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Half of low-income families do not use social subsidies for their children
1 month ago

Half of low-income families do not use social subsidies for their children

NL Times  

Nearly half of low-income families do not use social fund support for their children. They may, therefore, be eligible for support for additional expenses for their children, for things like sports and cultural activities. Funds that parents can call on include the Leergeld Foundation, the Youth Sports & Culture Fund, and the Jarige Job Foundation. According to the researchers, it …

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Many schools are still closed weeks after Hurricane Helene. Teachers worry about long-term impact
2 months, 1 week ago

Many schools are still closed weeks after Hurricane Helene. Teachers worry about long-term impact

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I feel like a month is a lot, but …

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Heartbreaking moment mother recalls how her autistic son, 16, choked her during a violent outburst - leaving her unable to be alone with him
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Heartbreaking moment mother recalls how her autistic son, 16, choked her during a violent outburst - leaving her unable to be alone with him

Daily Mail  

A woman has laid bare the heartbreaking reality of caring for her autistic child with little support from health services. The documentary shows moments in which Séamus is forced to hold back a clearly distressed Eoin, using his strength to keep him from hurting himself and others, and attempt to calm him down Laura told the documentary that the family …

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Thousands of armed forces families depend on help into private schools. Labour's VAT raid plan threatens to hit their children hard, writes LORD KEMPSELL
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Thousands of armed forces families depend on help into private schools. Labour's VAT raid plan threatens to hit their children hard, writes LORD KEMPSELL

Daily Mail  

From Cyprus to Somalia, South Sudan to the Falklands, British military personnel are deployed 24/7 around the world to safeguard our national interests. They fight bloodthirsty terrorists and intercept international organised criminals Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson leaves 10 Downing Street More than 4,000 military children receive support for their private education …

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Four "youth village" abuse victims make formal police complaints
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Four "youth village" abuse victims make formal police complaints

Dutch News  

Four adults who were taken into care and placed with families in a special village in the 1980s and 1990s say they were physically and sexually abused during their time there, the Telegraaf reported on Wedesday. The four have all made formal police complaints about their mistreatment, said to be at the hands of one man who worked in the …

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Families and former staff speak out after multiple alleged incidents at Guardian childcare centres in Canberra
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Families and former staff speak out after multiple alleged incidents at Guardian childcare centres in Canberra

ABC  

Dissatisfied families and staff are walking away from one of the country's biggest childcare providers after revelations of serious and repeated safety incidents. In a statement, Guardian chief executive Warren Bright said the organisation had a "zero tolerance for child harm policy" and that "sometimes our teams do not deliver to our expectations". Mr Bright said retention of team members …

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The war in Gaza is wiping out entire Palestinian families, one branch at a time. This is how
6 months, 1 week ago

The war in Gaza is wiping out entire Palestinian families, one branch at a time. This is how

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza has killed hundreds of family members from the same bloodline, an unprecedented toll on the small community mostly made up of refugees and their descendants. The Oct. 19 strike killed 20 members of the intermarried Tarzai and Souri families, from the dwindling Christian community in Gaza, including at least seven children. …

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Can you afford to take care of your children and parents? Biden revives effort to lower costs
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Can you afford to take care of your children and parents? Biden revives effort to lower costs

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden runs for reelection, he’s resurrecting proposals to reshape American life from the cradle to the grave by lowering the cost of child care, expanding preschool opportunities and making home aides more available to the elderly. “So when the legislation wasn’t passed, we got to work on an executive order that really was forward-leaning across …

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Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?

News 18  

India tweaked its Juvenile Justice Act to speed up the child adoption process when a large number of minors were abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, of the 4,009 children adopted in the last one year, 449 were in-country adoptions, according to the data collated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority, under the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The …

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'The families deserve more': Uvalde city report clears local officers of wrongdoing
9 months, 1 week ago

'The families deserve more': Uvalde city report clears local officers of wrongdoing

Raw Story  

"The families deserve more”: Uvalde city report clears local officers of wrongdoing" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. UVALDE — A city-commissioned independent review of Uvalde police’s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting cleared local officers …

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Migrant families begin leaving NYC hotels as first eviction notices kick in
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Migrant families begin leaving NYC hotels as first eviction notices kick in

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Migrant families were moved out of a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to ease the pressure on New York City’s strained shelter system by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays. “This is not going to be a city where we’re going to place children and families on the street …

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Halfway there! Your generosity buys beds for 262 children
1 year ago

Halfway there! Your generosity buys beds for 262 children

The Independent  

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There is nowhere safe for children to go in Gaza
1 year ago

