Example sentences of "[art] children act " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main legislation relating to the care of children is the consolidating Child Care Act of 1980 , the Children Acts of 1948 and 1975 and the Children and Young persons Acts of 1933 , 1963 and 1969 . |
| 2 | The Children Act by Katja Faber . |
| 3 | The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 . |
| 4 | Under the Children Act 1975 an adopted child has the same right to succeed on the intestacy of his adoptive parent as any other child born to that parent . |
| 5 | For many foster parents the strain imposed by the rights of natural parents and extra paperwork required under the Children Act which came into force last year could cause them to give up , she went on . |
| 6 | The Children Act : Looking Forward , Looking Back JEAN PACKMAN and BILL JORDAN |
| 7 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 8 | For example , voluntary organizations played , and will continue to play , a central role in the provision of children 's services ; they were also influential in shaping new child care legislation ( for example : The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children Act , 1908 ; Association of British Adoption Agencies and the 1975 Children Act ) . |
| 9 | This Government introduced the Children Act , a landmark in legislation to protect children . |
| 10 | We will ensure that the standards implemented through the Children Act are applied sensibly , and do not discourage private or voluntary arrangements which are often best suited to the needs of children and parents . |
| 11 | Protecting children will be high on the agenda , as will the full implementation of the Children Act and the UN Convention to promote childrens rights . |
| 12 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 13 | The law on school attendance acts as a rather crude instrument in this regard , although the child-centred philosophy of the Children Act 1989 extends into the area of school attendance and perhaps offers a more appropriate method of enforcing parental responsibility . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the Children Act 1989 purports to offer LEAs a new legal solution to non-attendance at school — the Education Supervision Order . |
| 15 | Before the changes contained in the Children Act 1989 came into effect the LEA , when contemplating prosecution , had to consider the appropriateness or otherwise of instituting care proceedings under section 1 ( 2 ) ( e ) of the Children and Young Persons Act ( CYPA ) in the juvenile court ( on the ground that a child was ‘ not receiving full-time education suitable to his age , ability and aptitude ’ ) , instead of or as well as prosecuting ( see Education Act 1944 section 40(2) ) . |
| 16 | Prior to the Children Act 1989 there might be a care order ( 400 were made in 1987 ) , transferring parental responsibilities to the local authority indefinitely , or a supervision order for a specified period ( of up to three years ) , with a social worker attached to supervise the child 's resumption of full-time schooling . |
| 17 | The Children Act 1989 will replace care orders in truancy cases with ‘ education supervision orders ’ , likely to be seen as a more constructive and less punitive form of order ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 19 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 20 | ( The Children Act 1989 has abolished a rarely used power in section 40(1) of the Education Act 1944 to imprison the parent for up to one month . ) |
| 21 | Provision for this is now made in the Children Act 1989 . |
| 22 | Unless extra resources and training are made available , the ESO procedure laid down in the Children Act 1989 may not herald a new emphasis on the causes of truancy . |
| 23 | It was , after all , the first comprehensive Welfare Act directly intended for adolescents ( 14–17 ) , although previous legislation had specified hours and conditions of labour for children and young persons , and young adolescents were included in several of the clauses in the Children Act 1908 . |
| 24 | New laws resulting from the Children Act , the NHS Community Care Act and changes in the Charities Act carry a wide range of implications for voluntary groups . |
| 25 | The law relating to children has recently been brought together in the Children Act . |
| 26 | The Children Act 1989 bringing disabled children into the same system as children in care , will provide an opportunity for a much needed impetus to research and to development in policies and practice concerning disabled children . |
| 27 | Whether the full extent of their concern , i.e. that local authorities should have a legal obligation to assist these young people , will become part of the Children Act 1989 is , at the time of writing , not known . |
| 28 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 29 | At the same time step-parent adoptions have been discouraged and have almost halved since the Children Act 1975 . |
| 30 | The Children Act 1975 sought to discourage such step-parent adoptions and a research project was established to monitor the changes . |