Eyewitnesses tend to have a tremendous impact when it comes to identifying and convicting a perpetrator. However‚ what happens when the only eyewitness is a child? Children are thought to be particularly unreliable‚ especially in the criminal justice system‚ and regardless of this‚ jurors still tend to place a lot of confidence in them (Lowenstein‚ Blank‚ & Sauer‚ 2010). Children’s abilities to be reliable eyewitnesses has been a subject of interest over the past few years‚ and whether or not they
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Children Act 1989 This Act identifi es the responsibilities of parents and professionals who must work to ensure the safety of the child. This Act includes two important sections which focus specifi cally on child protection. Education Act 2002 This sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities (LEAs)‚ governing bodies‚ head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. Children Act 2004 This provides the legal framework for Every
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supporting the speech‚ language and communication development of the children in own setting 2.1 Explain the ways in which adults can effectively support and extend the speech‚ language and communication development of children during the early years 2.2 Explain the relevant positive effects of adult support for the children and their carers 2.3. Explain how levels of speech and language development vary between children entering early years provision and need to be taken into account during
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political rights. Rights tend to be of two general types: those advocating for children as autonomous persons under the law and those placing a claim on society for protection from harms perpetrated on children because of their dependency. These have been labeled as the right of empowerment and as the right to protection.[13] One Canadian organization categorizes children’s rights into three categories: Provision: Children have the right to an adequate standard of living‚ health care‚ education and
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Children Censorship In their article An Exploratory Study of Children’s Views of Censorship‚ Isajlovic and McKechnie present the idea that instead of adults making decisions about censorship‚ children should have their voice heard on the matter. A study was performed with a focus group of six children ranging in age from nine to twelve‚ differing in home life and backgrounds. The group was then asked how they felt about censorship‚ whether they thought that certain books in the library should be
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being spread about vaccines‚ many guardians of children opt out to having the children vaccinated for fear of the child developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The reason for guardians not vaccinating their children due to the result of a false study done by Andrew Wakefield that manipulated and/or misrepresented the twelve patients who were involved with the study in 1998 (Hagan). This is the reason why guardians have been avoiding getting their children vaccinated‚ causing a comeback on a few diseases
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Social-Emotional Standards targeted- To recognize children’s efforts‚ providing children opportunities to make choices‚ and letting children do things on their own independently. Domain: Physical Standards targeted- To create and maintain a safe and healthy environment for all students and children participate in physical activities. Domain: Cognitive Standards targeted- “Supports and provides strategies to children that enable them to communicate their understanding in a variety of modalities (speaking
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Working mothers risk damaging their child’s prospects by STEVE DOUGHTY‚ Daily Mail Mothers who return to work after their baby is born risk causing serious damage to the child’s prospects in later life‚ researchers revealed yesterday. Such children are more likely to do worse at school‚ become unemployed and to suffer mental stress than youngsters whose mothers stay at home to bring them up. The findings from the Institute for Social and Economic Research are a severe blow to the Government‚
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family members in educating the children – especially grandparents? Although grandparents and grandchildren are not the same generation and grew up in different world‚ they do have a strong connection. That is why ‘a survey found that more than half of adults in the UK said they had learnt respect and manners from their grandparents’ (Netmums‚ 2009). This explains that not only parents‚ but especially grandparents‚ play an important role in socializing children. As grandparents or even great
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Nowadays‚ society had raised their concern towards children’s health status. Children nowadays are more likely to be obese‚ unhealthy and face problems on concentrating during class. Society belief that the major reason that affected children’s health status is them taking too much of junk food‚ sales of junk food in school canteens made children easily access to junk food as they can get them in school canteens. Sales of junk food in school canteens should be banned as these foods contain low nutrition
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