Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable children»

We are a leading provider of foster care with a reputation for excellence and one simple goal — to improve the lives of vulnerable children.
It delivers a broad range of services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families who fall below the threshold for statutory child protection intervention.
But we also need proposals that bring healing and hope to the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children, as well.
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This study aims to identify the risk and protective factors most associated with cognitive / language and socio - emotional development of vulnerable children receiving preventive or protective services.
But decisions about the future of each vulnerable child should reflect their specific needs and circumstances and must never be driven by a local authority's wish to look good in a performance table.
When bus drivers do not adhere to proper bus - handling protocol or traffic laws, they put dozens of vulnerable children at risk.
He says the judge's decision in this case shows the family justice system works effectively to promote and safeguard the welfare of vulnerable children.
Early intervention is essential to reduce the number of vulnerable children and families in our community.
While therapists generally believe in parental commitment (because of vulnerable children), many see marital commitment as a matter of contractual relationship between independent adults.
We believe that high - quality early childhood services are the most powerful tool to improve the life chances of vulnerable children.
This is especially true of vulnerable children, like those in child protective services.
Their commitment and passion for improving the lives of vulnerable children, young people and families results in some amazing outcomes.
Results suggest the importance of taking action at several systemic levels to improve the development of vulnerable children.
Relatives and friends taking on the care of a vulnerable child in an emergency 13.
For more information see: advice sheets 12: Relatives and freinds taking on the care of a vulnerable child in an emergency and 21: Support for relatives and friends who are caring for someone else's child.
It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.
USAID's Displaced Children and Orphans Fund provides financial and technical assistance for the care and protection of vulnerable children, particularly those who are outside of family care or are at risk of losing family care and protection.
«The arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the safeguarding of hundreds of vulnerable children is welcome news».
«This guidance aims to define how the social and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable children aged under 5 years can be supported through home visiting, childcare and early education.
Katie Purser is recruitment director for Frontline, a graduate scheme to transform the lives of vulnerable children by recruiting and developing future leaders in social work and broader society.
When it reached the full Senate, the bill, which has passed the House, faced no opposition — after all, who is in favor of selling the bodies of vulnerable children?
The brother of Jesus defined true religion as caring for orphans and widows in their distress (James 1:27), and from the perspective of the prophets, few things stir God's righteous anger more than neglect of vulnerable children, as Isaiah's call to repentance reflects:
From a gang culture that has gone mainstream to the impact of drugs, from mental health issues to the exploitation of vulnerable children, there isn't one reason for the rise in violence and there's certainly not one solution.
Please pray that God would inspire the hearts of international leaders, and raise up people who will transform the lives of vulnerable children affected by this crisis.»
Mohan Seevaratnam, who adopted his son at two months old, told Premier how Christians should approach this issue of vulnerable children.
The international children's charity has encouraged churches to use Halloween as a way to engage more children with the the Gospel message, while raising awareness of the plight of vulnerable children around the world.
If the government genuinely believes its own frequent claim that Britain has a proud tradition of protecting refugees, it shouldn't let an obsession with throwing people behind bars simply because they've sought protection here take priority over the wellbeing and safety of vulnerable children.
«The placement of vulnerable children and young persons with complex needs in YOIs [youth offenders institutes] may result in increased risk of self - harm and suicide, which are often difficult for staff to manage effectively, even with the benefit of the policies and procedures which are in place.»
Perhaps the greatest testimony to Levine's passion and power of persuasion is that decisionmakers in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and New York City have invested good money and staked the learning of vulnerable children on Schools Attuned, not with solid evidence of efficacy, but because it sounded good to them - they didn't have anything else to go on.
He is the author of The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do About It (Addison - Wesley, 1996), named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10 education books of all time.
«The lesson of the civil rights movement and community is that the federal government is the defender of vulnerable children and we are worried that with new state and local authority, vulnerable children are going to be at risk.»
The author points to U.S. political shifts and changing federal policy in education as catalysts for the social and cultural exclusion of vulnerable children of color.
The trust hit back at the DfE's decision to issue a pre-termination warning notice, in a press release which condemned the action as «a misguided judgment that will put the education of vulnerable children at risk» and «ignores two years of good progress at the school».
The establishment of The Foundling Hospital in 1739 marked a sea change in society's treatment of vulnerable children.
George says: «Under these changes we could see very personal details of vulnerable children and adults published in local and national newspapers and online.
Proposals contained in Pt 2 of the Children, Schools and Families Bill, announced in last month's Queen's Speech, lack sufficient clarity about what can be reported and could put the privacy of vulnerable children at risk, according to a briefing paper published by the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
In some cases, this policy jeopardized the lives of vulnerable children from so - called designated countries who could not obtain health care while in Canada.
Child injury lawyer, Jeffrey Killino, understands your need for information as the concerned parent of a vulnerable child.
Research in such diverse fields as epidemiology, neuroscience, genomics, and molecular and developmental biology is advancing our understanding of how social risk factors, manifesting as toxic stress, get «under the skin» of vulnerable children via epigenetic changes and disruptions to key physiological and neurocognitive pathways.
Calling for governments to «think outside the bars», for the sake of vulnerable children and young people
The structural equation modeling analyses revealed that HIV - related stigma had a positive direct effect on problem behaviors of vulnerable children, while HIV - related stigma and low education aspiration had direct negative effects on school adjustment among both orphans and vulnerable children.
Dr. Acosta Price has a strong interest in prevention and early intervention programs that address the mental health needs of vulnerable children and their families, and has developed and evaluated programs promoting mental health and resilience conducted in school and community settings.
That is why we raise money to feed and educate thousands of vulnerable children in Africa.
«We are seeking to vacate the arbitrator's decision to prevent this inappropriate conduct from recurring and to protect the interests of vulnerable children,» Law Department spokesman Nick Paolucci told DNAinfo New York.
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