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This article discusses the choice between care or supervision orders; conflict between preference of guardian ad litem and applicant
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Focuses on a court case regarding a mother's choice between child care and supervision orders filed in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland. Claims of a mother concerning public law intervention on domestic violence; Rules included in care and supervision orders; Grounds for choosing supervision order in relation to the case. more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Adoption & Fostering,
Vol: 29 Page: 94-97 2005 Spring2005
Kerry O'Halloran
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This article discusses a court case which concerns an application by a Trust for an order under Article 50 of the Children (N. Ireland) Order 1995 in relation to three children after one child was admitted for intra-abdominal tumour
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The article discusses a court case which concerns an application by a Trust for an order under Article 50 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 in relation to three children after one child was admitted for intra-abdominal tumour. The applicant Trust formed the view that the children should not be returned to the care of their mother and decided to seek placements for them with more...
International Classification:
Legal or care issues
Categories:
application for a care order
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Adoption & Fostering,
Vol: 32 Page: 80-84 2008 Summer2008
Kerry O'Halloran
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The article discusses a court case involving a Trust application for a care order for a child of a teenage single mother whose previous child had died in Northern Ireland
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The article discusses a court case involving a Trust application for a care order for a child of a teenage single mother whose previous child had died in Northern Ireland. The court considered the Article 50(2) of the Children (Northern Ireland) 1995 Order. A consultant clinical psychologist provided a report noting that the mother had been using and abusing alcohol and drugs after the more...
International Classification:
Legal or care issues
Categories:
application for a care order
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Adoption & Fostering,
Vol: 32 Page: 93-97 2008
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This article examines the activities of the Children's Committee of the London County Council (LCC) and what a contemporary newspaper referred to as a 'daring experiment':
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This article examines the activities of the Children's Committee of the London County Council (LCC) and what a contemporary newspaper referred to as a 'daring experiment': its efforts to discharge children from public care to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. Archival evidence reveals how Irish children were identified and separated from English children in care and, in many instances, more...
Geography:
the United Kingdom
Journal of Social Policy,
Vol: 32 Page: 75-92 2003
Paul Michael Garrett
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of pupil referral to a special school for children with reading difficulties
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Evaluation of the short-term effectiveness of placement in a special school for children with reading difficulties (dyslexia) revealed that statistically significant differences were achieved by a considerable majority of pupils on measures of reading accuracy, reading comprehension and spelling. These improvements were seen as uniformly consistent for the three separate pupil cohorts more...
International Classification:
Mental and behavioural disorders - Disorders of psychological development - dyslexia
Categories:
reading difficulties
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Irish Journal of Psychology,
Vol: 24 Page: 114-128 2003
Christine Chapple; Brendan Spelman
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This article discusses the evolution of children’s services in Ireland and prospects for the future
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The author reflects on the evolution of children's services in Ireland. He looks at how the country has transformed from having under-developed services and little suitable research capacity to having the potential to become one of the best places in the world for children. He highlights the roles played by international collaborations, the United Nations (U.N.) Convention on the Rights more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Journal of Children's Services,
Vol: 2 Page: 71-80 2007
Owen Keenan
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This article presents updates on the Four Nations Child Policy Network, a partnership among the organizations Child Care Northern Ireland
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Presents updates on the Four Nations Child Policy Network, a partnership among the organizations Child Care Northern Ireland, Children in Wales, Children in Scotland and the National Children's Bureau. Children's voluntary sector; Service consisting of a Web site, an e-briefing service and a paper-briefing service; News; Consultations; Legislative matters; Registration for e-mail more...
Geography:
the United Kingdom
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 8 Page: 312 2002
Elaine McEllduff; Nicola Kerr
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This article discusses vulnerable homeless children in Ireland
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The article talks about the cases of homeless children in Ireland without adult protection. It presents results from the 2004 study of the Health Service Executive regarding the children that are homeless. Several research proved the consequences and effects of homelessness to children, physically and mentally. Homeless children tend to have acute and chronic illnesses, hearing and more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
CornerStone,
2006
Fergus Finlay
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This study examined psychotic disorders in children and adolescents using the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia using the Northern Ireland Early Onset Psychosis Study data
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Diagnosing psychotic disorders in young people is difficult. High rates of co-morbidity may be one reason for this difficulty, but it may also be the case that current diagnostic categories are not the most useful when approaching the care of young people with psychotic symptoms. The Northern Ireland Early Onset Psychosis Study is the first study to investigate psychotic disorders in more...
