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ABSTRACTThis paper presents findings from a study of how care leavers access and use housing services, and what they said had helped them to do so. The sample comprised 80 care leavers, and, for comparison, a group of 59 young people (termed 'in difficulty') who met certain criteria of disadvantage. Care leavers were found to have fewer crisis transitions and less experience of homelessness, together with a much higher level of autonomy and support in their first accommodation, relative to other young people in difficulty. Several factors are identified that, from the care leavers' point of view, contributed to their better access and use of housing services, including having family and friends to turn to, and leaving care teams that negotiated on their behalf with housing services. The paper concludes that care leavers had more positive housing experiences than other young people in difficulty, helped by the improved preparation for independence and ongoing support available to them from leaving care teams.

Based on research from the Thomas Coram Research Unit, the contributors to this text look at the views and experiences of young people and provide an encouraging outlook of what those in care have the potential to achieve. Those factors that help to result in more successful outcomes are identified, and policy recommendations are made, for enabling young people in and leaving care to triumph when the odds are stacked against them. In Care and After adds a new dimension to the current literature on local authority care of young people and children. Those working within the fi

Recent Government policy has advocated universal support services for parents, including a national telephone helpline (for example, Department for Education and Skills, 2003). The Home Office funded just such a helpline—Parentline Plus—as part of the Supporting Families initiative. The efficiency and effectiveness of this service in supporting parents were evaluated through secondary analysis of call data, assessment of taped calls, and interviews with callers. The helpline offers anonymous non‐stigmatising support to a growing number of callers, and most callers interviewed valued highly the service they received. Many had significant support needs that were not met by other forms of service provision.

In the UK there is no Diet Quality Index (DQI) that enables estimates of diet quality to be made for children of different age groups. This paper discusses the methodological complexities of designing an appropriate DQI for children aged 10 years and under, using dietary data in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) in relation to UK dietary guidelines. Two stages of the process of developing this score are described. The final score was employed as an outcome measure in secondary analysis of the NDNS and as a means of sampling 48 case study children from the NDNS. This DQI, like all composite measures, produces a summary of overall dietary quality. This may mask individual components important for understanding the health impacts of children's diets. However, DQIs are methodologically advantageous over 'data driven' dietary pattern approaches because they are based on existing knowledge of optimal dietary patterns and provide clear nutritional benchmarks for comparing dietary quality for population sub-groups. Our innovative scoring system enables children's diets to be compared for different age groups relative to UK dietary guidelines and is appropriate for use in quantitative analysis and for assessing diet quality more qualitatively for small groups of children.

La investigación se inscribe en el marco de la evolución de dos lenguas en contraste: español y maya de Yucatán, y se centra en el fenómeno de la glotalización. Se analiza la producción de las oclusivas sordas /p t k/ en el español de Yucatán con el fin de comprobar si aparecen los fenómenos glóticos mayas. El corpus está formado por habla espontánea, listas de palabras mayas y españolas y textos orales leídos emitidos por 45 locutores (bilingües y monolingües español y/o maya) con un nivel de instrucción alto, medio alto o analfabetos. Para el análisis experimental se registraron diversos parámetros acústicos en el oscilograma y en el espectrograma; se utilizaron asimismo la laringografía, para registrar apertura y cierre de la glotis, calidad de la voz y duración de los ciclos glóticos, y la fibroscopía, que permite ver con precisión las estructuras laríngeas. El poner en contraste estos fenómenos fonéticos desconocidos en el español, y difíciles de identificar, muestra que, tal vez más que en otras ciencias, la representación de lo observable desempeña en fonética un papel decisivo.

Not enough is known in the UK about how economic phenomena and policy changes have impacted families' ability to feed themselves. This article employs a novel way of identifying the types of UK families at risk of food poverty over time. Applying a relative deprivation approach, it asks what counts in the UK as a socially acceptable diet that meets needs for health and social participation and how much this costs. Comparing this to actual food expenditure by different family types, between 2005 and 2013, it identifies which are spending less than expected and may be at risk of food poverty. The analysis finds the proportion has increased over time for most family types and for lone parents and large families in particular. The discussion considers findings in light of changing economic and policy contexts and the implications for policy responses of how food poverty is defined and measured.