Sentences with phrase «of early years services»

This is important because legislative powers and policy development in the areas of early years services, child health and education - areas key to supporting children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties - are devolved.

«Ofsted ratings for Early Years were up again last year across the board, while the reputable Economist Intelligence Unit survey published last year (1), places the UK third in its international table for quality of Early Years Services (EYS), with France placed ninth.

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LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables freelancers to promote their business and be found by those in need of their services.

In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

To counter the fall in downloads, Apple plans to bundle the music streaming service it acquired as part of the $ 3 billion Beats Electronics deal earlier this year into its iOS operating system, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Services revenue increased only 18 % from a year earlier in the just completed quarter, the first of Apple's 2017 fiscal year.

(Netflix has before offered logic that can appear perplexing; earlier this year, the company said it doesn't offer downloads of movies because of the «complexity» of such a service.)

A group of web companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter signed an EU hate speech accord earlier this year that requires them to respond within 24 hours to notifications about hate speech on their services.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

• Meituan - Dianping, China's biggest on - demand online services provider, has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley to work on an IPO in Hong Kong slated for as early as this year, Reuters reports citing sources.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

Beats Music launched earlier this year, and the company has mounted an aggressive campaign to thrust the service deep into the pool of music streaming competitors that include Pandora and Spotify.

By the fall of 2010, just a year after the buyout, Skype was surging: Users had climbed to 600 million from about 400 million a year earlier — and it saw rising usage of its video calling services.

In order to stand out, smaller sites need to aggressively differentiate themselves, Jeremy Edwards, a lead industry analyst at IBISWorld and author of the 2013 Dating Services in the U.S. industry report, told Entrepreneur.com earlier this year.

Kane points out that a shortage of ski instructors and service workers prompted the federal government to ease restrictions for Banff, Alta., and Whistler, B.C., earlier this year.

And indeed, other tech giants are interested; Amazon, for one, launched Amazon Home Services earlier in the year, in an effort to get a piece of this potentially lucrative market.

Uber's loss follows an earlier one last year where the Luxembourg - based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) classified the company as a transport service rather than a digital one, which stripped it of protections against undue national regulation that digital services enjoy under EU law.

During Zappos's early years, Hsieh decided that customer service was the most important function of his company and proceeded to craft dozens of counterintuitive policies that lavished benefits on the low - wage workers who answered the phones.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

In the CDC survey for the second half of 2016, 50.8 % of households had only mobile service, up from 48.3 % a year earlier.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services has won a number of new contracts and renewals with Newmont Mining, with 15 rigs expected to be in operation by early next year.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

«The high adoption rate of AWS cloud services by organizations around the globe has translated into some of the top salaries for those IT professionals choosing to pursue these certifications in particular,» Global Knowledge said in a blog post from earlier this year.

The new Nike + app, which executives previewed earlier this year at a media event held in New York City, will give users a mix of services (booking one - on - one retail appointments), training and running advice tips, shopping tips, and a form of social commerce that has become increasingly popular in the athletics category.

Career services offices are responding by offering more intensive career prep to students, from career workshops as early as freshman year to hosting industry panels in growing areas of finance, such as investment management.

«Steve was in your face, screaming, and Tim is more quiet, more cerebral in his approach,» said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, in an interview with Fast Company earlier this year.

Two year old federal net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing websites and online services, could be an early casualty of the new Trump administration.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 4 - The value of retail purchases with the Danish national debit card, Dankort, grew 4.8 percent in September from a year earlier to 24.5 billion Danish crowns, card payment services firm Nets said on Thursday.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 4 (Reuters)- The value of retail purchases with the Danish national debit card, Dankort, grew 4.8 percent in September from a year earlier to 24.5 billion Danish crowns, card payment services firm Nets said on Thursday.

And last month, an international financial group owned by the world's central banks said Canada's credit - to - gross - domestic - product and debt - service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the domestic banking system in the coming years.

Earlier this year, MetLife rolled out The Wall, a Facebook - like application that provides service and sales reps in call centers with an overview of customers.

Then, for good measure, we threw into the mix Altrec.com, which earlier this year added adventure - travel services to its outdoor - gear site through an alliance with Virtuoso, a network of independent travel specialists.

Earlier this year, the company expanded its service to include all of the paperwork involved in hiring — from the offer letter to the contract, to collecting all of the personal information HR needs.

«In the early years, for one fund family, you'll find more «risky» equity exposure to growth - oriented stocks, but toward the later years, it's more value - oriented equity exposure,» said Aaron Pottichen, president of retirement services at CLS Partners in Austin, Texas.

Early on Wednesday, the board issued a statement saying, «The Board of Directors held a meeting Wednesday, October 29 at 8 am and decided unanimously to remove Christopher A. Viehbacher as Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi,» after six years of service.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI), which handles customer disputes for Scotiabank, CIBC and Bank of Montreal, says it opened 370 banking - related investigations in 2017 to handle customer disputes for its clients, compared with 290 a year earlier.

The fresh numbers come as an international financial group owned by the world's central banks says Canada's credit - to - gross - domestic - product and debt - service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the banking system in the coming years.

It proved a proper capper for Swift's return to Spotify just two months earlier, after years of feuding with streaming services over royalties.

A year earlier, baby - faced Camp sold StumbleUpon, a web - curating service he and two fellow grad students at the University of Calgary built from the ground up, to eBay for US$ 75 million.

It reports $ 110 million of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year - earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

War veterans are comprised of individuals of all ages; many are in service from their late teenage years to their early twenties, entering the workforce at the same time as a university graduate.

The claims run the gamut: One service, called Profile Defenders, claimed earlier this year that it «100 % guarantees to get rid of unwanted Yelp results» for a base fee of $ 5,000.

«We met with the Facebook team earlier this year, and immediately began development of this service for our customers.»

Another way to put it: Apple's services division is so powerful that as of earlier this year it could be spun off on its own into a Fortune 100 company.

In early April, a 39 - year old shooter opened fire at the headquarters of Google - owned video service YouTube, wounding several people before killing herself.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.