Children's council has care at heart; EDUCATION: County social workers will be expected to keep their pledges.Byline: By Lucy LucyNickname for a remarkably complete (40% intact) hominin skeleton found by Donald Johanson at Hadar, Eth., in 1974 and dated to 3.2 million years ago. The specimen is usually classified as Australopithecus afarensis and suggests—by having long arms, short legs, an Lynch EDUCATION REPORTER LIKE many children in care, teenager Teenager See also Adolescence. Ah, Wilderness! high-school senior has problems with girls and his father. [Am. Drama: O’Neill Ah, Wilderness! in Sobel, 15] Aldrich, Henry teenaged film character of the 1940s. [Am. Michael Michael, archangel Michael (mī`kəl) [Heb.,=who is like God?], archangel prominent in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. In the Bible and early Jewish literature, Michael is one of the angels of God's presence. McKeever had to change schools far too often as he was moved from one foster placement to another. Now the 17-year-old is determined to take a stand on behalf of all children in care in Warwickshire Warwickshire (wŏ`rĭkshĭr), county (1991 pop. 477,000), 975 sq mi (2,525 sq km), central England. The county seat is Warwick. The terrain is gently rolling, with outcroppings of the Cotswold Hills in the south. . He is telling the county council to give them more choice about which school they go to. Michael, now a careleaver, is one of a number of children and teenagers due to join a Children in Care Council. All the youngsters have either been in care or are still in care. The council will be created by Warwickshire County Council in September September: see month. . Michael is Michael I, Byzantine emperor Michael I (Michael Rangabe), d. c.845, Byzantine emperor (811–13), son-in-law of Nicephorus I. He supported orthodoxy against iconoclasm and recalled Theodore of Studium from exile. one of a group who has been drawing up a series of pledges by the county council to the children they place in foster care and children's homes children's home n → centro de acogida para niños children's home n → foyer m d'accueil (pour enfants) children's home n . When the children's council is created he and fellow members will hold Warwickshire County Council's social workers to account if they don't keep to the pledges. One of the promises which Michael feels most strongly about is to ensure children in care can choose which school they go to. At a meeting of Warwickshire County Council's cabinet, he said: "When children move foster placements they often don't have any choice about where they go to school. "Every time I moved foster placement I went to a different school. It was really hard when I came to do my GCSEs." Other pledges are to give children a suitcase for their possessions, provide money for special occasions such as school-leaving balls, listen to children's views and tell them their rights. But the pledge also says social workers will continue to do what they think is right for a child even when that child doesn't agree and wants something different. Warwickshire County Council has 450 children in care placements and 250 care leavers. |
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