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Week ending 03 February 2012
| | | Bridging research and practice: challenges and successes in implementing evidence-based preventive intervention strategies for child maltreatment. |
| | Looks at the reasons that interventions that have been proven to be effective have not been more widely adopted. Identifies challenges involved in adopting evidence-based interventions, giving the example of a preventive programme aimed at young mothers. Emphasises the importance of multi agency collaboration in successfully applying new models. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 633-636 |
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| | Authors: | Toth, Sheree L., and Manly, Jody Todd |
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| | | Cues of paternal uncertainty and father to child physical abuse as reported by mothers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| | Questions whether men who are unsure if they are the father of their child are more likely to physically abuse them. Looks at cases in Brazil where mothers did not live with their partners at conception and where third parties had commented on father-child resemblance. Finds that partners who had not co-resided with mothers at conception were four times more likely to be perpetrators of child physical abuse, but that abuse prevalence was unrelated to father-child resemblance. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 567-573 |
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| | Authors: | Alexandre, Gisele Caldas, and Nadanovsky, Paulo, and Wilson, Margo, and Daly, Martin, and Moraes, Claudia Leite, and Reichenheim, Michael |
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| | | Parental cognitive impairment and child maltreatment in Canada. |
| | Looks at the relationship between parental cognitive impairment and child abuse investigations in Canada. Analyses data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. Finds that the two factors are connected, but partially mediated by perceived parent non-cooperation, mental health issues and low social support. Suggests that services need to develop more effective ways of supporting parents with intellectual disabilities and their children. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 621-632 |
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| | Authors: | McConnell, David, et al. |
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| | | Sexual, physical, verbal/emotional abuse and unexplained chest pain. |
| | Examines the relationship between a childhood history of sexual, physical and emotional abuse and experiences of non cardiac chest pain (NCCP). Finds that emotional/verbal abuse is a significant independent predictor of unexplained chest pain, but the association may be moderated by depression. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 601-605 |
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| | Authors: | Eslick, Guy D., and Koloski, Natasha A., and Talley, Nicholas J. |
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| | | The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and mature minors: a missed opportunity? |
| | Questions the exclusion of young people aged under 16 years from the protection of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 which seeks to prevent interference with a person's autonomy on the basis of unconvincing findings of incapacity. Considers the failure to protect a competent young person aged under 16 years from refusing treatment in relation to children's rights, the Gillick decision and other case law. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law Volume 33 Issue 2, 2011 pp 157-168 |
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| | Authors: | Chico, Victoria, and Hagger, Lynn |
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Child and family services |
| | | Fostering aspirations: reforming the foster care system in England and Wales. |
| | Looks at ways the foster care system could be reformed. Uses interviews with foster carers, a focus group with looked after children, visits to local authorities and a freedom of information request to develop a picture of current fostering practice. Identifies a number of key issues which need to be addressed, including: a shortage of foster carers, the commissioning of services, the support given to foster carers, and listening to children in foster care. Recommendations on how to address these issues are put forward. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Policy Exchange, 2012 pp 72 |
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| | Authors: | Harber, Alice, and Oakley, Matthew |
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| | | Breakdown of teenage placements in Danish out-of-home care. |
| | Looks at issues surrounding the breakdown of care placements amongst Danish adolescents. Focuses on a sample of 225 young people during the years 2004-8. Finds that over two fifths of young people experienced a placement breakdown during this time, with a substantial proportion lasting less than four months. Finds that breakdown was significantly associated with placements caring for more than one teenager (which increased the likelihood of placement breakdown), and open residential care (which, compared to foster care, was less likely to result in breakdown). However these factors only accounted for a small proportion of breakdowns. Concludes that no one factor is responsible for breakdowns, making preventive solutions difficult to identify. Suggests the only option is to continue experimenting with new approaches to young people's placements. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 13-22 |
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| | Authors: | Olsson, Martin, and Egelund, Tine, and Host, Anders |
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| | | Family participation in child protection practice: an observational study of family group meetings. |
| | Looks at ways child protection authorities involve families in decision making. Bases findings on observational data from family group meetings (FGMs) in Queensland, Australia. Identifies tensions between the goal of family inclusion and the FGM process. Identifies steps practitioners can make to create a more inclusive process. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 27 Issue 1, 2012 pp 1-12 |
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| | Authors: | Healy, Karen, and Darlington, Yvonne, and Yellowlees, Josephine |