There is nowhere safe for children to go in Gaza

Al Jazeera  

By ordering families to move, Israel is not ensuring that they survive, but merely giving them the option to die another way, elsewhere. These stories of untold suffering are sadly the norm in Gaza, where 1.8 million people – almost 80 percent of the population – are now homeless and seeking refuge wherever they can. Rather than ensuring the safety …

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Australian Aboriginal child separation at ‘devastating rates’: Commissioner
1 year, 2 months ago

Australian Aboriginal child separation at ‘devastating rates’: Commissioner

Al Jazeera  

UN Indigenous experts are visiting Australia while a new report warns of the risk of a new stolen generation. An Aboriginal Commissioner has warned that Australia risks another Stolen Generation if the current “devastating rates” of Aboriginal children being removed from their families continue. April Lawrie, the South Australian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, found Aboriginal children were …

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UK’s cost of living crisis has children sleeping on floor due to ‘bed poverty’, says charity
1 year, 2 months ago

UK’s cost of living crisis has children sleeping on floor due to ‘bed poverty’, says charity

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The cost-of-living crisis has led to “bed poverty” where children …

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Bans on diverse board books? Young kids need to see their families represented, experts say
1 year, 4 months ago

Bans on diverse board books? Young kids need to see their families represented, experts say

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy When Wes Brown sought out …

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National implications for audiology services flagged in review into 'heartbreaking' SA cochlear implant bungle
1 year, 4 months ago

National implications for audiology services flagged in review into 'heartbreaking' SA cochlear implant bungle

ABC  

The families of more than 200 children caught up in Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital cochlear implant bungle will be offered compensation after a review found long-standing systemic problems with the program dating back over nearly two decades. Key points: A review into the Women's and Children's Hospital cochlear implant program has identified systemic problems spanning back 17 years Up …

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Supreme Court rejects challenges to law that governs tribal adoptions
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court rejects challenges to law that governs tribal adoptions

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Supreme Court on Thursday left intact a decades-old law that prioritizes the placement of Native American children with Native families or tribes in child custody proceedings, rejecting challenges brought by several adoptive parents. “But that is not because this Court has no justice to offer them.” “Our Constitution reserves for the Tribes a place – an …

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The homeless single mothers forced to move 300 miles from their families
1 year, 7 months ago

The homeless single mothers forced to move 300 miles from their families

The Independent  

Almost 10,000 homeless single mothers and their children have been forced to move into “horrendous” temporary housing far away from their families because of a chronic shortage of affordable homes, new figures show. This has caused an increase in homelessness and has resulted in people “blocking” temporary accommodation places because they are unable to move on, the charity said. Polly …

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WATCH: Ukrainian children reunite with families after 'long and difficult' journey from Russian 'summer camps'
1 year, 8 months ago

WATCH: Ukrainian children reunite with families after 'long and difficult' journey from Russian 'summer camps'

Firstpost  

Testimonies from the rescued children highlight the hardships faced by them as they were held in Russia against their will. Russian officials took the children to what they called ‘summer camps’ from occupied parts of Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Kherson regions After the International Criminal Court slapped Russian President Vladimir Putin with an arrest warrant for committing war crimes in Ukraine …

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Biden must not bring back ‘baby jails’
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden must not bring back ‘baby jails’

Al Jazeera  

Family detention centres abuse human rights. Now that President Joe Biden appears to be considering the re-launch of a practice previously shuttered for gross human rights indignities, it’s worth interrogating what happens when the so-called “leader of the free world” turns its back on its principles, like liberty and the sanctity of family. So Congress paid a private prison management …

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Indonesia court hearing into children killed by toxic cough syrup
1 year, 11 months ago

Indonesia court hearing into children killed by toxic cough syrup

Al Jazeera  

Some 200 children have died of acute kidney injury in Indonesia since last year and dozens of cases linked to cough syrup have been reported in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. Families of Indonesian children who died after consuming a tainted cough syrup have demanded restitution at an Indonesian court, which has started hearing their class-action lawsuit against government agencies and …

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You’re not getting child tax credit checks anymore. Here’s why
1 year, 11 months ago

You’re not getting child tax credit checks anymore. Here’s why

LA Times  

Christina Darling plays with her sons Kayden, 10, left, and Brennan, 4, at home in Nashua, N.H., in 2021. Darling and her family had qualified for the expanded child tax credit, part of President Biden’s $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package. “It didn’t have enough time to just root in the way you need it to,” said DeLauro, who advocated for an …

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Homeless children in temporary accommodation without own beds or space to play
2 years ago

Homeless children in temporary accommodation without own beds or space to play

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tens of thousands of homeless children in temporary accommodation do …

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