Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun pl] for children " in BNC.

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1 The London arts board is primarily responsible for funding arts for children and young people in London .
2 Request for better provision for play facilities for children and seating .
3 Request for better provision for play facilities for children and seating .
4 It finances hundreds of projects and events , such as heritage classes for children in Spain , Italy and France , and European Heritage Day .
5 The proposed post-divorce reform of a jointly agreed statement of parenting arrangements for children is welcome in principle , but many parents will require access to conciliation to enable them to concentrate on their children 's needs .
6 In this country family allowances were paid in some areas in Tudor times , and at the end of the eighteenth century William Pitt made serious proposals for a national scheme of cash allowances for children .
7 In addition , the existence of tax allowances for children was seen by others , including Beatrice Webb ( 1919 , p. 307 ) and Seebohm Rowntree ( 1918 , p. 141 ) , as an important precedent to be used in the argument for extending the state 's recognition of parental responsibilities by the introduction of cash family allowances .
8 It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment .
9 Smelser argues that male trade-union agitation against married women 's employment after the 1830s was due to the enforced decline of employment opportunities for children and hence the need for an adult presence in a newly constituted home life .
10 Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children .
11 The report favours the setting of attainment targets for children at 7 , 11 and 16 ( though with some publicly expressed reservations by Sir John Kingman himself about whether English can be ‘ mastered rung by rung ’ as in climbing a ladder ( Nash , 1988 ) ) , and spells out in some detail what these should be .
12 Strong , well-constructed playground equipment is available from various firms who have given particular attention to safety factors for children with special needs .
13 ON THE morning of May 11th , John Patten , the education secretary , was said to be ‘ incandescent ’ at reports that John Major had bounced him into a climbdown on his plan for school tests for children aged seven and 14 .
14 The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books .
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