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Associated Teachers’ TV programme
The Four Ages of Every Child: The First Age… 0-5
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I'd like all the normal things -
for her to be healthy and happy -
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but I think I'd really be happy
if she's happy with herself,
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so I want for her
what she wants for herself.
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(narrator) Brighton,
on the South coast,
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was chosen to pilot the government's
Every Child Matters initiative.
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Its ambition - to help every child
fulfil their potential
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and achieve their dreams.
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David Hawker is the man
leading the new Children's Trust.
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This programme,
the first in a series of four,
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looks at how Every Child Matters
affects the 0-5 age group.
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0-5 is about the best possible start
in life for children.
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Health, education, childcare.
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Good family support,
good parenting.
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Make sure the health checks
are there,
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make sure the parents are supported
to look after a very young child.
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(narrator) It's still early days,
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but the introduction
of Every Child Matters
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is starting to make a difference to
lives of young families in Brighton.
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Victoria lives with her partner Dave
in a tiny first-floor flat.
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She came to Brighton two years ago
and didn't have roots in the city.
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Dave, a builder, works long hours
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and Victoria was potentially
alone and isolated
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when she had baby Faith
three months ago.
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She wasn't alive when she was born.
She had to be resuscitated.
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They lost her heart trace
just as she was being born
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cos she had the cord
wrapped round her neck.
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It was more frightening afterwards
when I realised what had happened.
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They gave me an episiotomy
to get her out quickly
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cos they lost her heart trace.
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It took her ten minutes
to start breathing.
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It felt like 30 seconds to me,
but I didn't know until...
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They give you a report after.
They don't tell you anything.
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They don't like to
panic you or anything.
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I didn't even know if she was a girl
or a boy. They whisked her away.
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Aran, come here.
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(narrator) Any new mother encounters
a number of childcare professions,
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but for Victoria
there is real difference
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in the way that
the various agencies support her.
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She and Faith attend the new
Tarner Sure Start Children's Centre.
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Here, all the different services
for children
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are put together under one roof.
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(Victoria) Kim, she lives
at number 14 down the road,
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her little boy, Julian,
is nearly six months.
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But we usually walk to the
Tarner Centre along the seafront
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and at the end of the road there's a
cafe, and if it's nice we sit there,
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or we go into town and
go find a nice top or something.
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We walk from Hove,
yeah, from our road.
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(man) How far is it?
Is it down that way?
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It's about another 20 minutes,
I think, from here.
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It's taken us about ten minutes,
so it's about half an hour.
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I do have family - they live just up
the road - but obviously they work.
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I've got other brothers and sisters.
They can't come out all the time.
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My partner's auntie has had another
girl who's 12 weeks older than her,
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but they live in Portslade,
so it's a bit of a way to go.
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So it's just nice to have people
to socialise with, to talk to
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or if we've got a day off and
I don't want to watch telly all day,
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it's just nice knowing that
there's someone else there.
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I can just go and knock on their
door cos they're just over the road.
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The Tarner Centre
represents the new thinking
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that underpins the whole of
the Every Child Matters' agenda.
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Multidiscipline teams focus on the
care and development of the child,
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sharing information
to speed up procedures
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and allowing for early intervention
if required.
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No, it's quite new, quite unique
to be in this multidisciplinary team
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as health visitors.
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(man) What's the advantage?
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It means that we can give
the clients much more support
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and we can make referrals to people
like family support workers
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if a client is in need.
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So it works really well.
It's a fantastic way of working.
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It's definitely better
for clients, yes,
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and we have to learn
to work in a new way.
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(man) What's the new way?
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Working together,
sharing information,
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working with clients in an open way.
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We do joint visits together, so that
we're giving them a joined-up...
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Every Child Matters is probably
the most fundamental change
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in public policy
that we've seen for a generation.
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It's really,
I think, quite remarkable
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how the whole of the policy
has shifted around
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from it being driven
by lots of policies
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to being driven by the needs
of children and young people.
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So it's turned everything
inside out.
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And it's based around
what children's needs are,
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what their aspirations are.
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The five outcomes of Every Child
Matters are absolutely superb.
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You can get everything into them -
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being healthy, staying safe,
enjoying and achieving,
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making a positive contribution,
achieving economic wellbeing.