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| | | Trauma-focused CBT for youth who experience ongoing traumas. |
| | Examines whether Trauma-focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (TF-CBT) is an appropriate treatment for young people with ongoing traumas. Looks at practical ways of implementing one evidence based programme. Uses case studies to demonstrate how strategies used to engage youth in TF-CBT can be applied in a wide variety of situations. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 637-646 |
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| | Authors: | Cohen, Judith A., and Mannarino, Anthony P., and Murray, Laura K. |
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Child health, development and welfare |
| | | Promoting positive well-being for children: a report for decision-makers in parliament, central government and local areas. |
| | Provides policy advice on promoting positive well-being for children, identifying six priorities needed for a happy childhood. These include conditions in which to learn and develop, and helping children to feel positive about themselves. This is a supplementary report to the Good Childhood Report 2012: http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/good_childhood_report _2012_final.pdf |
| | Publication Details: | London: Children's Society, 2012 pp 14 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Children's Society |
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| | | The good childhood report 2012: a review of our children's well-being. |
| | Looks at children's wellbeing, estimating that around half a million children in the UK aged 8-15 have low well-being. Found that choice and family have a large impact on children's happiness, and that the quality of family relationships is more important than the family structure. Also found that low well-being increases with age. It outlines six key priorities needed for a happy childhood, including relationships and personal finance. A supplementary report, Promoting Positive Well-Being for Children, provides policy advice on promoting positive well-being for children: http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/promoting_positive_we ll-being_for_children_policy.pdf |
| | Publication Details: | London: Children's Society, 2012 pp 63 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Children's Society |
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| | | Assessing PTSD and resilience for females who during childhood were exposed to domestic violence. |
| | Examines the long term impact on women of witnessing domestic violence in their childhood. Uses a study of 68 women who were exposed to family violence as children to identify risk and protective factors that influence adult levels of post-traumatic stress disorder. Finds that PTSD levels vary significantly depending on: whether mothers have mental-health problems and whether mothers had full-time, steady employment. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 55-65 |
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| | Authors: | Anderson, Kim M., and Bang, Eun-Jun |
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| | | Associations of childhood trauma, trauma in adulthood and previous-year stress with psychopathology in patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder. |
| | Considers the varying impacts of childhood trauma, trauma in adulthood, and current stress on different aspects of psychopathology, including: depression, borderline symptoms, PTSD and dissociation. Bases findings on interviews with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), as well as a healthy control group. Finds that sexual abuse, in childhood or adulthood, was associated with all measured dimensions of psychopathology; childhood emotional abuse was associated with depressive symptoms; and general traumatisation during childhood was related to dissociation. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 647-654 |
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| | Authors: | Wingenfeld, Katja, et al. |
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| | | Good practice briefing: the role of housing services in safeguarding children. |
| | Outlines the various ways in which housing services can promote the safeguarding of children and young people. Covers: early identification; multi-agency working; information sharing; and safeguarding homeless 16-17 year olds. Includes case studies, examples from serious case reviews, recommendations and further reading. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Shelter, 2011 pp 6 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Shelter |
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| | | A comparison of systems and outcomes for safeguarding children in Australia and Norway. |
| | Compares outcomes of child protection policies in Australia, where the focus is on protection and risk, and Norway where early intervention and prevention are the guiding principles. Finds that Norway's services reach a far wider group than Australia's, but both focus on the best interest of the child and children's rights. Assesses the relative merits of the two systems. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 96-107 |
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| | Authors: | Heggem Kojan, Bente, and Lonne, Bob |
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| | | Organizational climate, services, and outcomes in child welfare systems. |
| | Looks at how organisational climate affects outcomes for children and young people. Examines a US-wide sample of children and young people, caseworkers, and organisations. Assesses organisational climate by engagement and stress. Finds that abused children are best served by more engaged organisations. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 582-591 |
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| | Authors: | Glisson, Charles, and Green, Philip |
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| | | Pediatric response to a large-scale child protection intervention. |
| | Looks at the pressures put on the state of Texas by large scale child protection interventions. Focuses on the mass removal of children from the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) ranch, a settlement of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) just outside Eldorado, Texas, in 2008. Finds that insufficient resources and lack of cooperation from the compound's residents limited the overall success of the operation. Includes recommendations for future practice. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 574-581 |
