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Imagine someone with two children who wants to give each of them a birthday gift of £50. One of them can find only £30-worth to spend their money on, but the other spends £50 on CDs or whatever they choose.
The recently published millennium cohort study confirmed that, by the time they reach their third birthday, children from deprived backgrounds can be as much as a year behind their peers in cognitive and social development.
The 2000 guidance said that a woman could receive treatment until her 38th birthday. The current guidance says that it should be her 40th birthday, although there are some exceptions to that, for example when frozen embryos are being used.
To echo Ian Crichton’s comments, I welcome the opportunity to share our five years of experience. We are about to celebrate our fifth birthday, so we are not quite as long in the tooth as NHS National Services Scotland, but we have experience of developing and delivering collaborative contracts and of working with co...
Further statistics show that three quarters of children who are in residential care by their 16th birthday will have a criminal conviction by the age of 22.