Example sentences of "about children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers defined their main purpose when investigating referrals of alleged sexual abuse as the evaluation of child care risk ; judgement about children 's well-being was justifiable and necessary even if the reasons which motivated referral were unproven or no longer relevant . |
| 2 | Parents ' evenings are opportunities to share good news about children 's progress . |
| 3 | And this is one of the first points to note about children 's gun play . |
| 4 | I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play . |
| 5 | Roger Samways , Adviser for English and Drama in Dorset , was very progressive in outlook , holding views about children 's learning which were anathema to most right-wing Conservatives . |
| 6 | But this whole account depends on the argument about children 's single-sex peer groups , an argument which just pushes the problem back a stage . |
| 7 | This came into force in October 1991 and introduces to the law important new principles about children 's rights and choices , parental responsibility , and the role of the education and welfare system . |
| 8 | Not all of these demands are quantifiable and measurable or will rest easily within a neat job description : some will stem from anxieties about children 's academic progress , some will centre upon their social and emotional welfare . |
| 9 | Have you got anything about children 's toys , cos they were in terrible short supply |
| 10 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 11 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 12 | Adults have fairly low expectations about children 's ability to explain things . |
| 13 | In this chapter , we will look at what is known about children 's use and understanding of explanations . |
| 14 | The analysis needs to be related to what is known about children 's learning and the curriculum experienced by the pupils . |
| 15 | We 'll end up today by talking a bit about children 's role play . |
| 16 | Mike Rosen , poet and broadcaster , was the champion of a strategy for reading dependent on enthusing readers by offering them books which they could enjoy , books which had been chosen by them or for them by people who knew about children 's books . |
| 17 | Sadly , the current infighting about children 's reading will do little to encourage publishers or booksellers to engage seriously in children 's literature . |
| 18 | Other workers have echoed Clark 's concerns about the sliding scales which ask social workers to make subjective judgements about children 's skills or problems . |
| 19 | It conceded that future teachers needed to know about children 's language development along with their general development . |
| 20 | PNP policy was embedded in the broader framework of Authority-thinking about children 's needs , the curriculum , teaching strategies , classroom practice , school management and home-school relationships . |
| 21 | However , much is revealed about children 's thinking in incidents as well as in the general strategies used . |
| 22 | Finally , teachers ' explicit use of ‘ attainment ’ targets , their strategies of assessment and remediation and evidence about how they think about children 's learning will be explored in depth . |
| 23 | The second point of concern is about children 's services . |
| 24 | The final thing I want to say to you about children 's services is , we have to , we have , having great trouble breaking into prevention . |
| 25 | I was talking about children 's services , yes |
| 26 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 27 | It 's a pity that the general public do n't come into this chamber on , on a normal debate , about education , about children 's needs , about social services , the very things that I 've |
| 28 | The Dundee deaconess , who helped us with advice about children 's books an her own delightful design for a Chalet School sampler , said that she hoped our efforts together would bring ‘ help , food and life to many . ’ |