Sentence examples for harm and abuse from inspiring English sources

In that process, the children who really do need the scarce help – those at risk of harm and abuse – no longer stand out.

It has signed on to international human rights treaties that bar it from deporting people to places where they are at serious risk of harm and abuse.

Claude Knights, chief executive of the charity Kidscape, which aims to protect children from harm and abuse, said it was difficult to monitor homeless registered sex offenders who were not notifying police of their whereabouts.

The Children's Services Development Group (CSDG), a coalition of leading independent providers of residential care, special education and fostering services, said it welcomed a government review into residential children's homes but argued that "sometimes the best decision for a young person is to take them away from a geographical area where they have experienced harm and abuse.

Indeed, in emergency situations, whether caused by human or natural forces, education serves many purposes as a tool for protection and prevention of harm and abuse (Sinclair 2001).

It's not the same as ordinary gambling, they say, but it's similar enough that it warrants controls like those exerted on, say, online poker, to prevent harm and abuse.

Figures obtained by Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP, show that the overall number of "serious incidents" – involving unexpected or avoidable deaths, serious harm, injury and abuse – has climbed 34% to 8,139 a year.

Inside the centres there have been violent deaths, horrific acts of self-harm and abuse, and mass protests.

With each vignette, we are provided with a smattering of medical insights: the physiological effects of crucifixion (a practice brought to Francis's mind by the nail through a builder's palm); details of the boxer's fracture suffered by a prison warder; and the links between self-harm and abuse suffered in childhood.

With each vignette, we are provided with a smattering of medical insights: the physiological effects of crucifixion (a practice brought to Francis's mind by the nail through the builder's palm); details of the boxer's fracture suffered by the prison warder; and the links between self-harm and abuse suffered in childhood.

For many self-harm patients, who often have a negative self-image and body experience, possibly caused by previous trauma and abuse, self-harm operates as a survival mechanism [ 7, 8].