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Wearable biomolecular sensing nanotechnologies in chronic disease management. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Nanotechnol
Tu J   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Effective Are Ireland's Monitory Mechanisms in Improving Its Child Protection and Welfare Services?

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments and are therefore a significant focus of monitoring activities. Monitoring can help to build a better child protection system and to ensure child safety; track policy and legislative implementation and resource allocation; contribute to preventing systemic
Kenneth Burns   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse Pathways and the Role of Timing: Youth Experiences of Leaving Care in China

open access: yesChild &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
wiley   +1 more source

‘We Are the Eyes on the Streets’—Modes of Proactive Youth Outreach

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing emphasis on the need for more prevention initiatives targeting the rise of mental health issues, addiction and crime in the youth population across Europe. Youth outreach work has a long‐standing tradition of working with marginalized youth; however, youth culture is dynamic, and there has been limited research in the ...
Ingunn Skjesol   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of Leaving Care Policy: Continuing Care in Scotland

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Scotland, local authorities have the duty to provide ‘continuing care’ to young people who are cared for in foster, kinship or residential settings (known as ‘out‐of‐home care’ in many regions) on their 16th birthday. This provision allows young people up to the age of 21 to remain in the same setting, with the same carers, and receive ...
Robert Porter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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