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Is trick-or-treating legal or not?
Society, Politics & Law

Is trick-or-treating legal or not?

...Children dressed up for a Halloween party - trick or treating at a door] With regard to age limits for those who go trick-or-treating, there is no legal restriction in the UK from anyone of any age participating in these activities. However, parents need to ensure that their children are safe, and they must consider whether their child is of sufficient age not to be...
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How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...children each, and that their children (and grandchildren, and so on) have offspring after 25 years. How many generations are alive upon arrival and what are their populations? The first generation of 500 couples produce 4 × 500 = 2000 children. After 25 years, these children will produce 4 × 1000 = 4000 grandchildren. Fifty years into the voyage, the first generation...
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Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities

...children can be subtly blamed or openly stigmatised for not providing their children with a healthy diet, sufficient choice of foods, or for not ‘encouraging’ them enough to try a more varied diet. However, the reality is much more complicated than that. One ‘side effect’ of food that has been mass-manufactured for efficiency – this includes many types of...
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...children. A competitive high pressure home environment. Pressing kids to do well in school. Putting children through private tutoring and coaching classes with the aim of getting them into grammar schools and prestigious universities. Anxiety about educational achievement hangs over the parent–child relationship among South Asian families to the detriment of the...
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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...centre, which has recently been awarded Grade II Listed status by Historic England. [aerial view of Campbell Park, Milton Keynes] A bird’s eye view of Campbell Park, Central Milton Keynes Green space ecosystems provide many services, from the ecological (nutrient and water cycles), to the economic (resources such as wood and grazing) and from the aesthetic to health...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...children’s verses “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” First published in 1885, the collection continues to be in circulation today. Wikipedia informs us that the collection “contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ‘Foreign Children,’ ‘The Lamplighter,’ ‘The Land of Counterpane,’ ‘Bed in Summer,’ ‘My Shadow’ and ‘The Swing.’”...
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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...children with disabilities. From a community empowerment perspective it is crucial to note that while most discussions of engagement with the third-sector relate to larger third-sector organisations which have a national or even international profile, the reality is that most are quite small. The UK Civil Society Almanac 2019 (NCVO, 2019) indicates that of the almost...
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Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...centre] Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre for foreign nationals prior to their deportation from the United Kingdom Desperate and destitute The snowfall which recently covered parts of the UK served up a stark reminder that access to adequate housing is a basic human right, which can save lives. Now, more than ever, it is clear that access to...
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