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Beyond the Blunt Instrument: the Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives The Efficiency Dividend is an easy way for Governments to hide overspending and bring Budgets back into surplus. However, this short-term electoral advantage occurs at the expense of essential public services which improve our individual and community well-being over the longer term. There are better ways to promote efficiency within the public service which don’t compromise the role of public sector agencies or risk reducing the quality of service delivery Aus Centre for Policy development (Dec 2010) Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2010 aims to bring together information about the costs of health and social care in a way that, as far as possible, is transparent and compatible. It aims to identify, as closely as possible the economic cost (long run marginal opportunity cost), by drawing on research and occasional specific analyses. UK PSSRU (Dec 2010) Measuring social value: how five social enterprises did it There is a growing body of evidence about the social returns that social enterprises can bring to local communities. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is a framework for measuring these social returns. It explores a wider sense of value than is sometimes captured in contracts, prices or investments. UK Health (Dec 2010) Review of the Office of the Children's Commissioner (England) looks at the Commissioner’s powers, remit and functions, value for money, and the relationship with other Government funded organisations carrying out related functions...recommends a strengthened remit to promote and protect children’s rights includes International Evidence Review UK Education (Dec 2010) Systematic review of the links between human resource management practices and performance The UK NHS is the largest employer in Europe, involving complex and diverse services and work roles....there is little evidence to show whether similar HRM practices have the same effects in health and non-health settings. An implication of this finding is that care needs to be taken when adopting HRM practices from without the NHS – it cannot be assumed that the same practices are appropriate in both settings or that the same effects will accrue. UK HTA (Nov 2010) Many Missing Pieces: The Difficult Task of Linking Early Childhood Data and School-Based Data Systems urges states to take steps to gather and integrate information from early childhood programs, including Head Start, childcare, and a fuller range of social services....Putting relevant and longitudinal information in the hands of stakeholders – researchers, policymakers, school district officials, principals, teachers, and parents – would help to ensure that programs and districts are equipped to address the needs of children and families. US NAF (Oct 2010) A wiki for social workers in a local health authority: An actor-network analysis and seed design While there was a strong sense that replacing the intranet-based Knowledge Management System with a wiki was both valuable and feasible, the global network within which any local network of social workers and information technology might be situated remained largely unchanged. Italy Università Bocconi (Nov 2010) Bupa Health Pulse 2010 international healthcare survey. Over 12,000 people across 12 different countries were surveyed to find out their attitudes and perceptions towards ageing, chronic diseases and health and wellbeing... across the world people continue to lead unhealthy lifestyles despite fear of chronic disease. Australian key findings Almost three quarters of Australians (73%) are worried about developing a chronic disease. BUPA International Health (Dec 2010) Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2010 Topics covered in the report include how patient experience can improve the safety and quality of health care, clinical deterioration, antibiotic resistance, clinical handover, medication safety and accreditation. Aus ACSQHC (Dec 2010) Falls prevention: past, present and future conference presentations ANZ Falls Prevention Society (Nov 2010) Aged care packages in the community 2008-09: a statistical overview and Residential aged care in Australia 2008-09 Spending on aged care services in 2008-09 was $10.1 billion... an estimated $6.6 billion (of the $10.1 billion) was spent on residential aged care, with the Australian Government the dominant funder (estimated $6.5 billion). AIHW (Nov 2010) National Mental Health Report 2010 provides a fifteen year view of trends and performance at the national and state and territory levels...Mental health accounted for 7.0 per cent of total expenditure on health care and 7.5 per cent of government health spending in 2007-08. related: National survey reveals 45.1 million adults in the U.S. experienced mental illness in the past year nearly 1 in 5 people suffering from mental illness also have a substance use disorder Aus Health (Dec 2010) Inpatient and Community Mental Health Service Checklists have been developed from information provided by parents with a mental illness, their partners, support people and children as well as service providers...Check how family-friendly your inpatient or community mental health services are Aus COPMI (Dec 2010) The Pursuing Perfection Initiative: Lessons on Transforming Health Care (free registration required) Thirteen health care organizations from the US and Europe designed, tested, and implemented changes in strategy, structure, and key processes US IHI (Nov 2010) Becoming the Best: Alberta’s 5-year Health Action Plan outlines five key strategies to drive improvements in the health system. •Getting quicker access to surgeries and cancer treatment; •Making more continuing care options available to seniors; •Moving people in and out of emergency departments faster; •Providing better access to family physicians and other health providers; and •Getting Albertans healthier. 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Social care and hospital use at the end of life the use and estimated costs of hospital and social care services for large groups of individuals at the end of their lives...around a third of people access some local authority funded social care in the last year of life. This could range from meals on wheels to nursing home care...hospital inpatient costs tend to be lower in the oldest age groups and for people with the highest social care UK Nuffield (Dec 2010) Palliative Care Funding Review interim report Lack of 24/7 access to care is a major barrier to delivering the most effective, efficient services UK The Review (Dec 2010) General practice activity in Australia 2009-10 also General practice activity in Australia 2000-01 to 2009-10: 10 year data tables AIHW (Dec 2010) National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia 2010 introduces the concept of advanced practice to the profession. Aus PSA (Dec 2010) UK Home Office: Drug strategy 2010 'Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life...puts more responsibility on individuals to seek help and overcome dependency UK Home Office (Dec 2010) Out of harm’s way: Injecting drug users and harm reduction highlighting the failures of governments and donors to effectively tackle HIV and injecting drug use, and the urgency with which a human-rights based, effective response is needed. A central message of the report is the importance of prioritising harm reduction over the criminalisation of drug use – because “it works and is a human-rights based approach”. Int Red Cross (Dec 