The initiative consists of five key outcomes that are designed to improve the lives of children: being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being. These outcomes are based on the belief that children should be able to participate fully in society and be able to make a positive contribution to their communities.
One of the key ways in which Every Child Matters aims to improve the lives of children is by ensuring that they have access to high-quality education. This includes providing children with the support they need to succeed in school and ensuring that they have access to a range of extracurricular activities that can help them develop new skills and interests.
Another important aspect of Every Child Matters is the emphasis on keeping children safe. This includes providing children with a safe and supportive home environment, as well as working to prevent abuse and neglect. It also involves promoting healthy relationships and helping children to develop the skills they need to stay safe in the wider world.
In order to achieve these goals, Every Child Matters works closely with a range of partners, including schools, local authorities, and voluntary organizations. By working together, these partners can help to ensure that children receive the support and protection they need to thrive.
In conclusion, Every Child Matters is a vital initiative that aims to improve the lives of children across the UK. By focusing on key areas such as education, safety, and well-being, it is helping to ensure that every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential and make a positive contribution to society.
Matthew, CHAPTER 7
But it was not to them that I was attached. I have had two masters. The Baltimore American, of March 17, 1845, relates a similar case of atrocity, perpetrated with similar impunity--as follows:--" Shooting a Slave. We sailed out of Miles River for Baltimore on a Saturday morning. The thought that came up, came out--if not in the word, in the sound; --and as frequently in the one as in the other. He was said to own a thousand slaves, and I think this estimate quite within the truth.
I had no bed. His house was the house of prayer. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. In August 2018, a list was published which revealed that over 1,300 Catholic clergy in Ireland had been accused of sexual abuse, and that by this time, 82 of them got convicted. It was to those little Baltimore boys that I felt the strongest attachment. He immediately, the letter continues, fled to his father's residence, where he still remains unmolested.
Gore acted fully up to the maxim laid down by slaveholders,--"It is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault. In the latter case, in fact, they must take place through those forms of judicial cooperation between different jurisdictional authorities, for the performance of activities relating to a process such as the assumption of information or documents, etc. I could not approach her as I was accustomed to approach other white ladies. He was one of those who could torture the slightest look, word, or gesture, on the part of the slave, into impudence, and would treat it accordingly. Giuseppe Dalla Torre, former president of the Vatican City State Tribunal, observed that: Should the State law provide for the obligation to report on the part of those who are informed of the facts, the removal of papal secrecy and the clarification of the limits of official secrecy allow the fulfilment of the provisions of the law, thus promoting full cooperation with the civil authorities and avoiding unlawful incursions of civil authority in the canonical sphere. He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,--a common drunkard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation already wasted a large portion of his father's property. Covey was a poor man, a farm-renter.
He said to the other that it was a pity so fine a little fellow as myself should be a slave for life. I told him I was. The testimony of Mr. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. These quarrels would almost always end in a fight between the parties, and those that whipped were supposed to have gained the point at issue. He always aimed at taking us by surprise.
It enabled him to get his farm tilled with much less expense to himself than he could have had it done without such a reputation. I never left there hungry, no matter how great the need of my speedy return. During the summer months, people came from far and near--from Baltimore, Easton, and Annapolis--to see it. Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn. This was called mush.
Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger. We had no more voice in that decision than the brutes among whom we were ranked. The letter states that young Matthews had been left in charge of the farm; that he gave an order to the servant, which was disobeyed, when he proceeded to the house, obtained a gun, and, returning, shot the servant. I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. They find less difficulty from the want of beds, than from the want of time to sleep; for when their day's work in the field is done, the most of them having their washing, mending, and cooking to do, and having few or none of the ordinary facilities for doing either of these, very many of their sleeping hours are consumed in preparing for the field the coming day; and when this is done, old and young, male and female, married and single, drop down side by side, on one common bed,--the cold, damp floor,--each covering himself or herself with their miserable blankets; and here they sleep till they are summoned to the field by the driver's horn. This view asserted that with treatment, priests who had molested children could safely be placed back into ministry, although perhaps with certain restrictions such as not being in contact with children. Tell us whether, after all, the half-free colored man of Massachusetts is worse off than the pampered slave of the rice swamps! Gore once undertook to whip one of Colonel Lloyd's slaves, by the name of Demby.
The next word would be, "I don't believe you. My determination to run away was again revived. I regarded the selection of myself as being somewhat remarkable. You have the opportunity to literally bring the love of Christ to a child in need. What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights. I must have perished with cold, but that, the coldest nights, I used to steal a bag which was used for carrying corn to the mill. He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death.
Covey sent me, very early in the morning of one of our coldest days in the month of January, to the woods, to get a load of wood. He prayed morning, noon, and night. Heaven speed its eternal overthrow! In the nature of the case, it must be in the highest degree pernicious. I LEFT Master Thomas's house, and went to live with Mr. In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax. I expected every moment that my brains would be dashed out against the trees. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it.
As if whips, chains, thumb-screws, paddles, bloodhounds, overseers, drivers, patrols, were not all indispensable to keep the slaves down, and to give protection to their ruthless oppressors! The light broke in upon me by degrees. New Design was under the overseership of a Mr. In August 2005, Father Charles Henry Sylvestre of Belle River, Ontario pleaded guilty to 47 counts of sexual abuse of females, aged between nine and fourteen years old, between 1952 and 1989. We of course were now almost entire strangers to each other. For the first 100 days, 's coverage of the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, for which the newspaper won the In Ireland, television journalism similarly played a key role in helping public awareness of widespread sexual abuse of children by priests. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
