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A prospective observational study evaluating the short-term effectiveness of residential care for adolescents as "service as usual": A study protocol. [PDF]
PLoS ONEPrevious research indicates worse outcomes for children and young people in out-of-home care compared to their peers. To improve the quality of current residential care, research is needed to deepen our understanding of the key factors and mechanisms ...
Pia K Eriksson +3 more
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A commitment to care: residential child care work in England
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003 Residential child care is a valuable and complex job. It requires a wide range of skills, and can make a huge difference to the lives of some of our most vulnerable young people. So why are there high levels of vacancies and staff turnover in residential
Amanda Mainey
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Residential child care in England
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2016 This article provides a summary of the current context for residential child care in England. It records continually increasing outcomes as evidenced in a new set of Quality Standards by a new inspection framework.
Jonathan Stanley
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Care Ethics in Residential Child Care: A Different Voice
Ethics and Social Welfare, 2011 Despite the centrality of the term within the title, the meaning of ‘care’ in residential child care remains largely unexplored. Shifting discourses of residential child care have taken it from the private into the public domain. Using a care ethics perspective, we argue that public care needs to move beyond its current instrumental focus to articulate
Steckley, Laura, Smith, Mark
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SAGE Open, 2021 Although the research on social-economic and demographic inequities of parents and their approach to formal child care (early childhood education and care [ECEC] system) is increasing, the territorial effects on child care remain underresearched.
Jurga Bucaite-Vilke
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Discourses in Residential Child Care and Possibilities for Evidence-Based Practice
Professions and Professionalism, 2016 This article explores professional discourses in the Norwegian residential child care system. It discusses how the discourses serve as constraints on and possibilities for evidence-based practice when different definitions of evidence-based practice are ...
Monika Reime
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2002 On behalf of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) and the Advisory Board, I am delighted to be welcoming you to the first issue of the Scottish journal of Residential Child Care. We very much hope that you enjoy this new contribution
Andrew Kendrick
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Review: Residential Child Care [PDF]
Scottish Affairs, 2013 Young people in residential care are often the most vulnerable amongst the already very vulnerable group of 'looked after children.' There has been a significant policy focus on the needs of looked after children in recent years including reforms to the Hearings system, changes to child protection guidance, strategies for foster and kinship care and ...
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006 The recruitment of staff into residential child care presents an ongoing challenge for organisations. Methods of recruitment in the past have been criticised in a range of government reports. Skinner (1992) and others have highlighted the need for better
John Watson +3 more
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011 As this issue of the Journal goes to press, the work of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) has been incorporated within a new Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS).
Irene Stevens
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