2010) Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Phase I Report Nutrition rating systems and symbols on the fronts of food packaging would be most useful to shoppers if they highlighted four nutrients of greatest concern – calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium . download PDF (free registration required) US NAP (Oct 2010) The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care: Workshop Summary a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. US NAP (Oct 2010) Learn or Earn Discussion Paper: Implications for young people in-care and post-care seeking submissions about how to collaboratively progress discussions and address the issues raised in the paper, at a national and state or territory level within and across key sectors...strategies for improving education and employment outcomes for young people in-care and post-care. Aus Create (Nov 2010) Breaking the Cycle Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders UK Green Paper on reforms to criminal justice...will test how payment-by-results can be introduced for youth justice to incentivise local areas to reduce youth offending...Providers will be paid to reduce reoffending, funded in the long run by the savings to the taxpayer that this new approach is expected to generate. Youth Justice UK Justice (Dec 2010) The youth justice system in England and Wales: Reducing offending by young people recent improvements to the youth justice system have contributed to reductions in recorded youth crime. However, despite a 25 per cent reduction in the volumes of reoffending, young offenders who receive more serious community sentences or custodial sentences remain as likely to offend again as they were ten years ago when the youth justice system was brought in. UK Audit (Dec 2010) Bimberi Youth Justice Centre Review Project - Supporting Systems for the Rehabilitation of Young People The focus of the review will be the enhanced development of practices and policy in Bimberi and maximizing the contribution to rehabilitation outcomes for young residents, and promoting a positive work environment for staff. ACT DHCS (Dec 2010) Multi-State Study on Psychotropic Medication Oversight in Foster Care. aimed to identify which US states had policies or written guidelines regarding psychotropic medication oversight for youth in foster care; better understand the challenges states had encountered as they sought to address medication oversight, and determine what types of solutions states had implemented or were planning to implement. more US Tufts (Sep 2010) Under-age Sexual Activity: Meeting the Needs of Children and Young People and Identifying Child Protection Concerns When anyone working with children and young people becomes aware of situations where under-age sexual activity has taken place, they have a duty to consider the impact that this has had on them and whether this behaviour is indicative of a wider child protection concern. more Scotland (Dec 2010) Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children summarises the results of a small-scale study into the online interactions of suspected paedophiles with undercover Australian police officers posing as male children. 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Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records : Summary of State Laws Most US jurisdictions permit certain persons access to registry and department records. In general, these people have a direct interest in a case, in the child's welfare, or in providing protective or treatment services. Many statutes specifically describe who may access the records and under what circumstances. Typically, persons entitled to access are physicians; researchers; police; judges and other court personnel; the person who is the subject of a report; a person who was an alleged child victim; and the parent, guardian, or guardian ad litem of an alleged victim who is a minor. US CWIG (2010) Insights into sexual assault perpetration: Giving voice to victim/survivors' knowledge uses the accounts of victim/survivors to provide further insight into the behaviours, strategies and tactics of sexual offenders. AIFS (Dec 2010) Integrated responses to domestic violence: Legally mandated intervention programs for male perpetrators While the outcome data reported here are promising, further evaluation is required to establish a more accurate assessment of the value of intervention programs for male perpetrators in reducing rates of domestic violence Aus AIC (Dec 2010) Investigation into access to electronic media for the hearing and vision-impaired 22 recommendations to improve audio description and caption levels in Australia on free-to-air and subscription television, film in cinemas, DVDs and audiovisual content on the internet. Aus DBCDE (Dec 2010) Current themes in autism research: November 2010 research updates Aus AS (Nov 2010) Australia’s changing patterns of home ownership Two key groups experienced large falls in ownership—middle-upper income 25–44-year olds and low income 45–64-year olds. By contrast, home ownership rates improved for singles, single parents, defacto couples, and those living in remote areas. AHURI (Dec 2010) Young people and children in social housing Young people under 25 comprised nearly 40% of all people living in government-managed housing in 2008–09 AIHW (Dec 2010) Increasing supply within the social rented sector a brief overview of the principles and practice of funding for new social housing over the last decade UK Joseph Rowntree (Dec 2010) Indigenous Home Ownership discussion paper describes the actions the Queensland Government is taking to enable home ownership on Indigenous communal lands Qld Housing (Dec 2010) Financial benefits of investment in specialist housing for vulnerable and older people find that investment in specialist housing results in a net benefit for all client groups except those groups relating to young people...The largest single benefit is estimated for the older people client group. There are also significant positive benefits for people with mental health problems and people with learning difficulties. UK Frontier Economics (Oct 2010) Breaking the mould: literature review explores the development of housing and services for older people more UK Housing fed (Dec 2010) Provision of Commonwealth Rent Assistance to Residents of Non-Standard Forms of Accommodation for Older People study of the circumstances of residents of certain forms of specialist, non-standard accommodation targeted at older people. These housing forms comprise retirement villages, manufactured home parks (MHPs) and residential caravan parks. NSW SPRC (Nov 2010) Value for money and tenant involvement there is a strong business case for involving tenants in the provision and management of their homes. ... providers are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of using tenants’ views to shape services and achieve organisational business objectives aimed at delivering better, more responsive, services. UK Housemark (Nov 2010) Long way home? The plight of African refugees obtaining decent housing in Western Sydney. African refugees in Western Sydney face significant housing insecurity years after arriving in Australia and are trapped in welfare dependency. NSW Anglicare (Nov 2010) Meeting the Needs of Australian Muslim Families: Exploring Marginalisation, Family Issues and ‘Best Practice’ in Service Provision While no ‘best practice’ model emerged from the findings and the literature review, a number of critical practice elements were identified Aus Immigration (2010) |
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