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Managing Children's Homes focuses on leadership, effective management, the allocation of resources, and ensuring positive outcomes for young people in residential care. The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of what needs to be taken into account when establishing and maintaining good practice on behalf of young people living in children's homes. The authors explain the considerable variation in quality achieved by children's homes and how this relates to management style, working environment and staff structures. The skills and qualities that make effective managers of homes are

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Originally published in 1974, this study, based on Wieder's investigation of a halfway house program designed for parolees previously convicted of narcotics offenses, raises important questions for semiotics and constitutes a major, empirically based challenge to much standard doctrine in the theory of signs, as well as in sociology. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

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