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Sofiya Alhassan; Luke Sudarsky; Gaurav Dangol; Wanjiang Zhou; Althea Turley; Ann-Marie Sylvia; Holly Laws – Child Care in Practice, 2025
Background: Toddlers spend a significant portion of their time within the childcare setting being sedentary. Therefore, interventions are needed to improve toddlers' physical activity (PA) within this setting. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a 10-week activity program on toddlers' time…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Physical Activity Level, Program Effectiveness, Child Care Centers
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Pösö, Tarja; Eronen, Tuija – Child Care in Practice, 2014
This article examines the outcomes of care orders from the point of view of social workers. The aim is to cast light on the "black box" of substitute care by analysing the practice-based view on outcome in order to contribute to the complex debate on the relations of care and outcome. The article is based on a study using a survey, focus…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Work, Caseworkers, Focus Groups
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Coman, William; Devaney, John – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Despite huge investment over the past 10 years, improving outcomes for looked-after children remains elusive. A challenge for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers alike has been the absence of a shared conceptual framework for considering and responding to the needs of looked-after children. A second challenge relates to the measurement of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care, Ecological Factors, Caseworker Approach