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Capital Trading presentation to GEC. Coated‐steel stockholder Capital Trading Ltd has, in conjunction with British Steel Corporation, recently made a presentation to companies within the GEC group on the benefits and applications of coated steels.

What is maintenance? Almost every maintenance engineer in the country is interested in corrosion—but there are many thousands of them and almost as many ways of thinking about the subject. The reason for this lies principally in the fact that whereas all corrosion is a maintenance problem, not all maintenance problems are concerned with corrosion, and the attitude adopted will vary according to the relative importance of corrosion and the engineer's many other maintenance responsibilities.

“Metal Spraying. The Origin, Development, and Applications of the Metal‐Spray Process.”. By T. Henry Turner and N. F. Budgen. [Charles Griffin & Co., London, 1926.] [This book was referred to in a letter to the Editor printed on page 15 of our January issue. Although it was published nearly four years ago, in view of the present interest in the subject we think it not too late to bring it to the notice of our readers.—EDITOR.]

In this first of eight articles we investigate the early techniques that were used to prevent corrosion using tin.

The growing need for cellularisation presents the facilities manager with an array of partitioning options that can be daunting. Patrick Manwell, of Phippen, Randall and Parkes, looks at proprietary products available and at the principles that underpin their construction.

Steel Protection Symposium. On April 18, at Birmingham University, the Zinc Development Association will hold a one‐day symposium on the protection of structural steel. Major attention will be given to the properties and uses of hot galvanized steel. Papers will deal with the design and fabrication, including welding, of galvanized steel for open structures, for building, for power transmission and other applications. One paper will cover metal spraying, with special reference to the protection of large structures including the new Forth Road Bridge, and some attention will be given to other protective systems. A paper on the economic aspects of protection and maintenance will also be discussed. Registration costs 30s. and enquiries should go to the Z.D.A., 34 Berkeley Square, London, W.1.

This chapter draws on data from a qualitative study examining the extent to which children and young people age 7 to 17 are able to participate and influence matters affecting them in their home, school, and community. It was commissioned by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in Ireland to inform the National Strategy on Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-Making, 2015–2020. Utilising Lundy’s (2007) conceptualisation of Article 12 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Leonard’s (2016) concept of generagency, this chapter will examine children and young people’s everyday lives and relationships within the home and family in the context of agency and structure.

In the study, home was experienced by children generally as the setting most facilitative of their voice and participation in their everyday lives reflecting research findings that children are more likely to have their initiative and ideas encouraged in the family than in school or their wider communities (Mayall, 1994). Key areas of decision-making included everyday consumption activities such as food, clothes, and pocket money as well as temporal activities including bed-time, leisure, and friends. This concurs with Bjerke (2011) that consumption of various forms is a major field of children’s participation. Positive experiences of participation reported by children and young people involved facilitation by adults whom they respected and with whom they had some rapport. This locates children as relational beings, embedded in multiple overlapping intergenerational processes and highlights the interdependency between children’s participation and their environment (Leonard, 2016; Percy-Smith & Thomas, 2010).