"It's everyone's job to make sure I'm alright"
Report of the Child Protection Audit and Review
Footnotes
1. The statistics and information presented in this chapter come from the following sources: General Register Office Scotland; Scottish Executive; Scottish Children's Reporter Administration; ChildLine Scotland; Information and Statistics Division Scotland; Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health; Scottish Women's Aid; Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow.
2. 60% of the median income thresholds in Scotland (after housing costs have been accounted for).
3. In general, child protection procedures apply to children of 16 years and under. However, in the case of children with disabilities and looked after children they are extended to include 17 and 18 year olds.
4. The Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys' classification system.
5. The Statistics in this section come from Information and Statistics Division Scotland and the Scottish Executive.
6. These are sometimes described in the comparative social policy literature as 'Anglo-Saxon'
7. See also Parton 1991; Pringle 1998. West European continental welfare states are sometimes divided into two: the Scandinavian (social democratic) and Bismarckian (corporatist)
8. See e.g. Channer and Parton, 1990, Phillips 1995, O'Hagan 2001 for further discussion of these issues
9. This term was new to Britain in the late 1980s
10. Seen also in the concept of 'simple adoption', whereby adopted children maintain some of their links with the birth family
11. See e.g. Eldridge 2000; Bolen et al 2000