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Conflicts in Professional Concern and the Exclusion of Pupils with SEMH in England
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Thompson, Ian; Tawell, Alice; Daniels, Harry – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2021
Pupils with Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs are disproportionately excluded from schools in England. Drawing on data collected from interviews with Local Authority Education Officers in 2017/18 in a project that looked at disparities in rates of permanent exclusion across the UK, this article explores how the influence of perverse…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
Multigenerational Effects on Children's Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes: A Within-Child Investigation
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Tanskanen, Antti O.; Danielsbacka, Mirkka – Child Development, 2018
Associations between grandparental investment and child outcomes were investigated using three waves of a longitudinal British Millennium Cohort Study that included children between the ages of 9 months and 5 years (n = 24,614 person-observations from 13,744 children). Grandparental investment was measured by parent--grandparent contact frequency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Questionnaires, Screening Tests
Outcomes of a New Residential Scheme for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Taiwan: A 2-Year Follow-Up
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Chou, Y-C.; Pu, C.; Kroger, T.; Lee, W.; Chang, S. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: The Taiwanese government launched a new programme in November 2004 to support adults with intellectual disabilities living in smaller facilities. This paper aims to evaluate the service outcomes of this new residential scheme over 2 years including those residents who moved from an institution and those who moved from their family.…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Financial Support
Challenges of the Secondary School Context for Inclusive Teaching
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Pearce, Michelle; Gray, Jan; Campbell-Evans, Glenda – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
Senate and State Government reviews into inclusion in Australian schools during the last two decades have revealed that the inclusion of students with disabilities in schools has proved challenging. A qualitative study involving interviews with 50 leaders in inclusive education suggest that currently the secondary school context is a barrier to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Social Justice, Equal Education
School Improvement in the Marketplace: The Case of Residential Special Schools
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Smith, Mark; McKay, Euan; Chakrabarti, Mono – Improving Schools, 2004
Over the past couple of decades, residential special schools in Scotland have faced fundamental changes to the way they operate. This has involved the withdrawal of state funding, a shrinkage of the sector and a situation in which schools now have to sell their services in a market economy in order to survive. This article gives a brief outline of…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Special Schools, Behavior Problems, Children
Mental Health Problems among Child Welfare Clients Living at Home
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Iversen, Anette Christine; Jakobsen, Reidar; Havik, Toril; Hysing, Mari; Stormark, Kjell Morten – Child Care in Practice, 2007
The great majority of children receiving intervention from child welfare and protection services (CWS) in Norway live at home. The purpose of this study was to assess mental health problems among these children. Data stem from a population-based study, the Bergen child study, conducted in 2006. Of a sample consisting of 4,162 children in the fifth…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Health Services, Emotional Problems, Mental Health Programs