Editorial Vol11 no1 by Irene Stevens

“…As this issue of the Journal goes to press, the work of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) has been incorporated within a new Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS). …”

Book review: Kinship care: Fostering effective family and friends placements. Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers London, Jessica Kingsley Publications, 2008. 254pp, ISBN 978 1 84310 631... by Leon Fulcher

Developing quality indicators for learning with care by Graham Connelly

“…As part of its response to the report, the Scottish Executive commissioned work to develop training and other support materials aimed at improving educational outcomes for looked after children and young people. …”

Participation in residential child care in Germany by Bernhard Babic, Liane Pluto

The X factor: reflections on containment by Alastair Reid

Residential child care and the psychodynamic approach; is it time to try again? by Charles Sharpe

Exploring a role for performance management in residential child care by Russell Sutherland

“…While agencies such as the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Scottish Social Services Council have a role in setting and monitoring standards, it is argued that their activities are not focused enough to ensure that the mistakes highlighted in inquiries will not be repeated. …”

Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative by Annie THIEC

“…Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary of State for Scotland and whose remit was to prepare draft standing orders for the new institution, recommended in its report published in December 1998 that a “participative approach to the development, consideration and scrutiny, of policy and legislation” be adopted by the Scottish Parliament.As the people of Scotland are about to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their new devolved institution, can it be said that the ‘people’s parliament’ has lived up to its name?…”
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Regards et expériences de voyageurs français sur l’Écosse à travers l’exemple des récits de Pierre-Étienne Denis Saint-Germain-Leduc et de Michel Bouquet dans les années 1830-1850... by Marion Amblard, Sabrina Juillet-Garzón

“…How did French travellers from the 1830s to 1850s view Scotland and its people? What factors influenced their perception of the nation? …”
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The Question of the vis-à-vis: Scotland and Others by David McCRONE

“…The upsurge in ‘being English’, for example, has come about in the context of not being ‘European, crystallised in the 2016 Brexit debate and vote, and the rise of right-wing Conservatism in England. ‘Being Scottish’, on the other hand, has been reinforced contra this English turn, and as a result, Scots have become more ‘European’.From the outset, at least from the 14th century, Scots were a ‘mongrel people’, defined by territorial/civic rather than cultural/ethnic characteristics, as a matter of raison d’être. …”
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Variation in changes in the incidence of colorectal cancer by age and association with screening uptake: an observational study by Annie S Anderson, Callum G Fraser, Judith A Strachan, Robert JC Steele, Gavin RC Clark, Thomas G Godfrey

“…Objectives In developed countries, the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) has declined in the over 50 years age group but increased in younger people. We studied CRC incidence by age and the influence of screening uptake.Design Age-standardised and sex-standardised incidences for CRC from 1997 to 2017 were obtained from the Scottish Cancer Registry (SCR). …”
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“Signing off on the right side of History?” Relating in Louise Welsh’s apocalyptic trilogy by Marie-Odile PITTIN-HEDON

“…This article examines the way the Scottish writer Louise Welsh contributes to the trend of postapocalyptic fiction in the 21st century, with her plague times trilogy. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…In the face of this colonial rebellion, British playwrights produced images of metropolitan cultural consolidation, mobilizing Scottish characters to forge a broader, Celtically inflected British identity that ideologically aligned the people of England and Scotland in clear opposition to the mutinous hordes of India. …”
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A Summary of the Best Evidence for Wet Pack Management by Yi L, Chen Y, Hu R

“…Liangying Yi,1,2 Yanhua Chen,1,2 Ruixue Hu1,2 1Department of Sterile Processing Nursing, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University/West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of Education, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yanhua Chen, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 20, Section 3, South Renmin Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, People’s Republic of China, Email 402888515@qq.comBackground: Wet pack after steam sterilization of medical devices in healthcare facilities are unacceptable.Purpose: To retrieve, evaluate and integrate the best evidence related to wet pack management.Methods: We searched the JBI, Up To Date, BMJ, National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Cochrane library, PubMed, Guideline International Network (GIN), AORN Journal, and other databases using the pyramid “ 6S” model for guidelines, expert consensus, systematic reviews, evidence summaries, decisions, recommended practices, and technical reports on wet pack management. …”
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Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias by Rose Roberto

“…More than 10 years before Darwin’s Origin of Species, a book titled Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation about evolution or ‘transmutation’ was anonymously authored by Scottish publisher Robert Chambers. The first edition sold out on both sides of the Atlantic. …”
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The Seasons by James Thomson and the Baltic German Poetry about the Seasons in the Era of Baltic Enlightenment by Kairit Kaur

“…James Thomson (1700–1748) was an 18th century Scottish poet and playwright. Son of a Presbyterian minister, he studied at the College of Edinburgh to become a minister (1715–1719). …”
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We Walk: a person-centred, dyadic behaviour change intervention to promote physical activity through outdoor walking after stroke—an intervention development study by Stephan U Dombrowski, Brendan McCormack, Maggie Lawrence, Frederike Van Wijck, Jacqui H Morris, Linda A Irvine

“…Objectives To develop We Walk, a theoretically informed, 12-week person-centred dyadic behaviour change intervention to increase physical activity (PA) in community-dwelling people with stroke (PWS) through outdoor walking.Design Three-phase intervention development study. …”
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Par-delà le sang et la guerre : les enjeux de la conceptualisation diplomatique de l’Alliance franco-écossaise au Moyen Âge by Clément GUÉZAIS

“…By looking at the diplomatic sources that initially defined and shaped the Alliance, it appears that the Franco-Scottish league was serving more than one purpose, that its military aspects were inherently limited, and that its main ambition was probably not to crush the English might on conventional battlefields. …”
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Transition Guide Dissemination to Foster Patient–Care Team Conversations: A Childhood Arthritis Rheumatology Research Alliance Transition Learning Collaborative Pilot Implementatio... by Joyce C. Chang, Gabrielle Alonzi, Cora Sears, Nicole Bitencourt, Alex Hernandez, Rosemary Peterson, Risa Alperin, Rebecca S. Overbury, Mariel dela Paz, Lindsay N. Waqar‐Cowles, Patience H. White, Kristine Carandang, Erica F. Lawson, for the CARRA Transition Workgroup

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Modeling the relationship between the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception by leila jahantigh, Abbas Babaeenezhad, Mohsen Zayandehroudi, saeed sayadi

“…Institutions and business organizations are more inclined to acknowledge consequential ethics than statutory ethics, and the reason is partly due to the persuasive arguments of Adam Smith, the Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. …”
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