Are Schools Library Services equipped to survive in the Age of Information? by David Streatfield, Sharon Markless

“…Describes the results of an investigation in the the factors that would affect the survival and growth of School Library Services in England and Wales, including funding, staffing and service priorities. …”
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Look-alike modelling in violence-related research: A missing data approach. by Estela Capelas Barbosa, Niels Blom, Annie Bunce

“…This paper aims to provide proof of concept to create a synthetic dataset by combining data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and administrative data from Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW), pertaining to victim-survivors of sexual violence in adulthood. …”
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Hiérarchies urbaines et transitions énergétiques: une approche évolutive en Europe de 1800 à 2010 by Maximin Chabrol

“…This paper examines relationships between energy consumption and urban hierarchy evolution from 1800 to 2010 in France, Italy, Spain, England and Wales, Sweden and Netherland. This analysis is based on news energy consumption data including traditional and modern energy sources (Centre for History and Economics, Harvard) and on e-Geopolis database for population of urban areas 10 000 inhabitants and more (Moriconi F., CNRS, Avignon). …”
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Searching for the holy grail – excellent staff and carers who work with children by Kate Skinner

“…Since Utting's report, Children in the Public Care (1991), Warner's seminal report, Choosing with Care (1992) in England and Wales, and Another Kind of Home (Skinner, 1992) in Scotland, social work managers responsible for recruiting and selecting staff and carers who work with children have been exhorted to improve the methods they use. …”

COMMUNITY POLICING IN ENGLAND, WALES, AND EUROPEAN UNION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE by Erkan Pala, Ercan Balcıoğlu

“…Community policing philosophy has become an attractive field within the policing literature, exercised enthusiastically by police forces across England and Wales as a response to police and crime related issues ranging from poor policepublic relations to minor crime and disorder. …”
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“The Ages Humble Servant” : l’écriture de la catastrophe entre modernité et tradition dans The Storm (1704) de Daniel Defoe by Nathalie BERNARD, Emmanuelle PERALDO

“…Daniel Defoe’s first book-length work, The Storm, was published in 1704, i.e. a few months only after the violent storm that destroyed the southern counties of England and Wales in November 1703. An eye-witness of this disaster, Defoe borrows from records his own experience according to the methods of the New Science and also quotes over sixty letters purportedly written by observers from all over the nation. …”
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No Easy Way In by Kalev Aasmäe

“…This article aims to study the impact the 2012 criminalisation of residential squatting in England and Wales has had on the lived experiences and communal logics of squatters in London. …”
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Covid-19 in Wales: “One Team Wales” and/versus “Team UK”? by Stéphanie Bory

“…If, at the beginning of the pandemic, policies were much the same across England and Wales, the two countries quickly differed in their approach to tackling the crisis and implementing lockdown rules. …”
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Invisible Men: Unlocking Compassion and Understanding the Needs of Older Men Behind Bars by Louise Ridley, Kathryn E. Waldegrave

“…Men over 50 years of age are the fastest-growing population group in the prison system, leading to the prison service of England and Wales now becoming recognised as the largest provider of residential care for older men. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…We also perform numericalsimulations, conduct sensitivity test on a few parameters related totweets, and compare modeling predictions with surveillance data ofinfluenza-like illness reported cases and the percentage of tweetsself-reporting flu during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak in England andWales. These results show that social media programs like Twittermay serve as a good indicator of seasonal influenza epidemics andinfluence the emergence and spread of the disease.…”
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Use of Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring in a Preterm Fetus: Clinical Dilemmas and Recommendations for Practice by Karolina Afors, Edwin Chandraharan

“…Lack of evidence-based recommendations may pose a clinical dilemma as preterm births account for nearly 8% (1 in 13) live births in England and Wales. 93% of these preterm births occur after 28 weeks, 6% between 22–27 weeks, and 1% before 22 weeks. …”
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The eradication of Asian longhorned beetle at Paddock Wood, UK by Dominic Eyre, Jane Barbrook

“…An eradication campaign was initiated involving the agencies responsible for plant health and forestry in England and Wales. The area was initially surveyed by visual inspection of standing trees from the ground and 24 infested trees were detected. …”
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Sharing information about domestic violence and abuse in healthcare: an analysis of English guidance and recommendations for good practice by Gene Feder, Sandi Dheensa

“…Background Over two million adults experience domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in England and Wales each year. Domestic homicide reviews often show that health services have frequent contact with victims and perpetrators, but healthcare professionals (HCPs) do not share information related to DVA across healthcare settings and with other agencies or services.Aim We aimed to analyse and highlight the commonalities, inconsistencies, gaps and ambiguities in English guidance for HCPs around medical confidentiality, information sharing or DVA specifically.Setting The English National Health Service.Design and method We conducted a desk-based review, adopting the READ approach to document analysis. …”
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