Services For Children Research Articles

Disparities and Early Engagement Associated with the 18- to 36-Month High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Visit among Very Low Birthweight Infants in California

To determine follow-up rates for the high-risk infant follow-up (HRIF) visit at 18-36months among infants with very low birthweights and identify factors associated with completion. We completed a retrospective cohort study using linked California Perinatal Quality of Care Collaborative neonatal intensive care unit, California Perinatal Quality of Care Collaborative California Children's Services HRIF, and Vital Statistics Birth Cohort databases. We identified maternal, sociodemographic, neonatal, clinical, and HRIF program level factors associated with the 18- to 36-month follow-up using multivariable Poisson regression. From 2010 to 2015, among 19 284 infants with very low birthweight expected to attend at least 1 visit at 18-36months, 10 249 (53%) attended. On multivariable analysis, factors independently associated with attendance at an 18- to 36-month visit included estimated gestational age (relative risk [RR], 1.21; 95% CI, 1.15-1.26; <26weeks vs ≥31weeks), maternal education (RR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.06-1.12; college degree or more vs high school), distance from clinic (RR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.89-0.97; fourth quartile vs first quartile), and Black non-Hispanic race vs White race (RR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.84-0.92). However, completion of an initial HRIF visit within the first 12months was the factor most strongly associated with completion of an 18- to 36-month visit (RR, 6.47; 95% CI, 5.91-7.08). In a California very low birthweight cohort, maternal education, race, and distance from the clinic were associated with sustained HRIF participation, but attendance at a visit by 12months was the most significantly associated factor. These findings highlight the importance of early engagement with all families to ensure equitable follow-through for children born preterm.

National Survey of Sibling Support Services in Children's Hospitals (GP708)

National Survey of Sibling Support Services in Children's Hospitals (GP708)

Education services for children with special needs in inclusive schools during the pandemic era of COVID-19

This study aims to obtain information on educational services for Children with Special Needs during a pandemic in Indonesia, which includes 1) educational services for Children with Special Needs, 2) the role of parents, and 3) barriers for parents, teachers and children in learning during the pandemic. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach, case studies of research subjects on 9 parents and 9 accompanying teachers from 4 schools in Jakarta and Depok, Indonesia. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation collection. Thematic analysis is identifying patterns and themes by coding. This study found that educational services during the pandemic were carried out by schools that facilitated online and in-person face-to-face services, curriculum services, and assignments. Moreover, the role of parents during the pandemic is related to their role as educators, mentors, caregivers, and supervisors. Obstacles to education services during the pandemic were found to be obstacles to online devices, learning, and collaboration. Children's barriers are understanding and behavior. Parental support is very important in assisting learning and collaboration with teachers. It is estimated that learning loss will occur during online learning in pandemic, so the assessment needs to be carried out.

Delays in Children's Preventive Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Stay-at-home orders, social isolation recommendations, and fear of COVID-19 exposure have led to delays in children's preventive health services during the pandemic. Delays can lead to missed opportunities for early screening and detection of health problems, and increased risks for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Understanding prevalence of and reasons for missed, delayed, or skipped preventive health services is important for developing strategies to achieve rapid catch-up of essential health services. Using the Household Pulse Survey (n=37,064), a large, nationally-representative household survey fielded from April 14 to May 10, 2021, we examined prevalence of households with children who have missed, delayed, or skipped preventive health services, and factors associated with and reasons contributing to missed, delayed, or skipped preventive health services. About one-quarter of parents had children who missed, delayed, or skipped preventive check-ups in the past year. Delays in children's preventive health services were more common among respondents with higher education, households with greater numbers of children, and children who learned remotely or did not participate in formal education. Main reasons attributed to delayed preventive health services were limited appointments at health providers' offices (42.9%), concern about COVID-19 exposure at health providers' offices (42.2%), and closed health providers' offices due to the pandemic (29.0%). Physician office closures and concern about COVID-19 exposure resulted in over one-quarter of parents delaying preventive services for their children since the pandemic began. Coordinated efforts are needed to achieve rapid catch-up of preventive services and routine vaccines.

ADCS presidency to be shaped by trio of children's services reports

Steve Crocker, director of children's services at Hampshire and Isle of Wight councils, explains how his ADCS tenure looks set to be shaped by reviews of special needs services, schools and children's social care

Multi-agency safeguarding

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area inspections are back. However, as Jo Stephenson reports, there are some key changes children's services teams and practitioners need to understand

Coram innovation partnership uses tech to tackle problems

Tech experts joined a webinar hosted by the Coram Innovation Incubator to encourage senior children's services leaders to realise how technology could have a transformative impact on services

Plan to boost mental wellbeing

Cross-government vision for mental health must deliver more funding for children's services, say experts

