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    What has been a significant experience in your life and what have you taken from it?Surrounded by thousands of stars‚ complete silence‚ and spectacular mountains‚ I stood atop a village in Thailand fifteen miles south of the Burmese border awestruck by nature’s beauty and power. Immediately‚ I realized that there was more to life than knowledge and understanding. The world isn’t to be taken granted‚ and I don’t plan to sit on the sidelines as the world passes me by. Ministry to Burmese refugees

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    subsidiary legislation

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    Subsidiary Legislation Subsidiary legislation‚ also referred to as delegated legislation is the law that is brought into being by authorities‚ persons or bodies other than Parliament‚ under power conferred by either the Constitution or Parliament. The purpose and limits of such subsidiary or subordinate law making powers will normally be set out in the enabling Act of Parliament or the Constitution. There are several reasons why it is necessary to have subsidiary legislation: 1. Pressure on Parliamentary

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    safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people. Outcome 1 – Understand the main legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. The safe guarding of children has only been developed in the last 50 years. However it is a vital part of working with children. The legislations‚ guidelines and policies for safeguarding are updated all the time for the best interest of the children. The current legislations are as follows; * The Children Act 1989 –

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    Models of Disability

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    Models of Disability Disability is a human reality that has been perceived differently by diverse cultures and historical periods.  For most of the 20th century‚ disability was defined according to a medical model. In the medical model‚ disability is assumed to be a way to characterize a particular set of largely static‚ functional limitations. This led to stereotyping and defining people by condition or limitations.  World Health Organization (WHO) – New definition of Disability In 2001‚ the

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    R1a – How does the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities compare with that of the general population who do not have learning disabilities? There is more chance of a person with learning disabilities being less health that someone who does not have a learning disability. There are several reasons for this but it starts as a child and continues into adulthood for people with learning disabilities. Children with learning disabilities have between 2.5 and 4.5 more chance of poorer

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    Delegated Legislation

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    Outline the different forms of delegated legislation. (10 marks) Delegated legislation (secondary legislation) is law that is authorised but not made by Parliament. Parliament lays out a basic framework‚ known as the enabling Act and other people or bodies are delegated powers to make the more detailed rules. Ministers and government departments can be given the power in the enabling Act to make statutory instruments (SI) relating to the jurisdiction of their ministry. These take the form of

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    witnessed an intensive change of attitudes towards disability (Kuodyte et al.‚ 2012). In the past‚ the medical model of disability was generally accepted. However‚ it has been successfully challenged by new disability studies that explore disability in social and cultural terms as a social construct (Titchkosky‚ 2000). The social model emerged as public reaction and criticism of the medical model. Specifically in the UK people with disabilities felt that medical model was too much focused on functional

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    Delegated Legislation

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    Delegated legislation in its various forms is a necessary source of law in a progressive society. Parliament simply cannot keep up with the need for law reform demanded by society. The government formed within Parliament has to fulfill the promised reforms (among other agenda) and there is definite pressure to see that these reforms are passed within the particular session. The lack of specialized knowledge among MPs’ make DL a necessary avenue to ensure reasonable and effective content of the law

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    What people may have come to America before Columbus? In researching for people who may have arrived in the Americas prior to Columbus I found these three groups of people. They were the Tania‚ Guineas‚ and the Islamic Muslims all have archeological evidence to substantiate the fact that they possibly could have arrived in the Americas prior to Columbus. In reference to the Tanio‚ I found that archeologists have unearthed two separate sites with artifacts of their existence. One such site

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    Hate Crime Legislation

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    Hate Crime Legislation Although many people are unaware of what hate crimes are or fail to the see the seriousness of this issue‚ the government and influential figures in the United States should raise awareness about hate crimes and improve resources for the investigation and prosecution of hate crime. Hate crimes are very important because they protect certain groups of people from being harassed. Most people do not understand what a hate crime is. A hate crime is an act or attempted criminal

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