This has particular impacts for women who have children or who have
other carer responsibilities.
Not exact matches
«Definition of «parent»: the word, «parent» is to mean, throughout the document, «mothers, fathers
carers and
other adults with
responsibility for caring for a child» — in line with the National Service Framework for Children, which has the same definition.
Other pupils fail to engage with mainstream education because their personal circumstances make it unmanageable: they may have lost parents or
carers, suffered abuse at home, be struggling with mental illness, or balancing caring
responsibilities with their own education.
For example, it is common in Western industrialised societies like Australia for parents and
carers to value children's independence, whereas parents and
carers from
other cultural backgrounds sometimes give more emphasis to family
responsibilities than to children's independence.
«The Kinship Care Alliance warmly welcomes the announcement by Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, of a year's exemption from conditionality under Universal Credit for grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles and
other relatives and friends (kinship)
carers who are taking on the
responsibility for bringing up children who are unable to live with their parents.
the need to safeguard / promote the welfare of the disabled child and any
other child for whom the parent
carer has parental
responsibility.
Specialist legal advice for grandparents, including local authority
responsibilities and
other issues affecting kinship
carers.