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| | Authors: | Lukefahr, James L., et al. |
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Childcare and early years |
| | | Childminding between friends: a childcare factsheet. |
| | Provides details of when people should or should not register with Ofsted as a childminder. Includes examples of childcare arrangements between friends. Also outlines Ofsted's role, when they investigate, and provides sources of further information. |
| | Publication Details: | Manchester: OFSTED, 2011 pp 6 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | OFSTED |
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Children's rights, participation and attitudes |
| | | Your shout too!: children's views of the arrangements made and services provided when courts adjudicate in private law disputes. |
| | Reports the findings of a questionnaire completed by 141 children in England aged 10 years and over about whom a court welfare report had been written during a six-month period. Finds more children were satisfied with their residence arrangements than their contact arrangements. Over half were satisfied with the services they had received but some had causes for complaint or considered it to be too little, too late. For a minority, the complexity of their situations made it difficult to arrive at a conclusion that met the child's needs and accorded with their wishes. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law Volume 33 Issue 2, 2011 pp 123-138 |
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| | Authors: | Bailey, Sue, and Thoburn, June, and Timms, Judith |
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| | | Independent evaluation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program in family support service settings. |
| | Evaluates the effectiveness of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program. Uses data from a survey of over a thousand parents who had received either Triple P or a standard parent education programme. Finds that parents who received a Triple P Parenting intervention reported higher levels of needs satisfaction, but no significant difference on any secondary outcome measures. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 43-54 |
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| | Authors: | McConnell, David, and Breitkreuz, Rhonda, and Savage, Amber |
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| | | Parenting programmes in England: policy development and implementation issues 2005-2010. |
| | Explores the development of the policy for providing evidence-based parenting programmes in England and examines the implementation of local authority parenting support. Looks at the context of the government decisions to invest in parenting programmes. Presents findings from a study of implementation in five local authorities. Questions the problems of parent selection and the selection, training, supervision and quality of staff. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law Volume 33 Issue 2, 2011 pp 107-121 |
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| | Authors: | Lewis, Jane |
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| | | The impact of foster children's behavioural problems on Flemish foster mothers' parenting behaviour. |
| | Looks at the impact of foster children's behavioural problems on their carers' parenting. Looks at parenting behaviour, stress levels and behaviour problems within a group of foster families in Flanders over a two year period. Finds that behavioural problems heighten parenting stress, which in turn leads to less effective parenting. Suggests carers need more training to cope with the challenges of fostering. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 34-42 |
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| | Authors: | Vanderfaeillie, Johan, and Van Holen, Frank, and Trogh, Lenny, and Andries, C. |
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| | | Resourceful leadership: how directors of children's services improve outcomes in safeguarding: summary report. |
| | Outlines what is meant by resourcefulness and the core behaviours of resourceful leadership in children's services, specifically relating to safeguarding. Identifies the leadership characteristics of directors of children's services (DCS) and senior leadership teams (SLT) that impact on outcomes in safeguarding and child protection. Includes: leading collaboratively; focusing on results and outcomes; and leading through funding change. Concludes with questions for DCS and SLT to consider when reviewing individual effectiveness and organisational outcomes. Full report is available: http://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/download?id=144732&filename=resourceful-leader ship-dcs.pdf |
| | Publication Details: | Nottingham: National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services, 2011 pp 7 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO) |
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| | | Human trafficking: talking heads video. |
| | Film (12 mins) of different professionals (school worker, paramedic, doctor, policeman) talking about a young, pregnant woman who collapsed in a school playground. The young woman explains how she came to the UK from Mauritius to work for an agency and how the agency took her documents and forced into working long hours in a care home for the elderly. Draft guidance explains how the film can be used as part of training to highlight how to identify a victim of trafficking and to increase understanding of the experience of someone who is trafficked. Draft guidance is available at: http://www.mars.stir.ac.uk/resources/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Forth-Valley-201 1-Training-Guidance-for-Talking-Heads-DVD-draft.doc |
| | Publication Details: | Falkirk: Forth Valley G5 Partners, 2011 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Forth Valley G5 Partners |
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| | | Landing in Dover: the immigration process undergone by unaccompanied children arriving in Kent. |
| | Reports on the 'gentleman's agreement' in place between the UK and France, which conflicts with the UK Border Agency's duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This agreement enabled unaccompanied children to be sent back to France within 24 hours if they did not ask for asylum immediately. The report also states that children have experienced excessive periods of detention before being released into care. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Children's Commissioner for England, 2012 pp 70 |
