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Placing Children in Residential Care: A Scoping Review of Decision‐Making and Matching Criteria

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Placement decisions in residential care (RC) represent one of the most challenging aspects of child protection services. While often framed as a last‐resort solution, RC aims to serve children whose needs are not met through family‐based interventions and is used differently across countries.
Chiara Monti
wiley   +1 more source

Poor Children in Our School? Child Poverty‐Related Beliefs and Practices Among Primary School‐Based Professionals in Finland

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite being viewed as highly equal welfare societies, child poverty remains an unsolved problem in the Nordic countries. This article investigates the various types of institutionalised, underlying beliefs about child poverty held by professionals working within the Finnish primary school system, and how these assumptions shape school ...
Christa Järvinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance by focusing on Russia in the period 1999-2002. This setting offers us three ideal conditions for such a study: plenty of corporate governance violations, no alternative mechanisms to address ...
Alexander Dyck   +2 more
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Why do firms opt for Alternative-Format Financial Statements ? Some Evidence from France [PDF]

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Historically, the format of financial statements has varied from one country to another. Recently, due to the attractiveness of their capital markets, the strength of their accounting professions and the influence of their institutional investors, Anglo ...
DING, Yuan   +2 more
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Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Each year untold numbers of land managers and volunteers work individually and collectively to manage invasive plant, animal, and insect species. Whether such efforts are deemed successful depends on ecological and economic outcomes, with limited consideration of the social processes, costs, and benefits.
Sonia Graham   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating social media into modern dermatology – a cross‐sectional study

open access: yesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and objective Social media is increasingly establishing itself as an important source of information for skin health. Although demand among users is high, very few dermatologists outside the Anglo‐American region use these platforms to provide patient information, and the majority of content is provided by non‐medical sources.
Maximilian Lammer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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