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Leaving care in Scotland: the residential experience
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Each year over a thousand young people aged sixteen and over leave care in Scotland. What does leaving care mean for these young people and what happens to them in the early stages of post-care living? What has helped them to prepare for leaving care and
Jo Dixon, Mike Stein
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.An optimized Cas9‐enriched nanopore sequencing workflow, combined with STRiker, enables simultaneous analysis of disease‐associated STR loci from patient blood. The nCATS–STRiker workflow detects repeat expansions, de novo repeat motifs, interruption patterns, and methylation in a single assay, improving the genetic diagnosis of previously undiagnosed ...
Seungbok Lee +11 more
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The role of a residential placement in preparing children for placement with a foster family
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Placement in residential care is one element of the Lisdeel Family Placement Initiative. Children referred to the Initiative stay in a residential placement in Lisdeel House for a number of months, while a range of interventions is combined to prepare ...
Cliona Murphy
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2017 The low educational achievement of looked after children — children in the care of a local authority — is well documented in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Andy Hancock, Juliet Hancock
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Palaeoproteomic Deconvolution of Physical and Genetic Collagen Mixtures
Advanced Science, EarlyView.ClassiCOL_v2 uses a novel “peptide patching” framework that treats any collagen sample as a patchwork of peptide sequences derived from phylogenetically related species. This allows the algorithm to simultaneously resolve two previously intractable problems: multi‐species samples and/or database deficiencies.
Ian Engels +12 more
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Promoting the spiritual well-being of children and young people with special needs
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Last year Camphill-Rudolf Steiner-Schools in Aberdeen hosted a conference entitled Promoting the Spiritual Well-being of Children and Young People with Special Needs: an Inclusive Vision.
Robin Jackson, Angelika Monteux
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Silicon Nitride Resistive Memories
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Amorphous SiNx is an attractive resistance switching material for ReRAM applications due to its physicochemical properties, such as humidity resistance, low oxygen diffusivity, and is used as a metal diffusion blocker. By modifying the ratio between N and Si atoms, the microstructure of the SiNx is affected, rendering it possible to change the ...
Alexandros‐Eleftherios Mavropoulis +7 more
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Educational Futures, 2011 The poor outcomes for looked after children (LAC) are well-documented: for example, a young person from a care background is 10 times more likely to be given a statement of special education need (SEN) than their peers (DCSF, 2009).
Catherine Lamond
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Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018 How can looked after children with special educational needs be supported outside the school day? Research suggests a significantly high proportion of looked after children have special educational needs.
Paul Lee Alan
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Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children
STEPP: Socialinė Teorija, Empirija, Politika ir Praktika, 2017 This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening
Valentina Calcaterra +1 more
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