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Impacts and Benefits of COAG Reforms: Reporting Framework The Productivity Commission has been given the role of reporting to COAG periodically on the economic 'impacts and benefits' of the reforms. It was asked to prepare initially a framework report which would set out how it proposes to go about this task. Includes Catalogue of COAG Reforms and Initiatives Productivity Comm (Jan 2011) Statistics: Natural disasters in 2010 Unless we act now, we will see more and more disasters due to unplanned urbanization and environmental degradation. And weather-related disasters are sure to rise in the future, due to factors that include climate change...It’s critical for local governments, city leaders and their partners to incorporate climate change adaptation in urban planning UN (Jan 2011) Tomorrow’s People? A guide for overview and scrutiny committees about involving young people in scrutiny constructive and ongoing involvement of young people in scrutiny helps to achieve genuine accountability for the use scrutiny of public resources. UK CFPS (Jan 2011) Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Technology in 2030 developments in IVF, screening, gay parents, cloning US Brookings (Jan 2011) Consumer Education Initiatives in Financial and Health Literacy focuses on financial and/or health literacy initiatives for low-income or underserved consumers. US HHS (Dec 2010) Data Assurance Framework : Improving data quality Since the start of the Payment by Results (PbR) programme in the NHS, average clinical coding errors at trusts have decreased by 5 per cent from 16 to 11 per cent. The programme has identified about £9m of financial errors because of this incorrect data. UK Audit (Jan 2011) Remote control, the patient-practitioner relationship in a digital age the over-reliance on treatment delivered through face-to-face contact means the NHS risks being stuck in the technological dark ages...Despite the huge funding pressures, NHS organisations should continue to make the case for new technologies as they will form the backbone for how we access many public services in the future UK NHS (Jan 2011) Large number of A&E visits require no actual treatment A large number of visits to NHS accident and emergency departments in England end with the patient just needing advice and no actual treatment UK NHS (Jan 2011) | |
Support. Stay. Save. Care and support of people with dementia in their own homes a UK survey suggests substandard care will result in 50,000 people being forced into care homes early. For each avoidable month these people spend in care, the state will face a bill of at least £70 million. Tens of thousands more will be admitted to hospital unnecessarily. UK Alzheimers (Jan 2011) Bereavement care services: a synthesis of the literature and Spiritual care at the end of life: a systematic review of the literature UK Health (Jan 2011) Community Care Common Standards Guide developed jointly by the Australian Government and State and Territory Governments as part of broader community care reforms to develop common arrangements that help to simplify and streamline the way community care is delivered. Aus Health (Jan 2011) Caring For Older Australians: Draft report identifies a number of weaknesses in the aged care system. While over one million older people receive aged care services, the system is difficult to navigate, there are gaps in service coverage, user charges are inconsistent and inequitable, and the workforce is under pressure. Productivity Comm (Jan 2011) Child protection Australia 2009-2010 in the last 12 months the number of children subject to a substantiation of a notification across Australia decreased by 4%, to around 31,300 children. This decrease confirms a trend that has been emerging over the last few years. AIHW (Jan 2011) Educational outcomes of children on guardianship or custody orders: a pilot study, Stage 2 A considerable number of children in the care of the state are not meeting the national benchmarks for literacy and numeracy AIHW (Jan 2011) Financial and Non-Financial Support to Formal and Informal Out of Home Carers an inventory of financial and non-financial support for formal and informal carers (based on information provided by the Commonwealth and each of the states and territories); descriptions of the barriers to the caring role; a review of existing qualitative research on carers’ experiences of supports and services; service gaps and inequities; and examples of good practice in OOHC. SPRC (Jan 2011) | |
Child Welfare Hearings: A Scoping Study of the Commissioning, Preparation and Use of Bar Reports There are no formal practice notes that govern the commissioning, preparation and submission of reports. In the majority of reports, the views of the child are sought and are set out in the report. Scotland (Jan 2011) Young Motherhood and Child Outcomes There are clearly strong associations between being born to a young mother and having poor outcomes as both a young child and a young adult. .... The poorer outcomes may be due to family background characteristics that influence both fertility patterns and the outcomes of children. SPRC (Jan 2011) Agenda for Children and Young People outlines proposed new policy directions across a wide range of areas affecting children and young people in Tasmania. The paper suggests new ways of working to ensure that services for children and young people are delivered in a more integrated way. Tas Premier (Jan 2011) Non-disclosure of violence in Australian Indigenous communities examines reasons for non-disclosure in the broader Australian community before discussing how factors specific to Indigenous Australians influence individual decisions to disclose violence. AIC (Jan 2011) Refugees and Communication Technology Workshop to identify actions that will support refugees and asylum seekers use communication technologies in displacement settings and during resettlement in Australia NSW UT (Jan 2011) Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: A Growing Phenomenon with Few Easy Solutions Young migrants are more vulnerable than adult migrants and are less likely to be seen, at least in the long term, as potentially productive members of society by host countries. US MIS (Jan 2010) Community housing 2009-10 At 30 June 2010 there were 959 mainstream community housing organisations that managed nearly 46,000 dwellings funded under the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) and associated National Partnership Agreements. also Public rental housing 2009-10 and State owned and managed Indigenous housing 2009-10 AIHW (Jan 2011) Stakeholder views of the regulation of affordable housing providers in Australia contributes to discussions in government and among not-for-profit housing providers about the way regulation can assist their efforts to increase the supply of affordable rental housing in Australia. Most organisations (88%) manage less than 50 dwellings each, whilst just over 5% manage 200 or more dwellings AHURI (Jan 2011) |
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