The phrase "accepting child" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing adoption, fostering, or a child who is being accepted into a family or community.
Example: "The couple is currently in the process of accepting a child into their home through adoption."
Alternatives: "adopted child" or "foster child".
Rumours abound the government has decided to stop accepting child refugees altogether.
The government argues that accepting child refugees from Europe could encourage parents to send their children unaccompanied with traffickers on perilous journeys across the Mediterranean.
Alf Dubs, the Labour peer who forced the government this year into a U-turn on accepting child refugees, successfully getting his amendment included in the Immigration Act, said he was alarmed by the new regulations.
The matching variables used for the three groups were: level of regulation; geographic location within the state; urban or rural; currently accepting/not accepting child care assistance funding vouchers for low income families; and total child capacity (based on square footage area in the building).
Additionally, it is not known whether any of the "unregistered" children were under private dental care, though this is unlikely in Scotland as NHS treatment for children is free and at the time of this study the majority of dental practices were accepting child patients under the NHS.
One of them, Tania Mathias, said accepting children at risk of harm in Europe was the "right thing to do".
In 1926 the Menningers opened the Southard School for mentally retarded children, and in a matter of years they were accepting children with all types of mental disorders.
America West, though, stopped accepting children under 15 for connecting flights after it sent two to the wrong cities in 2001.
Mossbourne, the high-profile academy in Hackney, east London, already admits pupils in bands according to ability as well as accepting children by geographical location.
2000-plus clinical trials are accepting children and young adults; v.
Perhaps this serves as a greater allegory for accepting children of all stripes.
