Example sentences of "children [unc] needs " in BNC.

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1 It seems ironic that I pose such a threat to the natural order : an innocuous , above-averagely exhausted woman , mainly preoccupied with children 's needs , work , letters from the bank and Sainsbury 's , but sometimes longing for a chat , a good laugh , an exchange of views .
2 Substitute care was seen as supporting parents as well as providing for children 's needs , and practical assistance as preserving the family unit .
3 From their perspective , family problems were often underestimated by the agencies and their sense of parental responsibility , exercised in trying to ‘ get something done ’ , was violated by social workers who misinterpreted it as lack of commitment to their children 's needs ( Fisher et al . ,
4 The government defended this charge by arguing that some LEAs manipulated the curriculum for ideological purposes rather than solely seeking to accommodate electors ' wishes and meet children 's needs .
5 In the rush to install childcare facilities , there are those who fear that such provisions will be badly planned and hastily constructed , with little thought for the children 's needs .
6 Children 's needs are always the last to be considered by architects and planners , ’ says Gordon .
7 Such approaches probably owe a great deal to consideration of research by the National Children 's Bureau under Dr Mia Pringle and a consideration of children 's needs as well as their rights .
8 Reverend Wulwick dedicated himself to the children 's needs :
9 It is this last uncertainty which influenced both Conrad ( 1979 ) and Meadow ( 1980 ) in suggesting that an MCE form of signing is most likely to satisfy deaf children 's needs .
10 If on close inspection , educators can begin to understand the great importance of these supposed ‘ gestures ’ in portraying the syntax and semantics of sign language communication , then a more effective view of the children 's needs in language will emerge .
11 If teacher training is about preparing young men and women to work sensitively to children 's needs , and to provide a work force of newly trained teachers who are able to fit into schools effectively , the way in which initial teacher education is developing deserves careful reappraisal .
12 On becoming a head I was determined to try to give parents the opportunity to talk freely and frankly about their children and their children 's needs .
13 Irrespective of differing views and attitudes towards any one or more of these issues , we would nevertheless acknowledge a number of overriding principles that are rooted within a humanitarian philosophy which concerns protection of children 's rights ; granting of equal opportunities ; and acknowledging the univer-sality of children 's needs in relation to the individuality of their needs .
14 This framework identifies five elements for consideration when reviewing a whole-school response to meeting children 's needs , and will be used in this paper to raise key issues .
15 A primary goal in establishing some common ground must be to agree each teacher 's role and responsibility for meeting children 's needs .
16 To nominate a teacher ‘ head of special needs ’ can confine the responsibility for meeting children 's needs to a mere handful of staff .
17 If education is to be responsive and supportive to all children 's needs then schools must provide two things :
18 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 .
19 For children 's needs to be considered with parents and their wishes acknowledged and recognised .
20 Despite unsuitable premises , lack of funding and a dearth of promised support from the council , many groups tried hard to accommodate children 's needs .
21 Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs .
22 In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed .
23 Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself .
24 He sees childhood as a fairly modern invention designed to fit adult rather than children 's needs , and an oppressive invention at that .
25 In 1911 it required that one-third of all boarding-out committees should consist of women , for their assumed superior sensitivity to children 's needs , and that relieving officers should no longer supervise boarded-out children , thus removing such children from direct stigmatizing contact with the official administration of the Poor Law .
26 ( 4 ) greater awareness of readability levels and general appropriateness of books to children 's needs , interests and independent use ;
27 This would provide a much needed flexibility , showing that National Curriculum requirements can be met in a range of ways according to children 's needs and teachers ' preferred ways of working .
28 The main reasons for not wanting immediate employment were to do with their children and their perceptions of their children 's needs .
29 ‘ And show whether or not there are areas where the parents do n't normally meet children 's needs , ’ says Ward .
30 It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ .
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