Achieving positive change for children? Reducing the length of child protection proceedings: lessons from England and Wales

Court decisions are required to remove children, compulsorily, from their families, and approve permanent care arrangements which restrict or terminate parents’ rights. The children involved are mostly young, have experienced serious abuse or neglect and may require permanent placement away from their parent(s) for their remaining childhoods. In England and Wales, justice to parents has dominated the rhetoric about these proceedings; this has resulted in lengthy proceedings, long periods of uncertainty for children and reduced placement options. In order to reduce delays, reforms in England and Wales have set a time limit for the completion of care proceedings. The Children and Families Act 2014 limits proceedings to 26 weeks; approximately 60% of care proceedings are now completed within this period. This article will discuss the impact of these reforms on decision-making for children, questioning whether they achieve both good decisions for children and justice for families. It uses the findings of an ESRC-funded study: ‘Establishing outcomes of care proceedings for children before and after care proceedings reform (2015–2018)’

No man is an island:a critical analysis of the UK’s implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty

The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled was signed on behalf of the European Union on 30 April 2014. On 13 September 2017, the European Union created a Directive (2017/1564) implementing its obligations under the Marrakesh Treaty. This Directive and corresponding Regulations came into force on 12 October 2018, which was the deadline provided to member states in implementing the Directive. On the 11th of September 2018, the United Kingdom made the Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018. The UK’s Marrakesh Regulations came into force the day before the EU deadline, and the lack of in-depth critical debate around this piece of legislation as well as the EU having initiated legal proceedings against the UK underscores the necessity of this paper. This paper seeks to assess the UK’s Marrakesh Regulations in light of both the EU legislation as well as non-EU international obligations to which the UK will remain bound beyond Brexit. This paper will ask: Can it be said that the UK in implementing the Marrakesh Treaty is fulfilling its obligations owed both to the EU as well as its own citizens?<br/

The right to legal capacity in Kenya

The report highlights the voices of people with mental disabilities themselves for the first time, outlining the need for substantial legal and social reform, and provides comprehensive recommendations to bring Kenya in line with international law, and specifically right to legal capacity guaranteed by Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

New usage reports, new insights! How to use your COUNTER data in decision making processes

Librarians have been receiving COUNTER Release 5 reports since February 2019 and are becoming familiar with the new robust usage data. In this paper three experts explain how the new usage reports provide greater clarity and how they give insight into users’ actions. Athena Hoeppner outlines the new reports and metrics and explains how to interpret book usage data and how to use the data effectively in decision making process. Sonja Lendi focuses on journal usage data and the differences between Release 4 and Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. She also explains Distributed Usage Logging (DUL). This protocol enables publishers to capture traditional usage activity related to their content that happens on sites other than their own so they can provide reports of “total usage” regardless of where that usage happens. Kornelia Junge explains how librarians can use Microsoft Excel to analyse usage

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4: The Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart City Applications

This proceedings book is the fourth edition of a series of works which features emergent research trends and recent innovations related to smart city presented at the 5th International Conference on Smart City Applications SCA20 held in Safranbolu, Turkey. This book is composed of peer-reviewed chapters written by leading international scholars in the field of smart cities from around the world. This book covers all the smart city topics including Smart Citizenship, Smart Education, Smart Mobility, Smart Healthcare, Smart Mobility, Smart Security, Smart Earth Environment & Agriculture, Smart Economy, Smart Factory and Smart Recognition Systems.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Editor's Note

The Ninth Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2022) was hosted by the UCLA Department of Linguistics on October 21-23, 2022. This editor's note to the Proceedings of AMP 2022 discusses abstract submission and acceptance, the review process, and the editors' acknowledgements

State of Utah v. Kerry B. Baker : Brief of Appellee

APPEAL FROM A CONVICTION FOR THEFT BY RENTAL AGREEMENT, A THIRD DEGREE FELONY, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 76-6-410 (1992), IN THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR WEBER COUNTY, UTAH, THE HONORABLE PARLEY BALDWIN, PRESIDING

State of Utah v. Donald Eugene Lewis : Brief of Appellant

Brief of Appellant APPEAL FROM CONVICTIONS OF TWO COUNTS OF UNLAWFUL TAKING OF WILDLIFE, EACH A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR; TWO COUNTS OF AIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE UNLAWFUL TAKING OF WILDLIFE, EACH A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR; AND FOUR COUNTS OF WASTING PROTECTIVE WILDLIFE, EACH A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR; IN THE SDCTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR KANE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE DAVID L. MOWER PRESIDIN

State of Utah v. Donald Eugene Lewis : Brief of Appellee

Brief of Appellee APPEAL FROM A CONVICTION FOR TWO COUNTS OF UNLAWFUL TAKING OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, CLASS A MISDEMEANORS, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 23-20-4 (1991), TWO COUNTS OF WASTE OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, CLASS B MISDEMEANORS, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 23-20-8 (1991) , TWO COUNTS OF AIDING OR ASSISTING ANOTHER IN THE UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, CLASS A MISDEMEANORS, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 23-20-23 (1991), AND TWO COUNTS OF AIDING OR ASSISTING ANOTHER IN THE WASTE OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, CLASS B MISDEMEANORS, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 23-20-23 (1991), IN THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR KANE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE DAVID L. MOWER, PRESIDIN