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The measurement of children's quality of life has an important role to play in improving their experience of health and … measures that are not only comprehensible to children of different age groups, but also meaningful to parents and health … the development of robust quality of life measures specifically for children and also the use of these measures in …
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Communicating effectively with youth is tantamount to walking the plank on a snakeboard — even if you can manoeuvre the snakeboard down the plank, you are bound to fall off the end before you can ride it back to the mother ship. Weaving in and out of the increasing advertising and promotional...
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Child impact statements are a tool for assessing the potential impact of policy, provision, legislation etc on children … presents a number of difficulties with the approach as a means of improving children's well‐being and argues that there is … children.  …
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beneficial change for children but in general suffer from donor‐led managerial approaches, the dominance of upward accountability … civil society are failing to protect millions of vulnerable children and promote their participation in decision‐making. But … better outcomes for children are possible. This article articulates the problems but also demonstrates how: (1) partnerships …
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. Clinicians completed contextual (Paddington Complexity Scale - PCS) and clinical change (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for … Children and Adolescents - HoNOSCA) questionnaires on admission and discharge for consecutive admissions to the unit between …
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This article focuses on the conditions that are conducive to effective work on reducing children's vulnerability to … children and young people. Two ideas are discussed: distributed expertise and relational agency. Distributed expertise …
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This article explores some of the contemporary challenges facing leaders of children's services. Using the theoretical … facing children's service leaders. It argues that a distributed and connected model of leadership is the best available in … contained in the England and Wales Children Act 2004. The article argues that the key leadership skills are about making sense …
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The article explores the drivers for legislative and policy change in children's social care in England over the past … 60 years. It describes the factors that led to the major children's social care legislation and explores how these …
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organising their work around children's needs to promoting their rights. The rights‐based frameworks they use are informed by the … anthropologists about children in three situations ‐ at work, on the move and facing violence ‐ is used here to reveal the problems …
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. Information about regulation of Internet marketing to children based on Federal Trade Commission regulations and guidelines … explained. Review of some of the Internet sites commonly visited by children provides additional guidelines for Internet …
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