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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"children’s services"”.
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Safe families: A model of child protection intervention based on parental voice and wisdom
… are, or have been, clients of Family and Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region. The study utilised grounded theory, a form of qualitative research, and data were collected via a number of in-depth interviews with each of the ten participants. The participants, both men and women, …
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A constructivist grounded theory study of the decision-making processes of professionals in a Children’s Service, mixed multi-disciplinary assessment team
Since 2003, Children’s Services have sought to promote more consolidated work by professionals of different disciplinary backgrounds who might otherwise follow independent forms of practice. This is believed to enhance efficacy and reduce inequality in providing for vulnerable children (Boddy, …
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Collaboration for children: leadership in a complex space. A voluntary sector perspective.
… public and voluntary sectors in the context of children’s services in the UK. It explores how voluntary sector leaders ‘make things happen’ (Huxham and Vangen 2000) in this context, where the formal authority, control of resources, and decision-making appear to be in the hands of the public …
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Battling boundaries and conscience : a grounded theory of paediatric diabetes healthcare professionals’ experiences of safeguarding and child protection
Introduction: Managing diabetes in children is complex, and in some families, overwhelming life circumstances hinder their capacity to meet diabetes care recommendations leading to safeguarding concerns for healthcare professionals. This study explores how healthcare professionals navigate …
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A Gender-Informed Understanding of Children in the Care of Child Protection
… to explore the differential representation of children by gender in child protection services. The sample of children was drawn from a large child protection agency in south-western Ontario consisting of 1,041 cases. Child protection files were reviewed to derive study data. Results indicated …
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Navigating Post-Pandemic Leadership Succession in Child and Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health Nonprofits in the Midwest
… nonprofit organizations that provide family and children’s services. Using a phenomenological method, this research examines the prevalence and extent of current and future leadership deficits and the factors that contribute to their creation. Additionally, the study explores how the threat of …
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A Needs Assessment of Communicare's Children Mental Health Services
… Currently, most of the revenue from their children programs comes from Medicaid, which is a fee-for-services payer source. The Kentucky Medicaid Program is in the process of contracting with managed care organizations to oversee services that have been paid directly from Kentucky Medicaid. …
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Full-time class teachers' emotional wellbeing in an Ofsted outstanding primary school. A grounded theory study.
… by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted). Despite being associated with issues high on the national agenda including pupil wellbeing, pupil performance, teacher retention and teacher recruitment, the wellbeing of school staff is a cause for concern …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
… how the concept of participation constructs children as subjects within social welfare formations. It is the result of a qualitative and interpretive research project using narrative and discourse analysis as key methodologies. The research is theoretically framed within the social …
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Allegations against people working with children: a study of initial decision making
… the initial decision making of managers within services for children when faced with an allegation of abuse against a member of staff. Much has been written about thresholds for intervention in response to abuse of children within their families. When the alleged abuse or poor childcare practice …
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Young people leaving care: plans, challenges and discourses
… of rupture which are caused by the structures of children’s services. This study adds to calls for increased stability for young people, and recommends earlier planning for the future of young people in care. Implications for educational practice are presented, including the need to ensure that …
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The Atlantic Philanthropies – a study of the enactment of philanthrocapitalism in Ireland
… prevention and early intervention approaches to children’s services forms the empirical research conducted as part of this study. An analysis of the discourses used in these texts identifies children and parent’s individual behaviour as problematic and this is the cause and result of wider social …
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An exploration of the support and facilitation of young people’s religious preferences in children’s residential care services
… amongst young people living in residential children’s services in Ireland. Based on the recognition of the unique positioning of these services in the private domain of young people and their family’s lives, as well as the complex historic relationship between residential care and religion, …
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Policy and Politics matter: The shaping of contemporary social work in times of neoliberalism.
… work under neoliberalism, drawing on the case of Children’s services and learning disability. Third, I examine ‘policy practice’ and the concept of ‘choice’. I argue that social work has always had a concern with politics and policy but that in more recent years this has declined and has been …
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Early years teachers’ perspectives of integrated working and professional development: a qualitative exploration in a local authority in London
… the past two decades that have sought to promote children’s development and enhance their life chances (Barnes et al. 2018). Collaboration between professionals from different disciplines is considered to effectively support multifaceted issues that may adversely affect young children’s …
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Children’s Knowledge, Identity and Right to Participation in Driving Curriculum Decision-Making
… and how educators make use of knowledge about children and their interests for the purpose of curriculum decision-making, and the subsequent influence on children’s involvement. The study took a Participatory Action Research approach and examined curriculum construction in childcare-based and …
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Factors Associated with High Risk Infant Follow-Up Attendance
… and provision of interventions and support services. Most research on follow-up attendance has involved small, single sites. A retrospective analysis of population based data available in the California Children’s Services High Risk Infant Follow-up Quality of Care Initiative (HRIF-QCI) data …
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Recruitment and retention of children and family social workers: a case study
… and retaining social workers, especially within children and family teams, but reasons for these problems are not fully understood. The inner-workings of social work are little known outside the profession itself, contributing to a climate of public misunderstanding and vilification. The purpose …
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An exploration of attachment strategies among young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviour
… an exploration of statutory responses and services which were offered to people who engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. Methods: The research employed three interconnected research methods: a) a quantitative audit data of fifty cases which had been reported to the Children’s Services; b) …
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Exploring Manifestations of Pluriform Love in the Leadership of Christian Early Childhood Communities: A Phenomenological Study 2019-2024 in New Zealand
… through the marketization and standardization of children’s services nationally and globally.</p> <p>Purpose of Study</p> <p>Many factors contribute to the purpose of this study which seeks to understand and prioritize care and ‘love’ in the leadership of Christian Early Childhood Education and …
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