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| | Authors: | Matthews, Adrian |
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| | | Looked after children and offending: reducing risk and promoting resilience. |
| | Looks at the risk and resilience factors that affect the likelihood of offending by children in care. Found that the care system provides good care to abused and neglected children, and that early entry to care followed by sensitive parenting, a stable placement, and good support from agencies, minimises the risk of offending. Recommendations include: children entering care should have a full developmental screening; and care leavers should have the option to remain in supportive placements until the age of 21. |
| | Publication Details: | The Adolescent and Children's Trust (TACT), 2012 pp 177 |
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| | Authors: | Schofield, Gillian, et al. |
| | Corporate Authors: | The Adolescent and Children's Trust (TACT) |
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| | | Rules of engagement: changing the heart of youth justice. |
| | Looks at areas in need of reform in the youth justice system. Argues that services have so far failed to either prevent young people from falling in to the system, or provide them with the help they need to free themselves from it. Underlines the long term impact of these failures, in particular the increased risk that young people will become persistent offenders. It argues that the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales should be raised to 12, that the youth justice system is being used to deal with problem cases that other services have been unable to tackle, and that the current system often promotes rather than reduces offending. Recommendations include a statutory duty on local authorities to provide early intervention services to children and families at risk of engaging in criminal behaviour. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Centre for Social Justice, 2012 pp 239 |
| | ISBN: | 9780956742681 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Centre for Social Justice |
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| | | Youth justice statistics 2010/11: England and Wales. |
| | Contains statistics on young people in the criminal justice system for the year 2010/11. Reports on characteristics of young offenders, offences which led to a conviction including sexual offences, sentencing, and young people in custody. Moves beyond previous years' reports, which focused on data from the Youth Justice Board, to include information from the Home Office (HO), Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) and youth secure estate providers. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Ministry of Justice, 2012 pp 84 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | Youth Justice Board for England and Wales |
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| | | Cutting them free: how is the UK progressing in protecting its children from sexual exploitation? |
| | Reports on sexual exploitation in the UK, surveying Barnardo's 21 specialist services. It found that sexual exploitation is not being prioritised in some areas due to funding pressures and that more needs to be done to help protect vulnerable children. The number of sexually exploited children Barnardo's works with has risen by 8.4% to 1,190 and awareness raising has reduced by 30% over the last year. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Barnardo's, 2012 pp 16 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Barnardo's |
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| | | Parenting conditions in the midst of suspicion of child sexual abuse (CSA). |
| | Looks at the impact of accusations of child sexual abuse (CSA) on parenting. Uses in-depth interviews with 19 parents to look at parenting conditions during CSA suspicion. Identifies six key areas of influence: uncertainty concerning abuse, issues around keeping their child safe, changes in parent-child relationships, changes in social support network, dependency on professionals and severe emotional effects. Covers the perspectives of both suspected and non-suspected parents |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 75-84 |
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| | Authors: | Softestad, Siri, and Toverud, Ruth |
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| | | Validity of criteria-based content analysis (CBCA) at trial in free-narrative interviews. |
| | Examines the use of Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) as a tool for measuring psychological credibility in cases of suspected child sexual abuse. Looks at child witness testimony from a mixture of confirmed and unconfirmed child sexual abuse cases. Applies the CBCA to these testimonies, and finds that it was able to distinguish between the two types of cases. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse and Neglect Volume 35 Issue 8, 2011 pp 613-620 |
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| | Authors: | Roma, Paolo, et al. |
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| | | Social work practitioners' experience of the clinical utility of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory. |
| | Looks at the clinical utility of a Swedish version of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory. Finds that the inventory is useful but some issues still have to be addressed. Identifies education, management support and practice in applying the method as key to future success. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Family Social Work Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 23-33 |
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| | Authors: | Glad, Johan, and Jergeby, Ulla, and Gustafsson, Carina, and Sonnander, Karin |
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Society and social welfare |
| | | The impact of austerity measures on households with children. |
| | Looks at how the deficit reduction plan is affecting family finances. Found that median income for households with young children is set to fall by 4.2% by 2015/16, compared to the projected overall fall of 0.9%; families with children under five, those with more than two children, and lone parent families not in paid work will be hardest hit. Also states that child poverty rates are set to increase. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Institute of Fiscal Studies, 2012 pp 32 |
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