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The impacts of short break provision on disabled children and families: an international literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
For over 30 years, short breaks have been part of the landscape of support provision for families with a disabled child. Historically, the term ‘respite care’ has been used in much of the research literature concerning short breaks for families with a ...
Collins, Michelle   +6 more
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Residential child care practitioners in autism-specific units: the perceptions of potential staff and newly recruited current practitioners

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
This paper presents findings about the beliefs and experiences of potential and current residential child care practitioners who work with children affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Irene Stevens
doaj   +1 more source

Aqueous Zinc‐Based Batteries: Active Materials, Device Design, and Future Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review conducts a comprehensive analysis of aqueous zinc‐based batteries (AZBs) based on their intrinsic mechanisms, including redox reactions, ion intercalation reactions, alloying reactions, electrochemical double‐layer reactions, and mixed mechanisms, systematically discussing recent advancements in each type of AZBs.
Yan Ran, Fang Dong, Shuhui Sun, Yong Lei
wiley   +1 more source

Going Home: The Reintegration of Child Domestic Workers in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report documents a study of the reintegration of child domestic workers in Nepal. There are an estimated 1.8 million child labourers in Nepal, 361,814 of whom are child domestic workers. Whilst child domestic work (for children under 16 years) falls

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Improving outcomes for care leavers: evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
Care leavers' poor outcomes across a range of areas have been well documented since the 1980s. Their vulnerability to homelessness, poor educational achievement, mental ill health and offending (Biehal, Claydon, Stein and Wade,1992; Stein and Wade, 2000;
Wendy Harrington
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Complete CO2 Electroconversion: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction and CO2 batteries face challenges in achieving complete CO2 conversion with high conversion rates and Faradaic efficiency simultaneously. Existing systems compromise one for the other with incomplete CO2 conversion and inefficiencies, hindering practical applications. This perspective highlights state‐of‐the‐art progress,
Changfan Xu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Close enough? professional closeness and safe caring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In countries around the world, residential child care has been rocked by scandals of abuse of children and young people by the people who were supposed to be caring for them.
Kendrick, Andrew, Smith, Mark
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Participation in residential child care in Germany

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2007
This paper sets out to examine how participation is perceived and enacted in German residential child care. Residential child care varies considerably in Germany.
Bernhard Babic, Liane Pluto
doaj   +1 more source

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