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I say to people if you've got those
five, you don't need anything else
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because everything else fits
into one or more of those five.
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(narrator) The Tarner Centre is just
the first of the Sure Start centres
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that David Hawker
hopes to roll out across the city.
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He outlines his plans to
the board of the Children's Trust.
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An important precursor to that
was the strategy
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for children's centres
across the city,
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in terms of
where they're going to be
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and how they'll relate together -
all be networked together -
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to provide a comprehensive,
early-years service for the city.
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The Sure Start project
is the most exciting thing
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that's happened in education
for many, many years.
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It's, if you like, the missing part
of the welfare state.
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It was meant to be cradle to grave,
but the cradle was never there.
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Under-fives were regarded,
mainly by Conservative governments,
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as nothing to do with the state.
They belonged to mothers
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and the state didn't intervene
until children were five.
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There was virtually no nursery
education free and available to all.
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Within the last eight years we've
seen universal nursery education
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for three- and four-year-olds, and
the start of the Sure Start project.
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It's still only beginning,
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but the idea that you can pick up
children from the very beginning,
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rescue those in danger of failing or
of being neglected or of suffering
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at the earliest possible stage - all
of the evidence forever has shown
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that what you can do for the
under-fives pays higher dividends
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than anything you do
for children later.
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The later you leave it, the harder
remedial care and treatment is.
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When I was pregnant I got a letter
and some leaflets in the post
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and didn't think much of it.
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Then, obviously, when she was born
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my health visitor
was contacted by my midwife,
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and that was Linda Evans
who works at the Tarner Centre
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and explained to me what the Tarner
Centre was and what it was about.
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What the centre's approach does mean
is that you can tap in very quickly,
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refer very quickly, communicate very
quickly with the appropriate support
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for a particular problem or issue,
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because we're all based
very closely together.
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Or you can bring people in
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and introduce them to
the facilities the centre has.
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I know Linda specifically.
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I know I can phone the Tarner Centre
and ask for someone to speak to
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that knows who I am, if you like,
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cos she does know who I am
when I phone up.
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I know they have lots of people
they look after,
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but it's nice having a one-to-one
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rather than speaking to a helpline
or something like that cos...
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I was cutting her toenails
the other day
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and accidentally snipped the side of
her toe and didn't know what to do.
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You can't put a plaster on it,
so I just phoned up and asked.
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It's nice to know there's someone
at the end of a phone
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who can reassure me
I haven't done something wrong.
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(narrator) Donna and Paul Tilley,
with their four children,
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were one of the first families
in Brighton
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to benefit from the introduction
of the Sure Start initiative.
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Say hi, Jade.
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And this little one here,
this is Harry. Harry, say hiya.
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Wave at the man. Say hiya.
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And the one in the white shirt
is Amy-Lou. Amy-Lou is seven.
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- Say hello.
- David's over there. David's six.
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When the system came into place
I was very new to the area.
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I didn't really have any friends
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and was looking for a drop-in group,
a toddler group - things like that.
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I think we offer the best
pregnancy group on the front.
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(woman) Maybe I should
take that down.
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(narrator) The support Donna
received in those early months
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was improved
by the close relationship
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between her health visitor
and playlink worker.
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We started having
playlink sessions.
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She used to bring
art materials, toys, books,
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and we'd play with Amy-Lou
for an hour.
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(narrator) Playlink workers are
part of the new multi-agency working
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taking place at
the children's centre.
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Receiving referrals
from health visitors,
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they knock on the doors of new
arrivals, offering help and support.
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It's not about relieving parents.
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It's about having time with the
parents and the children together.
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So the idea is parents can't just
do the ironing or have tea.
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We're all sitting and
playing together and chatting.
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From one visit to the next
it can be different.
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Sometimes a mum might need
five minutes alone, and that's fine,
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but the idea is that she enjoys
the time with her children.
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It's a break in your hectic day
sometimes that you need to sit down
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and think, "Yeah, I can do that.
That's a good idea."
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"That's something we could
do together at another time."
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Sometimes it's very simple things -
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you can play with a shoebox
and put things in it!
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But sometimes it's things
you wouldn't think about
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