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    They often must balance their roles as financial providers and child caregivers. Employers often ask personal questions to female applicants. They aim to obtain background information. This may include her marital status, whether she has any children and their ages, or if she is a single mother. Then they interpret these pieces of information in several, prejudiced lights. For example, if she is married, they assume that her husband is the primary breadwinner and her role will be subordinate

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    E4 Children Act 1989 The Children Act focuses on the welfare of the child and stated that “the welfare of the child is the paramount consideration.” (Children Act 1989 www.devon.co.uk) In my setting the child is at the heart of everything to do with him/her. For example the setting plans outdoor activities in which they may play or do classroom related activities. The setting has to take in consideration the child’s safety through the environment, the activity planned, how the children will get

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    welfare of children and young people 1.1 Safeguarding legislations:  Health and safety policy  Healthy and safety at work act (1974)  Every child matters framework (covered on page 20)  Working together to safeguard children (2006 and 2010)  Safeguarding policy  Children act (1989 and 2004)  Child protection policy  E-safety Children Act: The Children’s Act came in to force in 1989 and was drafted complement the Human Rights Act but be specific to children. The act puts into law

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    This new, deadly homosexual disease would come to be known as AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. In the decade or so that followed, as it became clear that this was not merely gay disease, but a disease that affected, women, hemophiliacs and children, the government reacted with indifference. This led those affected to fight for recognition and for treatment options. When the AIDS epidemic started in the early

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    can change their culture. First, this paper examines Crouch’s stance on Christian’s influence on the world and how it compares to Schmidt’s view. The second section shows how Daniel impacted the world in Daniel Chapter 1 and how Paul did the same in Acts 17:16-33. This paper concludes with practical principles that can be derived from the lives of Daniel and Paul. Can Christians change the world? Crouch

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    reinforce them with books, likewise, when parents are not modeling these values children can pick them up by reading books that communicate them. These values are important for children to have in society and the development of future relationships. A Chair for My Mother and The Butterfly implicitly and explicitly suggest the values of altruism, empathy, and kindness. While there is not one true form of altruism, the act of risking their own live to save a strangers, is altruism in its closest form

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    learning activities The Early Years Learning Centre, located in the Greater Dandenong community, provides play-based, vibrant and supportive education for children and gives them senses of belonging and identity. The focused class has 22 children in total aged from 4 to 5 years old, with one lead educator and one teaching assistant. The children are from various cultural backgrounds and have a variety of interests and personalities. With a philosophy inspired by the multiple intelligences, the major

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    Children and Young people Traditionally the legal the legal age of adulthood was 21 but in the past 20-30 years most jurisdictions have lowered this age to 18. Article 1 of the Convention on the rights of the child (CROC) states that anyone under the age of 18 is child. Also the Children and young person’s (care and protection) Act 1998 (NSW) defines a ‘young person as someone aged between 16-18. These definitions are important because laws treat children and young people differently to adults.

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    committed by children who are not living stable lives. In the 1800s, they believed that the death sentence was one of the only ways to teach people that crime is not permissible, and even if children committed a very low-level crime, they could be put to death. Since then, the justice system has gone through phases of accepting the death sentence for children, to banning the death sentence for children under 18, and then banning the death sentence and life without parole for children completely. Many

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    According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the oldest humanitarian organization, humanitarianism can be defined as the independent, impartial and neutral delivery of relief to victims that are at risk of death, either because of natural disasters or armed conflicts. Across the decades, this concept has been changing; it was never the same. At the beginning it was only focused on certain type of people, such as soldiers. Nowadays, humanitarianism embrace all people without discrimination

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