welfare agency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwelfareandagency
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welfare
noun[U]
uk/ˈwel.feər/us/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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agency
noun
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/us/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/
a business that represents one group of people when dealing with ...
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(Definition ofwelfareandagencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Likewise, there should be an expectation that students continue their preclinical work with the same (or a different) socialwelfareagencyor other community activity.
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As a rule, only small countries are able to make do with a unitarywelfareagency.
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If a pet must be rehomed, the housing provider must advise an appropriate animalwelfareagencythat can help.
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The juvenile court is to-day very much more of awelfareagencythan a criminal court.
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It is also desirable that seafarers and welfare agencies world-wide strengthen their associations through various forms of bilateral or multilateral negotiations.
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Similarly, programs for child delinquents undertaken by welfare agencies often are directed at children whose disruptive behavior is already persistent.
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These characteristics pose special challenges to agencies, such as the juvenile court, mental health clinics, schools, and child welfare agencies, dealing with these problematic children.
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In gaining access to respondents, interviewers used their own contacts as well as referrals from other respondents and community welfare agencies.
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Palmer thought that she would work in an animal rescue service, and eventually open her own animalwelfareagency.
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This is a demonstration of the reworking of the welfare-citizen-state relation around the rationalities of neo-liberal governance across a range of welfare agencies and policy areas.
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Paradoxically, this has meant that the families seen by child welfare agencies as having the fewest resources are generally required to adopt children who have the greatest needs.
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She has a set of tools at her disposal : home-help, transport services, meals-on-wheels, safety alarm, housing adaptation, personal support, contact with other welfare agencies, service houses.
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Social policy comprises a number of spheres in which duties to address specified inequalities for classes of individuals fall on certain agents (welfare agencies, employers, schools).
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They also hold back from disconnection while the welfare agencies pursue their inquiries.
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Surely that raises difficulties for the animal welfare agencies.
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Then, unfortunately, another pregnancy comes along, and these welfare agencies have no way in which to help her: they rely upon the doctors.
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The review sparked off many submissions from housing and welfare agencies.
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The system was not so complex that the welfare agencies were unable to find out the errors and point them out to the department.
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Children will be able to obtain help and advice through the usual sources—welfare agencies and so on.
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