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Safer recruitment? protecting children, improving practice in residential child care [PDF]

, 2007
In the wake of a number of high-profile cases of the abuse of children and young people in residential child care, there have been repeated calls for the improvement of recruitment and selection of residential child care staff.
Davidson, Jennifer, Kay, Helen, Kendrick, Andrew, Stevens, Irene   +3 more
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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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Editorial Vol1 no1

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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Securing safer care staff: a model for the assessment, selection and training of staff to work in residential care

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, Janice Gould, Gerry Sullivan, Jayne Cockerill   +3 more
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Editorial Vol11 no1

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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Guest Editorial Vol3 no1

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2004
As the new director of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC), and being new to the Scottish social policy context, I have had the opportunity over these last six months to view the situation of residential child care from a different ...
Jennifer Davidson
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Book review: Residential child and youth care in a developing world Volumes 1-4 By Tuhinul Islam and Leon Fulcher [Editors]

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2023
Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World (2016 – 2020) is a unique insight into global residential child and youth care practice, which emphasises that the usually negative Western literature perspective that many of us read about is not ...
Jennifer Brooker
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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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Social Pedagogy: Developing and Maintaining Multi-Disciplinary Relationships in Residential Child Care [PDF]

, 2017
The task of building and maintaining effective multi-disciplinary relationships is a constant challenge for the residential child care sector in Scotland.
Bayes, K, Berridge, D, Biehal, N, Henry, L, Berridge, D, Biehal, N, Lutman, E, Henry, L, Palomares, M, Berridge, D, Brodie, I, Berridge, D, McNeish D, Newman T, Roberts H, Bird, V, Eichsteller, G, Clark, C, Smith, M, Connelly, G, Chakrabarti, M, Daniel, B, Wassell, S, Gilligan, R, Eichsteller, G, Holthoff, S, Eichsteller, G, Holthoff, S, Eichsteller, G, Holthoff, S, Kemp, R, Eichsteller, G, Petrie, P, Fostering Network, Frizzell, E, Fulcher, L, Garfat, T, Heron, G, Chakrabarti, M, Holthoff, S, Eichsteller, G, Horwath, J, Hämäläinen, J, Kirkwood, A, Maier, H, Marshall, K, Jamieson, C, Finlayson, A, McPheat, G, Milligan, I, Hunter, L, Milligan, I, Milligan, I, Milligan, I, Stevens, I, Munro, E, O’Brien, S, Parton, N, Petrie, P, Boddy, J, Cameron, C, Wigfall, V, Simon, A, Scott, J, Hill, M, Scottish Executive, Scottish Executive, Scottish Executive, Smith, M, Smith, M, Smith, M, Whyte, B, Standards Council for Community Learning and Development for Scotland, Tsui, M, Cheung, F, Vrouwenfelder, E, Milligan, I, Merrell, M   +40 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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