Management matters: a practice guide

A practice guide based on research about leadership and management in children's homes. For managers and staff teams working in children's residential care

Neglect matters: a multi-agency guide for professionals working together on behalf of teenagers

Neglect matters: a multi-agency guide for professionals working together on behalf of teenager

Factors influencing the quality of residential child care

This presentation outlines the current position in England in respect of children's residential provision, takes a close look at leadership and resource issues as they relate to the quality of outcomes for young people and considers the prevailing issues in respect of the quality of car

The role of external manager within residential child care: a view from research

Drawing on research findings, the presentation focuses on what matters in executing the role of external manager, including how and when support to children's homes is provided, the influence of the boundary around the children's home and the relationship between the external manager and the residential manager

Looked after children and young people and their communities

This presentation focuses on the role of ‘community’ in the lives of looked after children and young people. The research set out to establish what is known currently about these areas. The project forms part of the ‘Connected Communities’ research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. There were two main aspects to the research, namely a scoping study and consultation workshops with young people aged over 12 years. The study focuses on the dynamic relationships between looked after children and their communities, the contribution which young people make, the positive value which they place on being ‘in care’, the role of resilience and the influence of transitions. Friendship networks and relationships with communities are seen to be important parts of the lives of young people and meaningful participation is a key factor in developing stability in relationships. Concepts of participation and empowerment form part of an ecological framework which locates the community context as central to building resilience for looked after children and young people

A scoping review to establish the relationship of community to the lives of looked after children and young people

Friendship networks and relationships with communities are important parts of the lives of looked after children and young people (LACYP). Much of legislation, policy, practice and research focuses on „the care experience‟ itself, as distinct from young people‟s everyday lives and their connectivity with wider environments. Considerable lack of understanding remains about what being „in care‟ means. This often results in prejudice and stigma. Groups set up specifically for LACYP offer opportunities to develop networks and relationships with adults and young people, and to raise awarenesses. Transitions may happen early and be experienced frequently by LACYP, however, they can offer new opportunities and positive relationships with different people. Meaningful participation in communities such as schools is an important factor in developing stability in relationships. Concepts of participation and empowerment form part of an ecological framework which locates the community context as central to building resilience for LACYP. What constitutes community cohesion and connectedness for LACYP requires a fine balance between the interests of protection and participation. Successful interconnectedness is a matter of shared concern for all. The key challenge remains that of identifying how stable community relationships for LACYP may be strengthened and supported to dynamic mutual benefit. These documents are outputs from the same project: 1) an end of project discussion paper; 2) an extended version of the discussion paper; and 3) four short guides for practice and polic

Editorial

I am delighted to welcome readers to this themed issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, where the focus lies with leadership and management. Given the extent and range of material written about both of these topics, along with the plethora of modules and courses geared towards imbuing positive achievement in these respects, you may be thinking – justifiably – that tackling these areas represents a high ambition for a single issue. I hope that you will read on and agree that the authors here have put their shoulders to the wheel with great energy and have offered a mass of thought-provoking insights

Positive leadership and management in residential child care : what do these involve and how do we bring them about?

This short article reports on an interview with Graham McPheat, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Strathclyde. Drawing on his experience as a children's homes manager and educator, Graham offers a starting point for debates about the nature of leadership and management in children's homes, and ways of bringing about best practice. Graham considers aspects of the 'leadership toolkit' by thinking mainly about the distinctions between leadership and management, ways of establishing leadership approaches in children's homes and the concepts of 'learning organisation' and 'managing risk'

THE EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This session presents preliminary results from a study that attempts to examine the experiences of Black psychologists teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This knowledge can be used to improve the experiences of Black psychologists in higher education, enhance the appeal of academia, and increase the opportunity for professional success

Investigating the effect of target of rapamycin kinase inhibition on the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii phosphoproteome: from known homologs to new targets

Recuperado de: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/310102v1Target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is a conserved regulator of cell growth whose activity is modulated in response to nutrients, energy and stress. Key proteins involved in the pathway are conserved in the model photosynthetic microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, but the substrates of TOR kinase and downstream signaling network have not been elucidated. Our study provides a new resource for investigating the phosphorylation networks governed by the TOR kinase pathway in Chlamydomonas. We used quantitative phosphoproteomics to investigate the effects of inhibiting Chlamydomonas TOR kinase on dynamic protein phosphorylation. Wild-type and AZD-insensitive Chlamydomonas strains were treated with TOR-specific chemical inhibitors (rapamycin, AZD8055 and Torin1), after which differentially affected phosphosites were identified. Our quantitative phosphoproteomic dataset comprised 2547 unique phosphosites from 1432 different proteins. Inhibition of TOR kinase caused significant quantitative changes in phosphorylation at 258 phosphosites, from 219 unique phosphopeptides. Our results include Chlamydomonas homologs of TOR signaling-related proteins, including a site on RPS6 with a decrease in phosphorylation. Additionally, phosphosites on proteins involved in translation and carotenoid biosynthesis were identified. Follow-up experiments guided by these phosphoproteomic findings in lycopene beta/epsilon cyclase showed that carotenoid levels are affected by TORC1 inhibition and carotenoid production is under TOR control in algae.National Science Foundation CAREER MCB-155252