Sentences with phrase «wider family»

In terms of opportunities to meet up with other family, children should be encouraged to keep in touch with important people in their lives, such as wider family members.

I can work with you both together as a couple as well as independently for clarity and resolution to their marriage or partnership issues and for wider family.

The extent of negative responses from wider family members and the reasons for mixed couples experiencing them can vary.

By intervening early we aim to improve parenting skills amongst teenage parents, reduce conflict between them and support wider family involvement in the upbringing of children.

You may have sparked a world wide family tradition here!

31 % comprised wider family and friends, these are primarily kinship carers, including grandparents and older siblings who are raising children unable to live with their parent.

Details of Families Need Fathers local branch meetings - Families Need Fathers provides information and support to parents of either sex, grandparents and wider family members following divorce and separation.

Relationships with wider family: it can take time for the extended family to accept a partner who is not from the same background.

Engage with family members regularly and participate in school - wide family engagement activities including home visits, phone calls to family members, and school - based meetings with families.

«The poll findings demonstrate clear public support for a diversity of family forms in the UK and the importance of drawing on wider family networks in times of strain.

Government's new amendment to clause 1: Foster for adoption Clause 1 exempts local authorities from prioritising placing a looked after child with a suitable wider family member over a prospective adopter, once adoption is even considered.

We are very grateful to the Big Lottery Fund's Supporting Families Programme for their generous donation of # 669,298, which will be used to support children across Northern Ireland, including in the North West, who are being cared for by wider family and friends.

«We need to be confident that reforms to our child welfare system, fully explore and support the child living safely with their parents or wider family at the outset, and that the drive for speeding up decision making is not at the expense of the right placement for the child.»

«In many areas of the country, not enough is being done early on (through a family group conference, for example) to identify and assist wider family members such as older siblings and grandparents to take on the raising of children unable to live with their parents.

Relationships Scotland Borders will use its grant of # 242,913 to encourage meaningful relationships between children and non-parents and carers, as well as wider family members.

Local authorities are required to identify and consider wider family members, including older siblings, as potential suitable carers, in order to avert a child entering the care system.

The amendments primarily focus upon: - A duty on local authorities to explore suitable wider family placements prior to a child becoming looked after, including offering families a family group conference; - Extending the provisions to support educational attainment of previously looked after children to all children in kinship care.

We used a bedroom in which our v - e-r-y wide family bed literally fit wall to wall.

In these roles, she has demonstrated her belief in providing equitable educational opportunities for all students by being a resource for culturally responsive teaching practices; creating a student leadership club; facilitating school - wide family literacy initiatives; as well as presenting at national academic conferences on her own research aimed at uplifting discourse on parenting practices of African American families.

It is estimated that 200 - 300,000 children in the United Kingdom who can not live with their parents are being brought up by grandparents, older siblings or other wider family members or friends.

• Clare Roskill (2008) Wider Family Matters (Family Rights Group) gives advice to family and friends carers, and the practitioners who work with them, about the practical and emotional issues facing these carers.

A sentiment echoed by Ms Mill who stresses the importance of adults seeking their own support network outside of their children and even wider family.

Parenting plans are unique to your situation but could include agreements about living arrangements, keeping in touch with wider family and friends, school, holidays and other special days, health issues, money matters and communication.

Engage with family members regularly and participate in school - wide family engagement activities including phone calls to family members and school - based meetings with families;

«Not enough is being done early on (eg through a family group conference) to identify and assist wider family members such as older siblings and grandparents to take on the raising of children unable to live with their parents, which is shocking.

Clause 1 exempts local authorities from prioritising placing a looked after child with a suitable wider family member over a prospective adopter, once adoption is even considered.

Other researchers and practitioners also record the substantial impact on young fathers» involvement of wider family members, particularly the mothers and fathers of both the young parents:

Private funds can help simplify complex financial arrangements, consolidating wealth whilst satisfying the needs of the wider family which may have different investment needs and preferences.

For example, philanthropy can bring the wider family together by affirming shared aspirations and values.

There's not many folks with pastoral and leadership sensibilities trying to figure out the best way to nurture faith for those folks, and ways to keep them connected to the wider family of Jesus.

Thank you for the recommendation of unchurching by Richard Jacobson — ordered it today — there's definitely a movement towards being a wider family — I was in church leadership for over 25 years did church planting (the lot)-- but the last few years I've found a new relationship with God away from all of that with a focus on looking outward.

Missions helped to preserve languages that were threatened by a rising linguafranca, extended the influence of the vernacular through careful methodical and systematic investigations in the field, and helped to establish connections within the wider family of languages.

In a statement, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said: «My heart goes out to her husband and daughters, to their wider family, to everyone at Corpus Christi Catholic College and to the parishes connected to the College.

Children are baptised into the wider family of the Church.

You made me a mother, small girl, and suddenly my own ribs are cracked and I am reacquainted with my own thumping too - tender self, discovering a wide family of sisterhood.

For the duration of the war he hid from the world with his mother and brothers in Bermuda, but most of my wider family remained in Germany.

I would love to win this — I'd make the first cake for my family, the second for my wider family, and the third for my workmates.

The film is of very high quality and can be used to awaken health and other family professionals, as well as young fathers and mothers, and their wider families, to young fathers» potential in their children's lives.

Consider how you can facilitate conversations between mums and dads, dads and dads, and wider families and communities to help create supportive networks around new parents.

The death of a baby has a profound and lasting impact on parents and the wider family.

[1] Alternatively the term possibly denotes a «first showing» of the new baby to the wider family and circle of friends.

But what about the trauma affecting the mother and wider family?

Key points to this review: This review emphasises the importance of the wider family unit for providing social support for moms who come from a South Asian cultural upbringing.

The level of social support from the wider family also influences the mom's risk of postpartum depression.

I'm deeply sorry, deeply sad at what has happened to her and my condolences to all the people of Batley and Spen who she represented so well, and, of course, to her wonderful family, her husband, her children and all of her wider family.»

Although there was lots of talk of me becoming «Labour's Iain Dale» whereas I'm not doing a more personal blog as yet, having come to the conclusion that the priority is building a group blog that is open to Labour's wider family.

«On behalf of the government and Fianna Fail, I wish to convey our deepest sympathies to his wife Maureen, his daughter Eimear, and his sons, Conor, Ciaran and Sean, as well as his wider family,» he said.

This elegant relation between the physical quantization of conductance and the abstract concept of topology opened the door to the exploration of a wide family of exotic states of matter, the so - called topological phases, whose discovery was recently honored by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

FODMAP stands for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides And Polyols; they are a wide family of carbohydrate found in plant foods which those who didn't hit the digestive genetic lottery find hard to stomach.