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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Public Care"”.
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Difficulties in number experienced by children aged 7 to 11 in public care in England
… of educational attainment reached by children in public care. This study explores the causes and nature of looked-after children’s difficulties in mathematics, and suggests potential improvements for policy and practice in the future. I undertook case studies, across a period of a year, of five …
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Coping With the Educational Disadvantages of Children in Public Care: Substitute Caregivers' Educational Expectations and Involvement
… The findings indicating the positive effects of caregivers' expectations and involvement call attention to the importance of caregivers' role in children's education. In addition, the findings highlighted the affectionate relationship between substitute caregivers and children as a major factor …
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Changing relationships with the self and others: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of a Traveller and Gypsy life in public care
Background: The implementation of the Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care Green Paper (Department for Education and Skills, (DfES) 2006) and the subsequent Care Matters: Time for Change White Paper (DfES, 2007), witnessed the consolidation of a universal …
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Corporate parenting: the contribution of designated teachers
… concerning the education of young people in public care and some of the national initiatives that have been introduced to redress the difficulties experienced by this group; issues are within the broad area of social inclusion. The research was designed to explore the impact of the …
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The Curtis experiment
… under the arrangements recommended by the The Care of Children Committee, chaired by Dame Myra Curtis, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. The committee was set up in 1946 by three government departments to enquire into existing methods of care for children who have from loss of parents or …
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Older people´s public health care and social services. Functional ability, health complaints, agreement in needs assessment and care satisfaction
… complaints of older people receiving municipal care in relation to housing and informal care, and factors associated with medical health care, municipal care and informal care. Further, the aim was to investigate agreement in needs assessments between personnel and older people and to …
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Spatial narratives: redefining permanent gendered spaces for temporal female traders in Eveline Street, Katutura, Windhoek
… by female traders are sites of refuge and care within a highly contested urban realm. In Eveline Street, Katutura, Windhoek the capitalist uneven spatial development has led to continued movement from rural areas to the city. Yet the plethora of opportunities the street offers are limited …
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The diagnostic pathway to a surgical lymph node excision biopsy service in a HIV and TB endemic region in a Western Cape Tertiary Institution
In the HIV/TB endemic public care setting of the Western Cape, diagnostic consideration of patients with persistent lymphadenopathy is focused towards extra- pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), more than other infectious or malignant causes of lymphadenopathy. We investigated patients consecutively …
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The Church's Role in a Pandemic: Reflection, Response, and Revival
… focused on proclaiming the gospel and performing public care to help the world to comply with God’s will. The church must “pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on you,” attributed to St. Ignatius’ spirit (James 2 2:14—26). In chapter 4, I argue that the church …
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Masculinity, fathers and family literacy: Glimpses behind the ‘hard-man’ front
… exchange of the men’s compelling narratives of care. A series of community-based photography workshops, group discussions and follow-on one-to-one interviews took place with dads who were newly responsible for their children’s domestic and learning care. The findings suggest that in their new …
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… that underlie how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants of the …
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… that underlie how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants of the …
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A psycho-social study of the experiences of young people leaving care in Romania : lessons for service development
… explores the experiences of young people leaving public care in Romania, a field which is in its early developmental stage in literature, research and practice. A progressive legislative framework recently enacted (since January 2005) which acknowledges the need to support care leavers’ transition …
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Äldre personers sista tid i livet. Livskvalitet, vård, omsorg och närståendes situation.
… of this thesis was to investigate old people's care and quality of life during the last period of life, but also to investigate their own and next-of-kin's experience of this phase. The thesis is based on four studies using separate samples. The sample (n=1198) in study I was drawn from the care …
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Civil servant and professional – understanding the challenges of being a public service doctor in a plural health care setting in rural South Africa
… study is an exploration of the experiences of public sector doctors in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. In the context of a complex policy environment as well as a stressed public sector struggling to meet its constitutional obligations, the daily work of public sector doctors is at the civil …