Sentences with phrase «small number of programmes»

A small number of programmes, subject to specific references in the ATSIC Act, will remain with a remnant ATSIS body pending the passage of the Bill to abolish ATSIC.

Not exact matches

Decades of «renewal» programmes in parishes which have taken the form of marketing fresh insights to small «encounter groups», often under the banners of buzzwords written on posters reminiscent of the kind which were used to promote five - year plans in the Soviet bloc, have done nothing to increase the numbers of practising Catholics.

This is worthwhile but even a vast expansion of effective programmes would only make a small dent in prison numbers.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

More fundamentally, Leanne's victory will shift Welsh politics to the left, keeping Welsh Labour under pressure to maintain and strengthen its «clear red water» policy programme and to resist the influence of the small but highly - placed number of crypto - Blairites seeking to drag the party to the right.

This was of course a smaller number of complaints than the number of women who gave interviews to Channel 4 News last February attacking me All the publicity did not result in a single complaint, other than those featured in the Channel 4 programme.

Some question whether the relatively small numbers of lives that would be saved are justified by the significant cost of a vaccine programme.

«In addition, new technologies, such as small modular reactors (SMRs), are being researched and developed, and a number of large European - wide R&D programmes are being carried out».

The D&T Association has shown the positive impact of this type of collaboration via a number of small scale projects and, as a result, the D&T Association is now running its «Skills For Industry» (SFI) programme.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

Universities which run teacher training courses have received a letter from the Training Development Agency (TDA), which says secondary courses with small numbers of students will only be funded if they are delivered through «school - led programmes».

The Cupertino - based company has rolled out a battery replacement programme for a «very small number of iPhone 6s devices» that may unexpectedly shut down.

Dan is one of a small number of external facilitators who delivers EY's UK & I Inclusive Leadership programme as well as the Inclusive Leadership Masterclass programme for The Whitehall and Industry Group (WIG).

A very small number of UK voluntary organisation's scholarship programmes are open to international students depending upon their specific circumstances such as nationality, subject of study and age.

Starting pay in public service typically ranges from # 24,000 to # 30,000 for graduate schemes and is between # 15,000 and # 23,000 for the small number of higher apprenticeship programmes available.

A small number of firms offer summer schools for year 12 students — getting this kind of experience on your CV will make you more employable when applying for a school leaver programme.

Mothers assessed antenatally as having psychosocial distress showed benefit from the MECSH programme across a number of areas, including child development, their experience of being a mother, and small effects in a number of domains of the quality of the environment from a child development perspective; emotional and verbal responsivity, organisation of the environment and provision of appropriate play materials.

For example, the distribution of implementation costs across a larger number of attendees (cost per family of # 399 when 13 parents attending) increases the likelihood that the programme would be cost - effective given a # 20 000 threshold from 36 % to 49 % — using a 5 - year time horizon; whereas a smaller number of attendees (cost per parent of # 865 when six parents attending) reduce the likelihood to 26 % with a 5 - year time horizon.

Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting list control design, and as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.

In her role with KHF, Marguerite has supported the Director in relation to the overall strategic planning of the Foundation's work and in particular the planning and development of a number of new programmes / initiatives including the Tallaght West Small Grants Programme (2004 - 2006), the Parent and Toddler Group Initiative (2006 - 2008) and more recently with the Parenting Support Initiative (PSI)(2013 - 2016) and the new Nurture Programme - Infant Health and Wellbeing (2014 - 2017).

A large number of individuals with moderately increased risk levels contribute more cases than a small number with extreme risk levels.41 Parenting programmes that target high - risk populations therefore miss a substantial number of families who develop the problem even though they are not currently in the elevated risk group.3, 9,11 The potential impact of such programmes at the population level is therefore minimal as only a small proportion of families in the general population participate in evidence - based programmes.10, 11 As Rose emphasized more than a decade ago, strategies that focus on high - risk individuals will deal only with the margin of the problem and will not have impact on the general population.

Together these reviews also included a small number of studies of general population approaches described above (infant massage, the NBAS and treatment of post-natal depression) so there is some overlap with the reviews reported under «Perinatal programmes including antenatal parenting programmes and perinatal maternal mental health programmes».