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Housing for disabled children and their families: an information resource
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An overview of information about housing for disabled children and their families, and ideas for improving their circumstances.
<>The purpose of the resource is to raise awareness of this important aspect of community care and to help non-specialists find out more about promoting positive change i</>...
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Understanding fathering: masculinity, diversity and change
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To what extent is there a 'common model' of fatherhood in a modern multicultural Britain that is changing fast?<>This research set out to investigate the parenting beliefs and practices of fathers from 29 'ordinary' two-parent families living in non-affluent neighbourhoods from four ethnic groups: </>...
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Kids selling Tanks – now THAT’s project-based learning
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by Alec PattonYesterday I saw the comedian Mark Thomas at the Brockwell Park Green Fair, and he mentioned a project he’d helped run at Lord William’s School in Oxfordshire, with student members of the Amnesty International chapter there.<>Working once a week during their lunch, the students set up </>...
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Parent Support Advisers – appraised by DCSF
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by Alec Patton<>From 2006-2008, DCSF invested £40 million in order to train and employ ”Parent Support Advisers” (PSAs) in 20 local authorities, with the Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA), which allocated funding, developed training tools, and was in charge of dissemination. The PSA</>...
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Customer Perception: Tracking Research
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Posted by Anthea Hollist<>In 2006, the DCSF commissioned BMG Research to undertake a 3 year customer perception tracking study of three key audiences: general public; parents of children and young people; and young people aged 11-19. The research had four aims: 1) to monitor perceptions of overall </>...
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Who is your favourite (or, indeed, least favourite) TV Mentor?
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by Alec PattonWho are the great (or deplorable) mentor-mentee relationships of TV, film, literature, and sport?<>We’ve been talking about mentoring in Learning Futures, and I’m widening the conversation to include you. I’m not going to say anything about teh characteristics of mentoring, because </>...
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Innovation in a compliance structure
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by Alec PattonI found the following sentence (which I’ve truncated for the sake of clarity) in a government evaluation document:Preparations… to develop the vision for transforming learning with schools are developing in a timely way.<>This strikes me as rather beautifully absurd, like saying of <>St</></>...
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