Sentences with phrase «vulnerable children face»

The project ran from 2007 to 2012 and was established in response to research that shows that the barriers vulnerable children face at the start of school could be overcome if there were stronger links and partnerships between schools, early years services, families and the community.
I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.
Vulnerable children facing abuse could be affected by spending cuts undermining child protection services, MPs have warned.

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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?
Erica Hall, World Vision UK's Technical Policy Lead on Child Protection said: «Children are vulnerable in the face of conflict.
Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.
What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect
Racing - inspired full - body side impact protection with metal reinforced side wings designed to protect each of the 5 vulnerable areas of a child in a side impact crash: head, neck, face, torso and pelvis
The Recaro Performance BOOSTER High Back Booster Car Seat has racing - inspired side impact protection, memory foam for comfort, 11 - position headrest, and a coolmesh air ventilation system to keep your child comforted in whatever weather.It also has side body impact protection, designed to protect the 5 most vulnerable areas of a child: head, neck, face, torso and pelvis.
We should focus mostly on the more common frontal collisions but keeping our children rear facing for a long time is also a great way to keep vulnerable head and neck area well protected in side impact collisions.
This is because a child's body below this age is particularly vulnerable to forceful impacts, and a rear facing seat will provide the additional protection they need in the event of a collision.
The car seat's enhanced side wings protect the five most vulnerable areas of your child's body including his head, neck, face, torso and pelvis.
The Maxi Cosi RodiFix features Air Protect Side Impact Technology that protects the most vulnerable areas of your child — head, face, neck and torso.
If the harness straps are above the child's shoulders when rear facing, the child would continue to ride up the seat back and potentially expose their head above the car seat shell, leaving their head vulnerable to injury.
«The rear - facing seat is able to support the child's head, neck and spine, and keep those really vulnerable body regions well protected,» Mansfield explained.
The Maxi Cosi RodiFix features Air Protect Side Impact Technology that protects the most vulnerable areas of your child — head, face and neck.
The vulnerable users in question are children who may enjoy squirting water from bath toys into their faces.
Racing - Inspired full body Side Impact Protection with deep side wings keeps your child safe and is designed to protect each of the 5 vulnerable areas of a child in a side impact crash - their head, face, neck, torso and pelvis.
Dramatic Need helps vulnerable children in Africa build hope and self - belief in the face of conflict, trauma, and hardship, using the creative arts as a nonthreatening way of addressing development issues and trauma in children.
Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish - speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes.
We plan to use this opportunity to push forward the national and global dialogue on how best to train multidisciplinary professionals for the complex challenges they face in working with the most vulnerable children and youth in our schools and communities.
In nearly every case, our most vulnerable children are the first to be excluded from these «new» schools, while the remaining students are faced with barely - trained, inexperienced and often temporary teachers.
These social - emotional competencies are especially critical for the vulnerable children that WINGS serves, many of whom live in low - income neighborhoods and face significant challenges in their home lives.
In fact, the net effect of Governor Malloy's unethical teacher evaluation system is that teachers who have the courage, conviction and principles to serve students who live in poverty, who face English Language barriers or wo need special education services will be disproportionately punished for devoting their professional lives to educating our society's most vulnerable children.
Climate change impacts add to the cumulative stresses currently faced by vulnerable populations including children, the elderly, the poor, some communities of color, and people with chronic illnesses.
Conclusion: Among others, the «lessons» that can be gleaned from the VTech and VTech USA cases include: (i) IoT / connected toys and devices remain very vulnerable in the face of haphazard / sloppy security practices; (ii) inadequate security safeguards will no longer be tolerated by regulators, particularly when children's information or other sensitive information is involved; (iii) robust and adequate security safeguards involve multi-level tiers of protection per the above; (iv) vendors should never misrepresent the state of their security practices in their privacy policies; and (iv) in a connected world, regulators are willing to work together and share data and resources to combat «deceptive and unfair practices that cross national borders» (in the words of the FTC).
The fact is that anyone can become a McKenzie Friend, and prey on the vulnerable, and let's face it, the majority of people going through a relationship break - up, loss of house, children and dignity, can be at their most vulnerable.
In recent years, Ms. Dillon has been focusing on issues that will advance awareness and understanding of the conditions faced by Montana's vulnerable children and families, all the time emphasizing the need for evidence - based decision making and the importance of using and understanding data.
MSPCC releases «Oral Health and the Commonwealth's Most Vulnerable Children: A State of Decay,» a policy paper that highlights the poor oral health and lack of access to dental care faced by low - income and foster children in MassacChildren: A State of Decay,» a policy paper that highlights the poor oral health and lack of access to dental care faced by low - income and foster children in Massacchildren in Massachusetts.
This concession will mean that for a year at least carers, rather than face a benefits penalty for not actively seeking work, will be able to spend their time prioritising the settling in of vulnerable children who may have suffered trauma or abuse and who may have moved school as well as home.
The objectives of this mental health outreach service were to provide assessment and treatment to a vulnerable group of families who could not access mental health services, 10 to liaise with appropriate agencies, and to train hostel staff.24 The evaluation of this service was faced with constraints and limitations, particularly the mobility and engagement of the population and the resulting sample size, 11 the major environmental changes in the lives of these families during their contact with the service, hence their potentially confounding effect, and the need for an eclectic mental health intervention to meet the needs of children and their parents.
«Ireland is currently facing a very challenging situation and our children represent one of the most vulnerable groups, particularly those in disadvantaged areas.
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