Example sentences of "[prep] [art] children [unc] hearing " in BNC.

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1 The latest possible date for the Children 's Hearing was Tuesday 5 March , and that was the date chosen by Mr Sloan .
2 The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous .
3 Both had supported the parents during the Children 's Hearing , and during the Appeal against the Place of Safety warrants .
4 After a Children 's Hearing
5 ‘ I know , ’ he stressed ‘ that within the rules of the Children 's Hearing , that the best interests of the children have been weighed , and on the balance of probabilities , the appropriate action was the right action .
6 The disposal of almost all matters concerning children in Scotland is in the remit of the Children 's Hearing system .
7 There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice .
8 In Orkney a number of events concerning the operation of the Children 's Hearing system caused great concern .
9 It has been put to me that when the Act comes into force on 1st May 1975 it will make a nonsense out of the children 's hearing system .
10 The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests .
11 It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system .
12 In short , it was thought by many that the nature of the children 's hearing system would make it unnecessary to enact rules for ‘ wiping the slate clean ’ .
13 THE effectiveness of the children 's hearing system in Scotland will be put to the test in a three-year research project , commissioned by the Scottish Office at a cost of £200,000 .
14 It is the members of a Children 's Hearing who will decide whether your child can return to live with you .
15 But it was generally thought that the disposal of a children 's hearing would not be treated as a conviction .
16 This incident seems to epitomise what is believed to have gone wrong with the Children 's Hearing system in Orkney .
17 Reading section 4 of the Act with the other relevant interpretative sections , it is hardly surprising that a number of people connected with the children 's hearing system saw the Act as a major handicap to their work .
18 The sad aspect of the Act is that people connected with the children 's hearing system — people certainly not lacking in intelligence or application — have been unable to unravel the mysteries of the statute .
19 Lord Fraser expressed the government 's confidence in the system , and confirmed that the important task of considering compulsory measures of care would remain firmly with the children 's hearing .
20 Members of the Advisory Committee are drawn deliberately not only from those who have experience of the system , for example , former panel members , but also from people who have not previously been involved in the Children 's Hearing system at all .
21 Where a child appears before a children 's hearing and the hearing decide not to impose a supervision requirement , the rehabilitation period is six months .
22 It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ .
23 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
24 In both these cases , should the child appear before a children 's hearing again , then , reading section 4 as it stands , no questions can be asked and no answers received on the earlier offence or the previous hearing or any review hearings or the disposal .
25 If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining .
26 ‘ … ( e ) in any proceedings before a children 's hearing under the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 or on appeal from any such hearing ; … ’
27 TWO youths who had spiked a social worker 's toast with rat poison were yesterday referred to the Children 's Hearing for sentence .
28 He or she would decide whether cases should go on to a Children 's Hearing before the Children 's Panel , or whether to take no further action .
29 Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies .
30 The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 states that ‘ where a child has been notified that his case has been referred to a children 's hearing , he shall be under an obligation to attend that hearing in accordance with the notification , .
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