Many councils or education authorities advise parents to hand their forms in to their child's primary school offices, who pass on the forms.

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The charity is urging schools to treat female genital mutilation as they would other forms of child abuse.

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Nashua home school coordinator Anna Signorello, who was helping a client translate her child's school evaluation forms into Spanish, says Latinos frequently feel ignored by politicians.

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South Yorkshire Police said it was working with partners to make "continued improvements to how we recognise and deal with child sexual exploitation in all its forms".

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They want to export America's rules that protect workers against exploitation in various forms, including rules forbidding child labour.

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Some forms of chemotherapy also affect a child's progress through puberty, which in turn might result in short stature, Kadan-Lottick said.

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Worse, even for fairly straightforward matters such as licensing a business, selling a house or registering the birth of a child, a number of different agencies requiring a plethora of different forms may be involved.

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While Giotto developed a sense of volume in his painting, Duccio stuck to the two-dimensional painting of Cimabue and surpassed it, leavening the Byzantine forms with brilliant hues and a tenderness between Madonna and Child (pictured) that could touch his viewers.

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