Children enter out‐of‐home care (OOHC) having experienced significant childhood adversities and trauma. Little is known about the short‐term impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on this vulnerable group. To gain some insights, we analysed the early impacts on the well‐being and experiences of children in OOHC and their carers using the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study data prior to and post the first lockdown restrictions. A total of 862 children, young people and their carers were interviewed either pre‐COVID‐19 restrictions (n = 567) (April 2019–March 2020) or post‐COVID‐19 restrictions (n = 295) (June–December 2020). While the two groups showed no significant differences in socio‐emotional well‐being, both the pre‐ and the post‐COVID‐19 restriction groups of children in OOHC had slight reductions in socio‐emotional well‐being. The interviews with the post‐COVID‐19 group showed that the pandemic restrictions affected children's well‐being and behaviour, education, social and physical activities, as well as time spent with their birth family. Likewise, interviews with carers post‐COVID‐19 found a negative effect on carers' well‐being, their ability to manage financially and their capacity to care and access services and support. The article contributes new evidence to inform OOHC policy and practice to support service systems facing unique challenges arising from a pandemic.
The Royal Society Centre for History of Science is currently developing an online picture database of historical images from the Society's collections. The website will act as a showcase for the organization's extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will provide a valuable tool for researchers. The Society's existing catalogues of printed books and archives are inevitably bibliographical. The advantages of an image-led database will be to create awareness of, and better access to, pictorial collections: particularly for those who cannot visit the Royal Society's reading rooms in person. 1 The website will enable the Centre for History of Science to reach a broader national and international audience-not just historians of science, but also researchers in the humanities and arts, the education sector and the wider public-thereby facilitating the exploration of science through its visual history. The most obviously pictorial elements of the Society's collections, the organization's portraits, are being recatalogued for inclusion in the database. Many of the items are already recorded to a basic level in the archives database (DS CALM for Archives), but this system was considered not to be fit for this particular purpose because it is not image-based. In part, recataloguing is also aimed at capturing data on illustrative material within the archives themselves, for example the originals of Philosophical Transactions plates, because previous cataloguers have not treated them as separate works in their own right but rather as part of a scientific paper or other textual source. It was therefore decided that a dedicated picture database would be beneficial to raise the profile of scientific illustrators, many of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society. Such a system would mean that more detailed and precise data could be captured for each picture providing an academically sound resource. Alongside the cataloguing, the pictures themselves are also being either re-digitized or scanned for the first time, thereby building up the Royal Society's digital image bank. Much of the Society's brand property is generated from here, so there is a clear internal administrative benefit in addition to opening up the collection internationally.
Donald Duck trained in medicine after a brief foray into civil engineering. After a year as general practice trainee in Skye he moved with his wife to the Medical Missionary College at Ludhiana, where he learnt Urdu and Hindi. He then moved to hospitals in Quetta and Kashmir, working in a wide range of specialties, including eye surgery, until 1968. From 1968 until he retired in 1993 Donald was the singlehanded general practitioner in Mallaig. He was an enthusiastic elder of the kirk. Having a keen sense of humour, he enjoyed many situations where his name led to confusion. Predeceased by his wife, Jean, in 1997, he leaves four children and seven grandchildren.
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