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Using wage council data to identify the effect of recessions on the impact of the minimum wage [PDF]
, 2011 Up until now the National Minimum Wage (NMW) introduced in April 1999 appears to have been a policy success. So far there has been little evidence of a negative effect on employment.
Dickens, Richard, Dolton, Peter
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of children are adopted or placed in alternative care settings (i.e., residential, foster, or kinship care). The current study explores the factors leading to separation from parents and adoption or placement in alternative care by investigating orphanhood status, perceived antecedents to placement, types of alternative care
Nicole Gilbertson Wilke +2 more
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The changing pattern of earnings: employees, migrants and low-paid families [PDF]
Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight explore changes in earnings inequality in Britain since the late 1970s.
Abigail McKnight, Richard Dickens
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Animal, the 21st Century Postmodernist Oliver Twist : a Glimpse of Khaufpur: Dead bodies, poor bodies and "bodies-in-pain" [PDF]
, 2018 A comparison between the main characters of Indra Sinha's novel Animal's People and Charles Dickens' Oliver TwistUna comparación entre el protagonista de la novela Animal's People de Indra Sinha y el de la novela de Charles Dickens, Oliver ...
Muñoz Varela, Albert
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2023, England's statutory children's services recorded the highest number of agency social workers since records began. The cost of these workers, and the impact of an unsettled workforce on the children in receipt of their services, has led to a new set of national rules for agency social workers in children's social care.
Ciarán Murphy
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012 In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens brilliantly exploits the medical climax in the recovery of the ‘incurable’ Estelle L’Hardy (1836–37), a paralyzed Swiss girl who self-hypnotized a celestial choir to assuage menacing pain.
Carole Koepke Brown
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Communication is critical to effective social work. Successful communication supports relationship‐based practices and higher quality assessments of children's needs and safety. The aim of this systematic review is to examine the existing evidence about the views and experiences of children and social workers about communication in social work
Charlotte Friel +2 more
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Charles Dickens in Leo Tolstoy's work and life
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019 All his life L.N. Tolstoy greatly appreciated Ch. Dickens for the humanism of his works. His attitude to Ch. Dickens never changed, though we know that his reading preferences were far from being static – he evaluated and re-evaluated so many writers ...
G.V. Alekseeva
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child welfare services in Norway and Sweden proclaim the importance of considering continuity in the child's upbringing and ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background when placed in foster care. Drawing on seven vignette‐based focus group discussions with social workers in Norway (12 participants) and Sweden (14 participants), this ...
Elin Hultman +2 more
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Diverse Pathways and the Role of Timing: Youth Experiences of Leaving Care in China
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In China, young people in state‐funded childcare institutions (Fuliyuan) are required to exit at age 18 unless still in education, compressing the move to adulthood. This study applies a life‐course lens to examine how the timing and sequencing of key life events shape care leavers' trajectories.
Shian Yin, Siobhan Laird, Lisa Warwick
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