Sentences with phrase «equitable access to government»

This article is concerned with the interplay between Indigenous children and their families» equitable access to government - approved childcare services and their respective participation in such services.

Equity of access: Requirements of Indigenous families and communities to ensure equitable access to government - approved childcare settings in Australia, by Stephanie Jackiewicz (Telethon Institute for Child Health Research), Sherry Saggers and Kate Frances (Curtin University), Australasian Journal of Early Childhood — Vol.

In a landmark ruling released on January 26, 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services («FNCFS Program») and failing to implement Jordan's Principle to ensure equitable access to government services available to other children.

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Although the government offered a generic commitment to «fair and equitable access,» internal e-mails reveal persistent concerns about the clinic: «there is not a clear distinction between insured and uninsured services.»

In a brief address, the President indicated that the government views equitable expansion of access to education as important because second cycle education is a critical bridge that connects basic education to tertiary education and the world.

The right to «enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» elevates fundamental scientific values, such as equitable access to scientific and technical knowledge, scientific freedom, and international cooperation, to universal standards that governments everywhere must protect.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

«We believe the amendments to AB 1360 further affirm that all students have equitable access to enroll in a charter public school and are afforded essential due process rights in all dismissal proceedings,» said Carlos Marquez, SVP, Government Affairs, CCSA.

According to the state's plan to ensure equitable access to teachers, filed with the federal government, teachers on emergency - style permits are three times as likely to teach in California's high - minority schools and twice as likely to teach in high - poverty schools as in more advantaged schools.Torlakson, T. (2016, November 8).

Since 2002, the government has sought to achieve increased and equitable access to quality education at all levels through a variety of policy decisions, initiatives, and programs.

Thus, while the federal government provides less than 10 percent of the national education budget, it can leverage that funding to ensure equitable access to a quality education for all children.

We call for the establishment of a National Center for Climate Change Preparedness, which would serve as a coordinating entity and point of entry to the federal government for states and local communities facing a set of wide - ranging impacts, to allow full and equitable access to federal expertise and resources across multiple agencies and departments.

2) The joint failure of government and the legal profession to provide access to justice in Ontario (ie affordable legal services for the public and equitable access to the profession for qualified licensees) is reason enough to make the LPP permanent;

It finds that a previous government commitment to equitable access to legal representation has been replaced by a drive to secure convictions and to limit access to legal services.

As free, equitable access points to information, government institutions, and computing resources, libraries are key partners in that effort.

This first section of the chapter has provided an overview of the challenges facing the government in achieving equitable access to mainstream services for Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) asserts that a strong and visible commitment by governments to building a culturally safe and responsive health system that provides equitable access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to allied health services is required in order to really make a difference.

Governments that see care and education as a public responsibility increasingly integrate their care and education systems and are able, in consequence, to ensure better regulation, more equitable access and provide higher quality services to all children.

As they note, in order to «ensure equitable access to high - quality early care and education for all children, the federal government and the states should use consistent, high quality - standards across all public financing.»

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