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Home thoughts from abroad
- Author:
- LITTLE Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 15(3), 1998, pp.1-3.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Highlights some themes emerging from his recent American experience and contrast the approaches of the USA and UK regarding child welfare practice.
The care careers of young people in youth treatment centres
- Authors:
- BULLOCK Roger, LITTLE Michael, MILLHAM Spencer
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2 1994, 1994, pp.28-33.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Reports on a study of the care careers of extremely difficult and disturbed young people. The best composite of the young people found in Youth Treatment Centres (YTCs) was that of a young person seriously beyond control, in conflict with family, neighbourhood, school and the law. Children come from unstable families with rapidly changing membership whose difficulties were often compounded by chronic economic, health and relationship problems.
Predicting the rate of children on the child protection register
- Authors:
- LITTLE Michael, GIBBONS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 10(2), 1993, pp.15-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
There is a considerable difference in the rate at which children in England and Wales are placed on child protection registers. Explores this variation by examining socio-demographic and operational factors working at the local level. Three-fifths of the variance can be explained by this means. Exceptional authorities are described. A formula for calculating the expected proportion of children on the register in any area is described and links drawn to a wider scrutiny of child protection practice.