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Government transparency: six strategies for more open and participatory government examines how and why government at every level, particularly at the local level, should embrace emerging ICT technologies and Web 2.0 and 3.0 tools (e.g., social media and collaboration) to enhance their openness and engage citizens more fully. US Knight Commission (Feb 2011) The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study Year One Report: Baseline Findings found that the third sector has a unique and distinctive contribution to make to service delivery. TSOs tend to work with vulnerable, disadvantaged and hard-to-reach groups, engaging in preventative work and filling gaps in statutory services...New third sector "interfaces" in each Community Planning area across Scotland are being developed and will become the key mechanism by which the third sector interfaces with the government. Scotland (Mar 2011) Ethnic diversity and inequality: ethical and scientific rigour in social research addresses the increasing need for research to inform policy and practice development that is sensitive to the diversity of the UK's multiethnic population. UK Joseph Rowntree (Mar 2011) Predictive risk and health care: an overview These tools use relationships in historic, routinely collected electronic health data to determine the expected future health care resource use of each individual in a population. The tools can be used to estimate future events for people at different levels of risk, providing commissioners with more accurate estimates of likely future costs. UK Nuffield (mar 2011) Myth: The aging population is to blame for uncontrollable healthcare costs While the impact of the aging population alone won’t bankrupt the healthcare system, there is still a need to get age-specific cost increases under control, especially those related to death and dying. The good news is that problems expected to arise from population aging can be managed with smart changes to care delivery for the elderly. It’s the other issues—such as the growing cost of healthcare services and the increased costs arising from technological innovation—that are causing expenditures to escalate. These are the cost drivers that require our foremost attention. Can CHSRF (Feb 2010) Peer-to-peer Healthcare Many Americans turn to friends and family for support and advice when they have a health problem. This report shows how people’s networks are expanding to include online peers, particularly in the crucible of rare disease...The oft-expressed fear that patients are using the internet to self-diagnose and self-medicate without reference to medical professionals does not emerge in national phone surveys or in this special rare-disease community survey. US Pew (Mar 2011) A shared agenda in the new world: GP consortia and public health ways in which GP consortia and public health professionals will contribute to: Improving health, preventing ill health and reducing health inequalities... UK NHS (Jan 2011) We are Targeting Better Health Services brochure summarising NZ Health's progress on a range of health care targets. NZ Health (Mar 2011) Refugee Health Plan 2011-2016 seeks to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality services to refugees through both refugee-specific health services and through accessible, culturally and linguistically competent mainstream health services. NSW Health (Feb 2011) Managing Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Services The state allocated $135.7 million for AOD prevention and treatment activities in 2010–11, with 81 per cent of program funding allocated to treatment...The audit found that the Department of Health has no assurance that the service system objectives, of effective case management and continuity of care for clients, and consistent, high quality services, are being achieved Vic Audit (Mar 2011) | |
Food and You 2010 reveals information about people’s behaviour and attitudes towards food issues such as food safety and healthy eating, and their knowledge of these issues...this wide-ranging survey involved more than 3,000 face-to-face interviews with randomly selected adults across the UK between March and August 2010. UK FSA (Mar 2011) Positive Practice, Positive Outcomes: A handbook for professionals in the criminal justice system working with offenders with a learning disability information, practical advice, sign-posting and best pra ctice examples for criminal justice professionals working with offenders with learning disabilities and learning difficulties. UK Health (Mar 2011) Joining the dots: A better start for Scotland's children though there is a broad basis of agreement around the importance of children’s Early Years and the direction of travel of national policy, drill a little deeper and there is a range of different – and often competing - views, perspectives and priorities – even different ‘languages’ across many of the different stakeholders... Scotland (Mar 2011) Aspects of Disability and Health in Australia, 2007-2008 Disability statistics define disability and explain how a high proportion of disabilities relate to long-term health conditions. In contrast, health statistics measure the health status of the population, health related aspects of lifestyle, other health risk factors and the use of health services or other actions people had recently taken for their health. This article draws the two concepts together ABS (Mar 2010) Assault of a Disability Services Client by Department of Human Services Staff Report tabled in Parliament 3 March 2011. Vic Ombudsman (Mar 2011) Standards in action: Practice requirements and guidelines for services funded under the Disability Services Act a practical tool that helps providers understand the ways in which they can meet the NSW Disability Services Standards and the NSW Disability Services Act 1993. NSW DADHC (Feb 2011) Disability Care and Support: Draft report identifies the current disability support system as underfunded, unfair, fragmented, and inefficient. It gives people with a disability little choice and no certainty that they will get the support they need.The Commission is proposing two schemes to address the flaws, with a rollout to commence in 2013-14. Aus Productivity Comm (Feb 2011) Report of the National Review of Services for Disabled Children a broad strategic review of all aspects of services for disabled children. Scotland (Mar 2011) Foundation Degree Framework for Working Together for Young People A good practice framework for qualifications for working together for young people UK CWDC (Mar 2011) | |
Children's Workforce Development Council improves support for fostering social workers provides greater consistency across services and improve support for UK foster carers and their supervisors. UK CWDC (Mar 2011) Keeping The Promise: The Critical Need for Post-Adoption Services to Enable Children and Families to Succeed recommends that "the paradigm has to shift" from simply forming families to providing the supports needed to raise children to healthy adulthood. more US Adoption Institute (2010) Outstanding children’s homes analyses how a small sample of 12 children’s homes achieved and sustained outstanding status over a period of three years. It draws on the views of managers, staff and young people about what makes these homes outstanding and the key features which have contributed to their success. UK Ofsted (Mar 2011) Young people on remand in Victoria: Guilt not yet determined, balancing individual and community interests highlights the accumulated disadvantage of young people involved in the criminal justice system, including high rates of unemployment and low levels of educational attainment... concludes with recommendations for remand reform that promote social inclusion and community safety, and the health and well-being of disadvantaged young people, Vic Jesuit Social services (Feb 2011) No Fixed Abode: the accommodation struggle for young people leaving custody in England despite ten years of significant investment in the youth justice system, the resettlement of young people when they leave custody remains an intractable problem. UK Barnados (Feb 2011) Review of the Complaints System in the Secure Estate for Children and Young People The routine use of full searches will stop across the secure estate, there will be a review of the criteria used to separate young people in custody to manage problems that arise, complaints will be handled more fairly and effectively and work will be undertaken with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Samaritans to improve the young people’s access to helpline services. more UK Youth Justice Board (Mar 2011) What Works for Promoting and Enhancing Positive Social Skills: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions, also What Works for Acting-Out (Externalizing) Behavior US Child trends (Mar 2011) The drivers of housing supply and demand in rural and regional centres processes that appear insignificant in metropolitan housing markets exert a major influence in some regional housing markets and this includes the impact of scale, geography, spatial differentiation, localism and the presence of an Indigenous population. AHURI (Mar 2010) A scenario analysis of the future residential requirements for people with mental health problems in Eindhoven (Holland) working with scenarios provides policymakers of healthcare providers, public housing corporations, and local government with concrete guidelines for creating a shared vision of developments concerning a specific issue (in this study, the issue of types of residence for people with mental health problems), and with tools for understanding their implications for future strategy plans. BMC (Mar 2011) Code of practice relating to surveillance cameras UK consultation seeks views on the content of a new code of practice on the use of closed circuit television (CCTV) systems and other similar surveillance camera systems. UK Home Office (Mar 2011) |
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