What are Children's Centres? The Development of CC Services, 2004–20081

Children's centres are intended to be a mainstream, universal service. They began in 2004 and their origins are diverse. Some replaced various forms of local provision, most notably Sure Start programmes; others were established from scratch. Issues for exploratory empirical work have been identified from the guidance issued by central government. Using interview data from three urban local authorities, this article explores the nature of the ‘core offer’ that centres are expected to provide and the way in which they have pursued the goal of integrating staff and services. The article highlights the problems of balancing a focus on the child and on the parent; of reconciling childcare provision as part of the employability agenda and as a means to educational achievement for the child; of permitting local variation while achieving consistency; of the role of monitoring in relation to developing good practice; and of achieving integration in a mixed economy of care. We find that despite the greater specification of the core offer for children's centres compared to that for Sure Start, there are substantial differences between children's centres in terms of services, while the mixed economy of provision poses considerable challenges to the goal of integration.     

何以安妥灵魂:<<废都>>和<<白夜>>的文化解读

庄之蝶与夜郎等都是乡下来的“都市人”。他们离开故土闯入都味着与农业文明割断脐带,而社会大转型时期知识分子的边缘化和社会严重失序他们倍感困惑和焦虑,他们的文化心理决定着他们向传统文化退缩。     

Nonfamilial kinship carers—Who are they and what support do they need to nurture children?

There is a growing body of literature about kinship care in the Western world; however, much of it focuses on grandparent care. A lesser known aspect of kinship care is the care of children by nonrelatives known to the child or their family. What little research exists about this group suggests that such placements are less stable than familial kinship care. This article reports a research study in Victoria, Australia, that explored nonfamilial kinship care through analysis of administrative data, interviews with young people and carers, and focus groups with kinship care support workers. It emerged that current administrative databases are not yet able to reliably identify the carer relationship, and thus the extent of such care arrangements cannot accurately be determined. Interviews and focus groups revealed that nonfamilial kinship care is diverse and qualitatively different from familial kinship care, bearing some similarities to foster care yet managed very differently. It is suggested that policymakers need to pay more attention to conceptualizing nonfamilial kinship care within kinship care policy frameworks and that greater attention is needed to the individual support needs of children in such placements and their carers.     

<<阅微草堂笔记>>因果报应问题辩证

《阅微草堂笔记》一书含有不因果报应的内容，历来论者对此大多持否定态度。本文结合文言笔记小说的传统题材，通过对纪昀思想以及作品具体分析，认为：写因果报应，只是纪昀曲笔为文的一种手段，其真正的目的在于暴露黑暗腐败的官场和世风日下的社会。     

谈谈学习新<<会计法>>的几点体会

为了更好适应新形势要求及解决近年来较为严重的会计信息失真问题,有必要对《会计法》进一步修订。《会计法》修订前后的变化主要表现在立法宗旨、会计责任主体、会计核算规则、会计监督体系、会计人员管理、法律责任等方面。     

一个不屈的灵魂:读毛姆的<<不可征服的>>

分析了《不可征服的》中女主人公安妮特的形象,她是一个不屈的反抗者,通过这个人物把毛姆对反侵略战争的深刻思考表现了出来.     

When farmers are planting houses …

This paper examines the reasons behind the continual growth of the phenomenon of famers ‘planting’ cheap and substandard houses on farmland in rural China repeatedly and without government permission. The practice has been commonly interpreted by local governments as schemes instigated by greedy farmers to maximise compensation payments from the government when their properties are requisitioned for public infrastructural or private development projects. Researchers however have found that such practices are measures farmers learnt from others to insure themselves against land grabs as well as inadequate compensation offered by local governments and developers. Their vulnerability however also spanned a growing illegal industry where farmers short of cash were lured into participating in organised ‘house planting’ projects although they could be caught and put in jail by local authorities. Other researchers are equally concerned by the threat of food security should these incidences continue to escalate. However, these problems would not be easily addressed because the survival of local governments has grown to be heavily dependent on both the huge revenues generated by and winning political mileage from urbanising the rural, or converting agricultural to non-agricultural lands.     

求实·创新·腾飞

经过广大求助管理工作者多年的不懈努力，开拓创新，郑州市求助管理站已从昔日荒凉的收容遣送站发展成今天的“郑州市花园式单位”；