Based on research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, looks at change in services for children and young people … Children’s Hearing system. Argues that the purchaser/provider split; local government reorganization and the Children (Scotland …) Act will all affect collaboration in planning and service delivery for children and young people in difficulty. Identifies …

authority children’s homes sector to assess Power’s predictions regarding the “colonisation” and “decoupling” of management … audits within professional state agencies. The findings suggest that the introduction of a managerial audit in children …

to promote reading habits for children 0 to 3 years old and to strengthen parent‐children relations, was originally …

learning and overall experiences of children in an early childhood educational setting. Design/methodology/approach – The …

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with … specifications of children's activities and mothers' employment are estimated on survey data drawn from the National Family Health … Survey 1998‐1999 for all India. The joint specification combines four states of children aged 6‐14 (studying, working in the …

costs over the whole active life. Compared with a single woman, a married woman with two children suffers a total loss of …

human rights of children and its role in international production and trade. Evaluates efforts to eliminate the use of child … and trade policy as means to protecting the health and moral wellbeing of children.  …

Most people in rural China have no plans for retirement other than the ingrained Chinese tradition that children care … for old parents. Actually there are also no sources of social support such as social old-age insurance to rely on in rural … experienced rapid development in the beginning years but grounded to halt after 1998. Since either children or pension program …

economies. In its absence, their construction takes place on quicksand. Stunted children fail to grow and develop properly, with …