PEMBAGIAN WARISAN ANAK TIRI DITINJAU DARI HUKUM ISLAM (Studi kasus Desa Bumi Mulya, Logas Tanah Darat, Kabupaten Kuantan Singingi)

This study examines the study of Islamic law on the practice of dividing the inheritance of stepchildren in Bumi Mulya village, Logas Tanah Darat sub-district, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau Province. The problem is that some of the people of Bumi Mulya village give inheritance to their stepchildren. From these problems, the question arises what are the factors that some of the people of Bumi Mulya village make and give stepchildren as people who are entitled to receive inheritance and how is the system for dividing the inheritance of stepchildren in Bumi Mulya village. This research is a type of field research. Sources of data in this research obtained through observation and interviews. data is processed by triangulation. Then it is narrated descriptively. The results of this study are the factors that some people make stepchildren as people who are entitled to inherit property are: stepchildren are part of the family component, to minimize disputes, to repay children's services in their participation in looking for property and caring for parents, stepchild inheritance division system The distribution carried out by the Bumi Mulya village community is by way of deliberation and grants.

Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic.

SummaryInternationally there has been much interest in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care and support of older people including those with needs arising from self-neglect and/or hoarding. During the pandemic English local authorities’ legal duties remained to respond to concerns about harm about people with care and support needs living in the community. This paper reports interviews with 44 participants working for adult safeguarding/adult protective services (APS) in 31 local authorities recruited from all English regions. Interviews took place online in November-December 2020 as the pandemic's second UK wave was emerging. Analytic induction methods were used to develop themes.FindingsParticipants reported some of the variations in referrals to their services with more contact being received from community sources concerned about their neighbours’ welfare. Participants provided accounts of the local organisation of adult safeguarding services during the pandemic, including in some areas the potential for offering early help to older people at risk of harm from self-neglect or hoarding behaviour. Online inter-agency meetings were positively received but were acknowledged to potentially exclude some older people.ApplicationsThis article reports observations from adult safeguarding practitioners about their services which may be of interest internationally and in renewing services that can sustain public interest in the welfare of their older citizens and in developing early help. The findings reflect those from children's services where online meetings are also predicted to enhance professional communications post-pandemic but similarly need to ensure effective engagement with service users and their families.

Effectiveness of 36 hospital learning centers in Thailand: continuation of child patient education, parent attitudes toward child's illness and service satisfaction.

Background: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of 36 hospital learning centers for the continued education of sick children using electronic distance learning television (eDLTV), parents' attitudes toward their child's illnesses and education, and service satisfaction of the centers. Methods: The sample included 4,430 children aged 4-18 years old with common illnesses, chronic illnesses and developmental disorders, as well as 4,430 parents who had taken care of the child for at least 6 months. The methods included attitude surveys, which were analyzed using chi-square tests and t-tests. Results: The factors associated with education continuation of the children were illness types (parents were less worried about children with common illness and more concerned about education of children with chronic diseases and children with disabilities), distance from home to school, transportation type, parents' education level, marital status, and family income. About 99.8% of patients with common illnesses continued their education, followed by 99.3% of disabled children, and 95.9% of chronic patients. Satisfaction score towards the services at the learning centers were high (mean scores: 4.28 and 4.43 respectively, out of 5 = strongly satisfied). Conclusion: After completing an education program through eDLTV at a center, a total of 97.7% of children continued their education and were highly satisfied with the service at the center. Parents had positive attitudes towards their child's illnesses and education.

GP concern about children's mental health services

GP concern about children's mental health services

Sosialisasi Pentingnya Aplikasi Reminder Jadwal Imunisasi di Puskesmas X Kota Padang

The Ministry of Health and UNICEF survey of more than 5,300 health facilities in Indonesia showed that 84% of children's immunization services were disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Regular reports from the Padang City Health Office As of February 2021 the average achievement of Complete Basic Immunization only reached 62.6% with a target of 95%, even though the immunization program was provided free of charge by the government at the Puskesmas and Posyandu. This community service facilitates health workers and cadres in disseminating information related to child immunization schedules and other health information. The Service Method is a mixed method by observing problems and designing needs and having webinars using zoom meetings. The result of the service activity is the design of the SMS Gateway-based Smart Immunization system to be one that can remind parents and make it easier for officers to record reporting, as well as an evaluation for policy makers in monitoring immunization achievements every month. The design of the application is also worthy of being developed by integrating with other applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Email. From the results of this service, it is hoped that it can be used as input and consideration in making an immunization schedule reminder application and disseminating other health information for parents and the community Keywords: Immunization, Information, Reminder, Covid-19, Padang City

Illinois governor announces initiative to transform children's services

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced the launch of a redesign of children's behavioral health services that promises better care coordination for children and greater transparency for parents. A blueprint for the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative is expected to be released before the end of this year.

