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Beyond the new horizon : trends and issues in residential child care [PDF]
, 2004 High profile scandals of abuse and poor outcomes of children in residential child care have contributed to a government focus on improving the quality of services.
Kendrick, Andrew
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Laser Metal Deposited Ti4822 Hollow Pipe: Experimental and Computational Modelling Study
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Laser metal deposition (LMD) of a crack‐free built Ti4822 alloys is challenging. This article reports outstanding characteristics of a hollow pipe that is built with LMD technology when a predicted, nontransformation substrate temperature of 800 °C is used.
Sadiq A. Raji +5 more
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'Nae too bad': job satisfaction and staff morale in Scottish residential child care [PDF]
, 2005 In 2003, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Education Trust published a report - Better Than You Think -on staff morale, qualifications and retention in residential child care in England (Mainey, 2003a; Mainey, 2003b).
Avan, Ghizala +3 more
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Book review: Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice. Ian Milligan and Irene Stevens
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2007 In 1994, Barbara Kahan wrote in her book Growing up in groups about 'the need for greater collaboration and common acceptance of good practice' (p xi).
Charles Sharpe
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.PBTTT‐OR‐R, a C14‐alkoxy/alkyl‐PBTTT polymer derivative, is of substantial interest for optoelectronics due to its specific fullerene intercalation behavior and enhanced charge‐transfer absorption. Comparing this polymer with (S) and without (O) homocoupling defects reveals that PBTTT‐OR‐R(O) forms stable co‐crystals with PC61BM, while PBTTT‐OR‐R(S ...
Zhen Liu +14 more
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Current trends in the use of residential child care in Scotland [PDF]
, 2006 The survey was planned to examine how local authority residential care units were currently being used and to provide data relating to current issues in the use of residential child care. These issues were identified by Scottish Institute for Residential
Hunter, L., Kendrick, A., Milligan, I.M.
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Impact of Scottish vocational qualifications on residential child care : have they fulfilled the promise? [PDF]
, 2002 This article will present findings from a doctoral study exploring the impact of 'SVQ Care: Promoting Independence (level III)' within children's homes. The study focuses on the extent to which SVQs enhance practice and their function within a 'learning ...
APPLE M. W. +31 more
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Tailoring the Properties of Functional Materials With N‐Oxides
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The properties of materials bearing N‐oxide groups are often dominated by the polar N+─O− bond. It provides hydrophilicity, selective ion‐binding, electric conductivity, or antifouling properties. Many of the underlying mechanisms have only recently been discovered, and the interest in N‐oxide materials is rapidly growing.
Timo Friedrich +5 more
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022 For children and young people living in residential and secure care, there are links between the relationships they have with Child and Youth Care Workers and positive outcomes.
Amanda Ferguson
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Holding safely : guidance for residential child care practitioners and managers about physically restraining children and young people [PDF]
, 2005 Residential child care is intensive and at times very diffificult work. Staff in residential childcare, therefore, need training, advice, supervision and support in undertaking this demanding work, since they are often doing the hardest of social care ...
Davidson, Jennifer +4 more
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