International Classification:
Longitudinal - Psychotic disorders
Categories:
psychotic disorders in children and adolescents
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 14 Page: 207-216 2008
Karen Fulton; Mary Short; Diane Harvey-Smith; Teresa M. Rushe; Ciaran Mulholland
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This article discusses the importance of "looked after" children participating in their own health care and presents research into rates and types of participation
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The article discusses the importance of "looked after" children participating in their own health care and presents research into rates and types of participation. "Looked after" children are at higher risk for physical and mental health problems. Great Britain's amended Children's Act of 2004 requires that "looked after" children be afforded the right to more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
International Journal of Children's Rights,
Vol: 14 Page: 77-95 2006
Karen Winter
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The aim of this study was to examine the predictors of children's geographical knowledge of other countries
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Investigated the predictors of children's geographical knowledge of other countries. 261 English children (aged 6-13 yrs) were interviewed in order to assess their affect for, and knowledge of, 5 specific countries: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The children's travel experience to these countries was also assessed. The children comprising the sample were differentiated in more...
International Classification:
Education
Categories:
education
Geography:
International
Journal of Environmental Psychology,
Vol: 22 Page: 78-94 2002
Alison Bourchier; Martyn Barrett; Evanthia Lyons
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This article features the workhouses in Ireland in which people preferred to die than to enter into such places where one can find people of different race or class
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The article presents a reprint of the article "The Workhouses," by Harriet Martineau, which appeared in the previous issue of "Daily News." It features the workhouses in Ireland in which people preferred to die than to enter into such places where one can find people of different race or class. It also highlights the workhouse called Newtown-Limavady in Londonberry more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Sociological Origins,
Vol: 5 Page: 157-165 2006
Harriet Martineau
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This article discusses resource centres for victims of Institutional Child abuse
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Reports on the opening of some resource centers for victims of institutional child abuse in Ireland who live in England, by the Irish Survivors Outreach Service organization as of August 2002. Services provided by the centers; Reason for the opening of the additional centers; Deadline set by the Irish government to apply for compensation for child abuse. more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Community Care,
2002
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The aim of this study was to explore children's perceptions and experiences of safety and risk in one highly contested interface area in Belfast.
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The purpose of this article is to explore children's perceptions and experiences of safety and risk in one highly contested interface area in Belfast. Interface areas are landscapes divided by physical and symbolic boundaries on the basis of religious/ethno-national identification. The research draws on maps and focus group discussions with young teenagers from four schools in an more...
International Classification:
Focus groups - attitudes, needs, perceptions-young people and risk
Categories:
safety; risk;
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Children & Society,
Vol: 21 Page: 432-445 2007
Madeleine Leonard
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The aim of this study was to examine the gap in knowledge of children in the public care system from cross-community families who have one parent from a Catholic background and one from a Protestant background
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In Northern Ireland, most research on the impact upon children of living through the 'troubles' and in a divided society has assumed that children are from either the Catholic or Protestant community. There has been very little research with children from cross-community families who have one parent from a Catholic background and one from a Protestant background. It is known, however, more...
International Classification:
Other - religion
Categories:
community knowledge of diverse religious backgrounds
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child & Family Social Work,
Vol: 10 Page: 331-342 2005
Berni Kelly; Ruth Sinclair
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This article reports on the plan of National Children's Bureau (NBC) Northern Ireland (NI) with funding from the Gulbenkain Foundation to identify the key issues in understanding and meeting the needs of migrant children in Northern Ireland.
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The article reports on the plan of National Children's Bureau (NBC) Northern Ireland (NI) with funding from the Gulbenkain Foundation to identify the key issues in understanding and meeting the needs of migrant children in Northern Ireland. The experiences of migrant children in living and adapting to a new country will be explored and recorded. Moreover, the study will also look at the more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Children & Young People Now,
2008
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The aim of this study was to examine physiotherapy services and alternative therapies by children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy
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Describes the use of physiotherapy services and alternative therapies by children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP). Subjects were 212 parents of children aged 4-14 yrs with moderate to severe CP were identified from the Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register and a random subsample of their pediatric physiotherapists. Service use among families was high; on average the more...
International Classification:
Diseases of the nervous system - Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes - cerebral palsy
Categories:
physiotherapy services; cerebral palsy
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child: Care, Health and Development,
Vol: 28 Page: 469-477 2002
Jackie Parkes; M. Donnelly; H. Dolk; N. Hill
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The aim of this study was to examine respite care and coping strategies among Irish families of children with intellectual disabilities
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The study aimed to identify patterns of respite use and coping strategies among family caregivers in a region of Ireland. Firstly,we asked what child and family characteristics were associated with use of respite care. Secondly, we explored coping strategies reported by family carers. The study was undertaken with a view to informing respite service provision and redressing a gap in the more...
