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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy, Gianni De Fraja, Mike Adkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time‐trend analysis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Investment in schools has wide‐ranging implications for society, from improving learning outcomes to economic growth and social cohesion. Addressing inequalities in school funding is important, as part of an effort to guarantee equal opportunities.
Lateef Akanni, Davara Bennett, Yu Wei Chua, Alexandros Alexiou, Oluwaseun B. Esan, Hanna Creese, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, G. J. Melendez‐Torres, Dougal Hargreaves, Benjamin Barr, David Taylor‐Robinson   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guidance from the Department for Education stipulates that permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort and where there is potential for harm to come to anyone in the school setting. Suspensions are positioned as a tool to communicate to a pupil that their behaviour is in breach of the school's behaviour policy.
Megan Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin, Kersty Hobson, Wouter Poortinga, Mark Stead, Julia Newth, Jonathan Reeves, Merideth Gattis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime Trends Analysis

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
Abstract—Crime has become a growing concern in urban and rural regions alike, posing significant challenges to law enforcement agencies and policymakers. The analysis and forecasting of crime rates through data-driven methods is the main topic of this paper. This study intends to uncover crime patterns, hotspot regions, and temporal trends by utilizing
Kavyashree D G, Amruth M M
openaire   +1 more source

Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance [PDF]

The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out ...
Entorf, Horst, Spengler, Hannes
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Urban 'disorders', 'problem places' and criminal justice in Scotland [PDF]

, 2010
[About the book] The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in 'Britain' or the 'UK'.
Helms, Gesa, Law, Alex, Mooney, Gerry
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and the Quality of Life in Wisconsin Counties [PDF]

The impact of crime on the local quality of life of a region is examined. Using the methods suggested by Roback (1982) hedonic pricing analysis is used to examine the effects of eight categories of crime on property values and wages.
Deller, Steven C., Ottem, Thomas
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source