Call for revamp in Scottish nursery provision
Only half of children born in 2011 and last year will be guaranteed two years of nursery provision, according to research. The current legal entitlement to Scottish Government-funded places can
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Flintshire services praised in ‘encouraging’ inspection report
Children’s services in Flintshire have been recognised as being among the best in Wales in various areas of a county. A report from the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales
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Belfast Trust apologises to families of five children who died in its care
Health trust’s chief executive told inquiry into the deaths it sincerely regrets the pain and suffering experienced by the families A health trust has apologised to the families of five
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How to spot child sexual exploitation
Each year in England thousands of children and young people are raped or sexually abused. This includes children who have been abducted and trafficked, or beaten, threatened or bribed into
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CRFR Briefing 65: Hearing children in court disputes between parents
The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 gives children the right to have their views taken into account when their parents take a dispute over the child to court. This is consistent
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Latest stats on child poverty “a sorry state of affairs”
As Alan Milburn and Baroness Shephard, chairman and deputy chairman of a new Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission call on Government to do more to meet the global 2020 target on child poverty, Nushra Mansuri has described the latest statistics on the number of children defined as being impoverished “a sorry state of affairs for one of the richest economies in the world”.
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Impact of public spending cuts on vulnerable children/families
A report examined the impact of public spending decisions on vulnerable children and families. It said that 2 out of 3 of the most vulnerable families were struggling with more
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Children’s understanding of family financial resources and impact on healthy eating
An article examined children’s understanding of family finances and how they perceived this to relate to eating healthily. Children had sophisticated ideas about the interrelationships between diet, cost, and health;
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Letting Children be Children – Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood
The pressure on children to grow up takes two different but related forms: the pressure to take part in a sexualised life before they are ready to do so; and
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Child Development, 79, 5
* Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment * Development of Three-Dimensional Object Completion in Infancy * Young
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