kisses, pats on the back, tussles of the hair, sitting close to your child, and so on.

Children scoring in the bottom 10 per cent of these domains were considered «developmentally vulnerable», and children who were «developmentally vulnerable» on two or more domains were classified as «developmentally high riskChildren scoring in the bottom 10 per cent of these domains were considered «developmentally vulnerable», and children who were «developmentally vulnerable» on two or more domains were classified as «developmentally high riskchildren who were «developmentally vulnerable» on two or more domains were classified as «developmentally high risk».

Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

Seventy - three per cent of parents agreed that pressures on schools to bring in Gove's reforms could harm their child's progress.

For example, 62 per cent of families in the bottom income quintile would like, but can not afford, to take their children on holiday for one week a year.5

Building on previous estimates on the overall irregular migrant population and including recent migration in - and out - flows, COMPAS researchers estimate a population of 120,000 irregular migrant children in the UK — that is the 0.9 per cent of overall UK's under 18 population.

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.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are satisfied that he has already shifted the terms of debate leftwards on issues such as the 1 per cent public - sector pay cap — which all of the candidates oppose — and the child tax credit cuts.

In 1979, 50 per cent of lone parents on Supplementary Benefit (the forerunner of Income Support) received child maintenance.

More than 90 cents on every dollar of funding we receive goes directly back to local CACs to help and protect kids, while the rest bolsters the national movement to provide evidence - based support for children and families experiencing abuse.

Billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg gave $ 150,000 on April 15 to support a campaign dubbed «San Franciscans United to Reduce Diabetes in Children by Imposing a 1 Cent Per Ounce Tax on the Distribution of Sugary Drinks.»

«Half of all children killed or seriously injured on the roads in England come from deprived areas and this is reflected in the fact that 90 per cent of those killed globally are from low and middle income countries.»

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

In order to evaluate the potential long - term impact of federally recommended policies, investigators used a set of criteria to select three policies to reduce childhood obesity from among 26 recommended policies: afterschool physical activity programs, a one cent per ounce excise tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs), and a ban on child - directed fast food television advertising.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

The study showed that more children had epilepsy when they reached the age of four to eight years with seven per cent on regular medication.

At two years, seven per cent of the children had an epilepsy diagnosis, however, far fewer, only two per cent, were on regular antiepileptic drugs.

We only have data on children for a limited number of shipwrecks, but it is evident that they have really bad survival prospects: just 15 per cent.

Analyses of their blood samples showed that, on average, just under two per cent of the children's total blood fatty acids were Omega - 3 DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) and 0.5 per cent were Omega - 3 EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid), with a total of 2.45 per cent for these long - chain Omega - 3 combined.

However, the UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics points out that just 0.1 per cent of the child's DNA would come from the donor.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

Drawing from a sample of 1,450 parents, half of all respondents answered that they'd like to see photographs and videos on their child's school website, and 38 per cent wanted to see more pupil content.»

A Freedom of Information investigation by Children and Young People Now magazine in 2013 found that 31 per cent of local authorities closed public playgrounds between 2010 and 2013 and cut spending on play by 38.8 per cent during the same period (# 67.9 million in 2010/11 — # 41.5 million in 2013/14).

Up to 79 per cent of children who are obese in their teens are likely to remain obese as adults, according to NICE's guideline on managing overweight and obesity among children and young people.

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

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) based its report on the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats parties» spending pledges, and is understood to have found a real - terms reduction of seven per cent per child by the end of the next government.

On top of the 60 per cent pass rate for GCSEs, Morgan explained the new «Progress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary education.

Level 4 is the minimum requirement necessary for children to go on and successfully secure five GCSEs at A * - C. Of those pupils who do not attain level 4, just six per cent continue to achieve five good GCSEs.

While the website is both fun and educational, it also teaches children how to keep themselves safe online, with 95 per cent of kids on SuperClubsPLUS learning and practising «safe online» behaviours no matter where they go on the internet.

Children's charity Barnardo's is calling on the government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children's centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent sinChildren's charity Barnardo's is calling on the government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children's centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent sinchildren's centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent since 2010.

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

The charity consulted 1,167 youngsters aged between 11 and 15, with 73 per cent of those polled believing children would be safer if classes on the subject was provided.

Reporting on a wide range of developing countries, the Global School - based Health Survey recently found that between 20 and 65 per cent of school - aged children reported having been verbally or physically bullied in the past 30 days.