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    Transforming rehabilitation : a summary of evidence on reducing reoffending

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    Exploring the scale and nature of child sexual exploitation in Scotland

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    This report provides a summary of known evidence about the scale and nature of child sexual exploitation in Scotland, based on existing statistics and research and workshops with practitioner experts

    Economic impact of training and education in basic skills: summary of evidence (BIS research paper no.6)

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    This paper summarises recent quantitative evidence on the economic returns to having or improving literacy and numeracy skills. The summary includes evidence on earnings and employment, and distinguishes between returns to having basic skills whenever these are acquired, and returns to acquiring basic skills in adulthood. The review is confined to economic returns to individuals; macro effects - on productivity for example - are not considered

    The education of travelling children

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    Summary This report summarises the evidence from a series of visits conducted by Ofsted. HMI undertook these visits to examine the quality of the educational opportunities and provision for Travelling children and the extent to which they succeeded in supporting the educational attainment of the children

    Economic Impact of Training and Education in Basic Skills: Summary of Evidence

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    Methods and approaches to improving the emotional health and well being of children: A briefing paper concerning interventions to prevent internalising disorders

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    This paper presents a summary of the prevalence of somatic, anxiety and depressive disorders in children and of the known risk and protective factors associated with these problems. It then reviews the evidence for successful treatments and prevention programmes, focusing on psychological therapies rather than pharmacological interventions, with particular emphasis on interventions for children of primary school age
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