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

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1 During this period , a significant expansion in the existing supply of institutions for children occurred in Flanders , the Netherlands , and the United Kingdom ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) .
2 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
3 Yet it is clear that existing law does not provide enough protection for children against sexual abuse within the home and the Committee fails to make alternative proposals that will sufficiently strengthen it .
4 More than 100 delegates at the Association of Children 's Reporters annual study conference at Peebles also heard Prof Chris Turner of Stirling University 's Department of Applied Social Science call for a fresh look at emergency protection for children , not necessarily because the system had worked unsatisfactorily in Scotland .
5 The Rustins have written ( 1987 , p.2 ) that all the modern writers of fiction for children they examined ‘ are concerned , in one way or another , with issues of emotional development in children ’ .
6 THE 1970 Education Act opened a new world of opportunity for children with mental and physical handicaps .
7 They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) .
8 In the majority of cases work was prescribed to the extent that there was insufficient opportunity for children to incorporate ideas of their own .
9 Of course there was still some opportunity for children to earn money while they were at school , and where those opportunities were taken there is evidence that parents considered this as part of the household income and expected it to be handed over ( Jamieson , 1986 ) .
10 In sum , compared with homes , schools provide a significantly reduced opportunity for children to learn through talk with an adult , and in those conversations that do occur , children find themselves forced into the respondent role , their contributions for the most part only being valued if they contribute to the teacher 's predetermined line of thought .
11 Given the creditable support that the Minister has previously given to integrated education in Northern Ireland , will he ensure that provision is made within the citizens charter to develop integrated education and to facilitate the opportunity for children in Northern Ireland to enter such education ?
12 I have for long been concerned to provide an opportunity for children to revise their choice of school between the ages of 11 and 13 .
13 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
14 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
15 A paradise for children , a riot of misrule , the queer looking shops reversed every fixed idea in the venerable history of commerce .
16 Same old story for children
17 Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas .
18 The churches work together to produce a one-hour programme each week featuring church news , a Bible story for children and personal interviews .
19 Of the two aspects of chivalric honour , love and patriotism , the former would be misplaced in an adventure story for children .
20 One local authority in England , Warwickshire , has closed all its residential provision for children in care .
21 Caring for Children presents information for the UK on provision for children , childcare policies , employment provisions , the demographic situation of the 1990s , and recommendations for national action .
22 Organisations may pay for just the employee and spouse to view accommodation or may make provision for children to go too .
23 I am not arguing here for a return to streaming or special provision for children with exceptional gifts .
24 It is now firmly established that effective provision for children with special educational needs is achieved by paying attention to the curricular , pastoral and self-enhancing aspects of the school .
25 As a result of two consultation days held to examine possibilities for greater integration in residential provision for children and young people with special needs , a series of recommendations were made to and accepted by the Social Services Committee in January 1987 .
26 Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets .
27 In 1906 an adverse report by the Board of Education 's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five — hitherto the normal age for the entry of working-class children to full-time education had been three .
28 Equalising educational provision for children of different socio-economic backgrounds does not do away with the educational disabilities of working class children vis-à-vis middle class children .
29 Local authorities have the power to make special educational provision for the under 2s and will have a duty to make such provision for children aged 2–5 and 16–19 as well as for those of compulsory school age .
30 Towards the end of this period there was notable research and teaching activity in the area of talk in the classroom , language provision for children with special needs , children 's writing and the role of metaphor and imagination in Language and Learning .
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