International Classification:
Mental and behavioural disorders - Mental retardation - intellectual disabilities
Categories:
intellectual disabilities
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
British Journal of Learning Disabilities,
Vol: 35 Page: 62-68 2007
Elaine Mac Donald; Elaine Fitzsimons; Patricia Noonan Walsh
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The aim of this study was to examine a framework for the assessment of vulnerable children and their families in five health board areas in the Republic of Ireland
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This article reports on the evaluation of a pilot project which tested the utility of a framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children and their Families in five health board (local authority) areas in the Republic of Ireland. The framework had been developed following a consultancy process with practitioners and managers from a number of disciplines. The evaluation sought to more...
International Classification:
Other - assessment of vulnerable children
Categories:
assessment of vulnerable children
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Journal of Children's Services,
Vol: 2 Page: 37-47 2007
Helen Buckley; Sadhbh Whelan; Cliona Murphy; Jan Horwath
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This study describes findings from a study of teachers of the experience of ethnic diversity in a selected sample of primary and post-primary schools
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This article presents findings of a study of the experience of ethnic diversity in a selected sample of primary and post-primary schools. Much of the research in the area of ethnicity and schooling is conducted in countries with a long tradition of immigration. The rapidity of social change in Ireland at a time of unprecedented economic growth is such that many schools, while still more...
International Classification:
Ethnic
Categories:
experience of ethnic diversity
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
International Studies in Sociology of Education,
Vol: 15 Page: 49-70 2005
Dympna Devine
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The aim of this study was to describe what children and adults know about the legal process and which legal terms and concepts are a part of the conceptual repertoire at different ages.
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Examined what children and adults know about the legal process and which legal terms and concepts are a part of the conceptual repertoire at different ages. 360 Irish 4-75 yr olds (mean age 21.6 yrs) in 9 age groups completed the specially designed Legal Knowledge and Perception of Court Interview Schedule. The measure elicited information on sociodemographic characteristics, more...
International Classification:
Legal or care issues
Categories:
knowledge on the legal process
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Irish Journal of Psychology,
Vol: 21 Page: 215-226 2000
Catherine Maunsell; Howard V. Smith; Clifford Stevenson
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This article reviews the theoretical approaches that espouse a child-centred approach in intervening with street children.
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This paper reviews the theoretical approaches that espouse a child-centred approach in intervening with street children. It focuses on two major themes, namely the rights of the child and client self-determination as proposed by Adler (Corey, 2001). The discussion acknowledges that providing street children with opportunities to participate in decision-making regarding their own lives more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 10 Page: 359-366 2004
Vasintha Veeran
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This study aimed to explore that the so-called 'children of violence' are perceived in terms of the serious cultural contradictions - that children and youth are not merely conceptualised as victims of the pathological, but they become pathogenic as well
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Ireland and South Africa, this paper contends that the so-called 'children of violence' are perceived in terms of the serious cultural contradictions of the adult world and rarely in their own terms. Does the concept and norm of childhood give us permission to give violence a defining site of origination? Does childhood have a discursive more...
International Classification:
Anthropology or ethnographic-War,
Categories:
violence children in context of their habit
Geography:
International
International Journal of Social Welfare,
Vol: 11 Page: 286 2002
Allen Feldman
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The aim of this study was to examine the transitions of young people, aged 16-18, leaving state care in England, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland
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This paper explores the transitions of young people, aged 16-18, leaving state care in England, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. It is based substantially upon the findings from collaborative research which developed in stages between 1991 and 1999—and is still ongoing. Four substantive areas are discussed. First, the legal framework of the three jurisdictions: the more...
International Classification:
Other - leaving state care
Categories:
leaving state care
Geography:
Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom
European Journal of Social Work,
Vol: 3 Page: 235 2000
Mike Stein; John Pinkerton; Patricia Kelleher
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The aim of this study was to discuss the process and findings from three Young National Children's Bureau talk-shops that provides insight into young people's views on growing up in communities in Northern Ireland and their experiences of sectarianism.
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Current legislation, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the Children (NI) Order (1995) and the Northern Ireland Act (1998), places an increasing emphasis on directly consulting children and young people in Northern Ireland. Within this context, there is a growing interest in the authentic views of children and young people on sectarianism. This more...
International Classification:
Focus groups - children's views on growing up in Northern Ireland
Categories:
sectarianism
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 8 Page: 65-72 2002
Berni Kelly
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