Sentences with phrase «child labour at»

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She said her boss is sometimes «misunderstood» and she chalks up his speech at the BALLE BC conference and the child labour ad as examples of this.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

CGF Social Sustainability Director Didier Bergeret speaks at the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in Buenos Aires

Poor working conditions and child labour issues continue to plague the clothing the clothing industry and some consumers are unaware that cheap clothes come at a cost to people and the environment.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Research funded by the ESRC and conducted at the University of Bristol has looked at the impact of fatherhood on men's employment and found that although overall fatherhood status is largely irrelevant for men's level of engagement with the labour market, there is some accommodation in work hours in the first year of a child's life.

First child, laboured at home for as long as possible, birthing ball, birthing pool, moved body according to instinct, natural high

When my older children announced that they didn't want to be packed off when I went into labour, and the midwives were happy for them to be around, I knew I should try and prepare them for birth at home.

If you end up having a difficult labour, ask yourself if it is better to let my child see me at rock bottom, or delay seeing them until the next day?

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

Chaired by NASUWT President Geoff Branner, the meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester highlighted how savage economic policies are wreaking havoc on children's education.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

At a Labour Party news conference Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson were asked about why the company which licenses children's TV character Peppa Pig pulled her out of a Labour Party election event.

Well yes money is short but perhaps Labour should look at children like they look at Bankers, our future, I'm sure labour will find a few billionLabour should look at children like they look at Bankers, our future, I'm sure labour will find a few billionlabour will find a few billion then.

When asked again in 2016, this time by Labour MP Stephen Timms, the department failed to provide any figure at all, instead Timms was told that the government is «committed to eliminating child poverty».

The narrator neglects to mention, of course, some of the ostensibly insignificant issues confronting British people at the time, such as the absence of workers» rights, child labour, slum housing and mass poverty.

Welfare reforms are labours, we know Ms Cooper stated she was looking at child benefits but it would cost to much, in other words she was going to means test.

Welsh Labour today promised to put children and young people at the heart of government if elected for a third term in next week's assembly election.

Labour MPs cheered like happy children at Prime Minister's Questions.

The Labour leader headed to Leyland in Lancashire to talk about Labour's free school meals pledge and to show a group of children at a holiday club how to make a cake.

While some Labour MPs have bitten their tongues over Tory plans to limit child tax credits to the first two children, Phillips speaks her mind as we sit down at one of the tables behind Portcullis House on a hot summer day.

[52] Cable was praised during his tenure for his performances at Prime minister's questions over the Northern Rock crisis, HMRC's loss of child benefit data, and the 2007 Labour party donation scandal.

Speaking at a Flying Start centre in Pembrokeshire First Minister, Carwyn Jones, said the number of children benefitting from Flying Start provision under Labour in Wales had increased from 18,000 to 33,000 contrasting with cuts by the Tories to Sure Start in England which has seen 720 centres close and the loss of 40,000 childcare places.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest... Read more

Their activities are not only destroying the country's land and water bodies, but also causing children to drop out of school to work at mining sites in order to make quick money — in clear violation of Ghana's laws on child labour.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action GrouAt the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Grouat the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

Child poverty was cut back at a scale and pace which was simply better than any other industrial nation during that period - even if Labour missed its 2010 interim target.

New Labour's Child Trust fund is a significant policy to recapitalize the poor, by using general taxation (which is progressive) to give every child a grant at their birth, a bigger grant too poor kids, and an opportunity to save intChild Trust fund is a significant policy to recapitalize the poor, by using general taxation (which is progressive) to give every child a grant at their birth, a bigger grant too poor kids, and an opportunity to save intchild a grant at their birth, a bigger grant too poor kids, and an opportunity to save into it.

Finally, look at Chuka Umunna, who betrayed a contemptuous attitude in his Newsnight interview in which he compared Labour members and supporters to «petulant children».

The Labour MP used a weekend interview to float ideas including abolishing the extended summer holiday for schools and paying women up to # 25,000 in advance child benefit payments to allow them to stay at home and look after young children.

Ministers all but admitted that Labour had abandoned the 2010 goal of halving child deprivation from the 3.4 m total at the turn of the millennium but insisted that the party was committed to abolishing it entirely by 2020.

Increases in child benefit will be capped at one percent until 2017, if Labour win the next general election.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest in the world.

11 am update: Sky News is now reporting that a third Labour MP is to quit - Beverley Hughes, Children's minister will step down as MP for Stretford and Urmston in Greater Manchester at the general election.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

In fact this seems like a proper diversion from the real issue Labour should be tackling the SNP on at the moment and that is their statement that they will give «serious consideration'to Cameron's proposals to kill Syrian children.

This generational disconnect is inevitable, in politics as in other spheres, but it affects the Labour Party worse than other parties because Labour was founded to represent a single class, and now it's arrived at a situation where the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith, the children of peers and academics, have to dig up grandparents in the hope of connecting with that class they don't really understand.

Adrienne Long, from the Office of Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labour Affairs at the U.S Department of Labour was at the Agency's headquarters recently where she met with the DG, Dame Julie Okah - Donli, as part of her visit to Abuja.

Child poverty peaked at 4.3 million in the Thatcher - Major years and, mainly because of child tax credits, fell significantly under LaChild poverty peaked at 4.3 million in the Thatcher - Major years and, mainly because of child tax credits, fell significantly under Lachild tax credits, fell significantly under Labour.

«Why vote for a poor imitation that has overseen an increase in child poverty and the biggest increase since devolution of those people classified as poor despite being at work, when you can have the real thing in the progressive Labour party.

But a Labour source said: «It is easy for rich Tories with big houses to have grown - up children at home while they find their feet.

Labour is making the fight against child poverty a central aim because the party feels «outrage» at the waste of lives, unlike the Tories who pay «lip service» to the government's commitments, a senior cabinet minister said yesterday.

Speaking at the Labour Party's Welsh conference in Llandudno, Carwyn Jones has announced that the Welsh Government will scrap child burial costs in Wales.

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According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Labour's plan to provide every child with free school meals would come at a «significant cost» and might not improve pupil outcomes.

Following Team GB's success at the Rio Olympic Games, Labour's Deputy Leader Tom Watson has criticised the government for selling off playing fields and cutting programmes that give children access to high quality sports provision.

In the second lesson students look more specifically at the issue of global flows in waste; in particular e-waste, the patterns and causes as well as the problems of lack of regulation, child labour and toxic waste exposure.

«Labour will fiercely oppose this top - down, costly reorganisation of our schools, which nobody wants and schools don't need, ensure there is proper oversight of all our schools, and put local parents and communities at the heart of decisions when it comes to their children's schools.»