The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate

AbstractEngland has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI), and since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). The inspectorate, a workforce made up of a majority of white inspectors, conduct regular inspections of all state schools in England, producing reports which comment on various aspects of educational provision, including teachers’ and students’ spoken language. In this article we deploy a raciolinguistic genealogy to examine the listening practices of the inspectorate, drawing on historical inspection reports generated from archival work, inspectorate language policy, and a large corpus of contemporary reports. We show how raciolinguistic ideologies are deeply embedded into the sociopolitical culture of the inspectorate, and how these ideologies translate into systems of sonic surveillance in which the nonstandardised language practices of students and teachers are heard as impoverished, deficient, and unsuitable for school. (Raciolinguistics, schools, language policing, standardised English, Ofsted, England, social class, ideology)

Rationale and Description of Implementation of Regional Collaborative Service Model for Enhancing Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children and Families-Oulu Collective Impact Study.

BackgroundThe psychosocial wellbeing of children and adolescents is an ongoing global concern. Despite positive outcomes of child- and family-focused programs, the fragmentation of services presents challenges. To enhance harmonization and diminish fragmentation of service policies, we implement a preventive collaborative service model for children and families. The rationale for our study is based on analyses of national and local data before implementing the service model in the pilot area.MethodsThe need for a preventive service model for children and families was demonstrated using national and local data sources. First, a national school health survey was utilized to screen adolescents' perceptions of their depressive symptoms and support. Second, time trends in child and adolescent psychiatric and child protection service use were investigated. For these aims, epidemiological data of the study area (city of Oulu) were compared with data from the whole country (Finland). Third, local usage data of the preventive stand-alone Let's Talk About Children (LT) intervention before the service model implementation were evaluated. After these analyses, Let's Talk About Children Service Model (LT-SM) implementation in the pilot area is described in detail.ResultsThe background data showed that 17% of the adolescents in the study area had reported depressive symptoms, and almost half of them had not received professional help. Child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient visits had increased during the last decade, but the number of visits remains lower in the study area compared with the country as a whole. The number of adolescent psychiatric inpatient days had increased contrary to a decreasing national trend. The number of urgent child welfare placements was also higher compared with the whole country. The local LT intervention data revealed very low utilization rates. These results indicated a necessity to enhance preventive and collaborative support for children and their families. This article describes the implementation of the LT-SM.DiscussionWe demonstrated excessive use of curative services in social and health care and insufficient usage of the stand-alone preventive intervention. The LT-SM is now piloted in one regional service area of the city of Oulu. Its effectiveness will be evaluated when enough data have been accumulated for statistical analyses.

Remote working in children's services

Many children's professionals have been working remotely during the pandemic. Charlotte Goddard looks at the pros and cons and asks whether it could become the norm once the health crisis is over

A systematic review of practitioner enquiry into adverse childhood experiences in primary care

This article presents the findings of a systematic review undertaken to assess adverse childhood experiences (ACE) enquiry among practitioners of primary care for children's services. Literature was eligible for inclusion if it included the primary care practitioner experience of ACE enquiry, was published from 1998–2021 and was in English. The most frequently cited themes across all included studies were time and training, with time the most commonly cited barrier. The findings indicate that aspects of the health visitor service model include facilitators to integrate ACE enquiry into routine health visitor practice, although the research highlights barriers of time and resources. Further research is required to expand the limited evidence base for incorporating ACE enquiry into health visitor practice in the UK and to similar models of care internationally.

Levelling Up: the key proposals for children and young people

Flagship policy paper sets out plans to boost education outcomes for pupils in disadvantaged communities and invest in youth training, but children's services leaders criticise lack of measures on child poverty

Optimalisasi Pemenuhan Hak Pendidikan Anak di Lembaga Pembinaan Khusus Anak (LPKA)

Along with the state mandate through a number of regulations related to the importance of fulfilling the right to education for school-age children who are fostered by the Child Special Guidance Institution (LPKA) in Indonesia, the consequence is that optimizing the fulfillment of children's education rights must be ensured to run well. This study aims to determine the situation of fulfilling the right to education of school-age children in LPKA and the importance of optimizing the fulfillment of the right to education for LPKA children in Indonesia. This study uses a qualitative method. Data collection techniques through interviews, observations, questionnaires using google forms and document studies. The analysis in the study was carried out descriptively. This study found that the situation of fulfilling children's education rights in LPKA from the aspect of the education service system was 15% in the poor category, the aspect of the availability of educators 24% in the less category and the aspect of the availability of facilities and infrastructure in the 18% less category. As a solution, optimizing children's education services at LPKA should be carried out through 4 (four) main strategies, namely first, improving the quality of the education system, both ensuring the quality of formal education services and life skills education; second, improving the quality of educators by considering the fulfillment of the ratio and the relevance of the educational discipline of educators; third, improvement of facilities and infrastructure; Fourth, to create an environmental ecosystem with character, through various positive habituation efforts.