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Labelling is the product of imposing one's perceptions on the comparatively powerless, and it damages those who label as well as those to whom labels are attached. This chapter concentrates on the latter, although it does contain messages and advice for those who label. While damage is rarely intentional, it is substantial and inevitable and can be avoided with the application of little more than common sense, professional awareness and human decency. We know that statistical trends are not statements of absolute truths, yet many teachers and senior staff make decisions based on just that misapprehension – whether with regard to ethnicity, gender, age, [dis]ability and other socially constructed categories – and can even be influenced by such non-educational trivia as surnames and post codes. The statistics do not lie, they simply tell us exactly what they tell us and that is almost nothing about any particular school student. Labelling is easy; we all do it in various contexts, and it is immensely damaging. This chapter explains how and why that is the case, and offers an alternative approach.

All school staff (teaching and support) now have a duty and obligation to protect and safeguard children in their care. To be able to do this, school staff need to understand what safeguarding is and how to respond, but also need to understand a number of other concepts such as: why children end up in vulnerable situation in the first place, how teaching practices reduce vulnerability, and how to engage with children and young people in an effective and efficient manner. This chapter explores these latter types of concerns and in doing so identifies that teachers and support staff are key professionals in identifying vulnerability, preventing the escalation of concerns, engaging with children and supporting them and their education over time as they engage with and attend school. This chapter also contains a detailed breakdown of the structure and the content of this edited collection and concludes with reflective comments about the implications of this collection for you as an individual and in your career: working with children and young people in educational establishments.

LIBRARY activity has been very great since the year opened. On all sides librarians report issues which are greatly in excess of any previously reached. This has been interpreted by ourselves and by others as a reflex of the general unemployment. It is also due no doubt to the lack of pence on the part of many people for amusements, who find that reading is a cheap form of diversion. There can be no cause for anything but satisfaction in the fact that in such unhappy times our people turn to books. It is a hopeful sign, for the nation that reads gathers a resilience and buoyancy which can be got from few other activities.

The distribution of freight in most urban areas is characterised by high concentrations of truck activity in central business districts (CBD's). In this context, the movement of freight from suppliers, to resellers to ultimate customers is typically performed by a very large number of small carriers who duplicate each other's paths with partially filled trucks while each is in the process of picking up and delivering a large number of very small shipments. In many communities, this distribution structure results in unnecessarily high levels of congestion, pollution and energy consumption, as well as high distribution costs which are passed on to consumers in higher product costs. Several decades ago, business organisations responded to these pressures and initiated shippers' associations and freight forwarder operations to achieve the economies of consolidated shipments. Since 1942, however, the growth in the number of freight forwarders has been drastically curtailed.

In an article, explanatory of the System of Permanent Analytical Control and of the methods of working, the Daily Mail has observed :—

Examines how the collision of neo‐liberalism and regionally specific social forces have created a specific manifestation of community based policing. The merger of neo‐liberalism and community policing has taken place under common conditions of downsizing, fiscal downloading and organizational restructuring. These conditions have not, however, led to a consistency of application. The political, economic and social variables differ across regions, as do the stimuli for reform and the manner in which community policing has been implemented. As a result, each region has uniquely articulated the neo‐liberal tenet of community involvement in community based policing. This range of reform initiatives is examined first from the perspective of broad RCMP organizational shifts and then within the context of Alberta (K‐Division).

Current issues of Publishers' Weekly are reporting serious shortages of paper, binders board, cloth, and other essential book manufacturing materials. Let us assure you these shortages are very real and quite severe.