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New websiteData.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. Structures for sustainability - Environmental management systems in the Victorian Government 2011 in DHS the environmental management system is driven from the Corporate Services area. This promotes connectedness across the high resource use divisions of Regional Disability Services Housing and Community Services, Youth Justice and Bushfire Recovery Services. The environmental management work of the Department of Health is also incorporated... This blending of departmental interests and aspirations is in the best traditions of attaining triple-bottom-line objectives and associated co-benefits, as it will reduce unnecessary replication of processes. Vic Commissioner Environmental Sustainability (Mar 2011) Fraud Control in Australian Government Entities The risk of fraud can come from inside an organisation, that is, from its employees or contractors, or from outside an organisation, that is, external parties such as clients, consultants, service providers or other members of the public. Aus Audit (Mar 2011) Impact of quality standards requirements - How much is compliance costing NGOs? survey being conducted by MSO NGO Services MSO (Mar 2011) UK Government ICT Strategy Resources will deliver better public services for less cost. Through reuse and sharing of our ICT assets, we will improve productivity and efficiency, reduce waste and the likelihood of project failure. ..The strategy will improve and open up public service delivery by supporting online transactional services for citizens and businesses, and create channels for collaboration and policy debate...To ensure that we continue to improve our ICT delivery, we will move away from very large programmes to a greater number of smaller and more agile projects UK Cabinet Office (Mar 2011) Families in regional, rural and remote Australia Australian children growing up in major cities do better in terms of their physical development and educational outcomes than children living in regional and remote areas media release AIFS (Mar 2011) Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources, 2011 contains Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) collections and non ABS collections which include government, academic and private sources. ABS (mar 2011) Community research on informed consent Australian consumers can find it difficult to provide what they consider to be fully informed consent when signing up to telecommunications contracts...examines consumer awareness and attitudes towards how personal information is used by third parties; consenting online; consenting over the phone and face to face; consent involving minors; and the length of time consent is valid for. Aus Communications and Media Authority (Mar 2011) The role of Local Resilience Forums ‘The purpose of the LRF process is to ensure effective delivery of those duties under the Act that need to be developed in a multi-agency environment [and individually as a Category 1 responder]. In particular the LRF process should deliver: the compilation of agreed risk profiles for the area... UK Home Office (Mar 2011) Making Quality Your Business: A guide to the right to provide sets out a process for people working in NHS Trusts who have the right to propose the development of a staff-led enterprise... also encourages staff working in social care who are thinking about the right to provide, UK Health (Mar 2011) Hospital payment policy in Canada: Options for the future recommends adopting population-based funding at the regional level to reduce historical funding inequities by recognizing differences in need across populations, regions and over time...blending Activity Based Funding and global budgets to create incentives for hospitals to improve hospital efficiency and access. also Physician payment mechanisms: overview and options for Canada Can CHRF (Mar 2011) | |
Targeting More Elective Operations Improved Access to Elective Surgery New Zealand case studies: The volume of elective surgery will be increased by an average 4000 discharges per year (compared with the previous average increase of 1400 per year). NZ health (Mar 2011) Rapid Impact Assessment of The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care™ focuses on improving ward processes and environments to help nurses and therapists spend more time on patient care thereby improving safety and efficiency. UK NHS (Mar 2011) The Ignored Majority - The Voice of Arthritis 2011 estimates there are two million six hundred thousand (2.6 million) Australians with inadequate care, who are needlessly suffering pain, have difficulty getting about and are being disadvantaged at work. Arthritis Aus (Mar 2011) Fast Food –Display of Nutrition Information and Traffic Light Labelling discusses two measures being considered by Australian governments to help reduce Australians’ intake of sugar, salt and fat from fast food – the display of nutrition information (such as kilojoule counts and detail about the levels of salt, sugar and fat in the food) on fast food menu boards and traffic light labelling of fast food. Qld Parliamentary Library (Mar 2011) UK Food Standards Agency's Strategy to 2015 aims to ensure regulation is effective, risk-based and proportionate, is clear about the responsibilities of food business operators, and protects consumers and their interests from fraud and other risks UK FSA (Mar 2011) NHS at home: children's community nursing services review of the contribution community children's nursing services, as a key component of community children's services, can make to the future outcomes of integrated children's services...children with acute and short-term conditions; long-term conditions; with disabilities and complex conditions, including those requiring continuing care and neonates; and children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness, including those requiring palliative and end-of-life care UK Health (Mar 2011) Needle and Syringe Program General Practice Education and Training General Practice Education and Training Limited (GPET) is a relatively small public sector organisation in terms of expenditure and staffing, with expenditure of $106.7 million and an average staffing level of 35 people in 2009–10. However, its responsibility for managing the delivery of general practice training and education across Australia is of growing significance. Aus Audit (Mar 2011) Patients' experiences of the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) breaks new ground in accessing and communicating patients’ direct views on the tribunal system... It is both possible and worthwhile collecting user feedback from detained patients about tribunals. UK CQC (Mar 2011) Impact of economic crises on mental health Family support programmes contribute to counteracting the mental health effects of the crisis. Increasing alcohol prices and restricting alcohol availability reduce the harmful effects on mental health and save lives. WHO Europe (Mar 2011) Burden of disease from environmental noise. Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe At least one million healthy life years are lost every year from traffic-related noise in the western part of Europe...International, national and local authorities can use the procedure for estimating burdens presented here to prioritize and plan environmental and public health policies. WHO Europe (Mar 2011) Treatment service users (TSU) project: phase two This project implemented consumer participation demonstration projects in a variety of drug treatment settings in Australia. Aus health (Mar 2011) The Early Years: Foundations for life, health and learning report to UK Parliament by Dame Clare Tickell...Keeping children safe ... A professional, well-supported workforce. also Europe: Early Childhood Education and Care: Providing All Our Children with the Best Start for the World of Tomorrow UK Education (Mar 2011) | |
Social Work Assessment of Children in Need: What do we know? Messages from research gaining a better understanding of the relationship between the quality of assessments and outcomes for children in contact with children’s social care services...identifies the increasing range of knowledge and skills needed when undertaking assessments, and highlights factors that contribute to or inhibit effective practice and the production of high quality assessments. UK Education (Mar 2011) UK Family justice review: interim report In a significant number of these cases, serious child welfare and safeguarding concerns are raised, to a level that may well trigger investigation by local authorities...There is an almost unbelievable lack of management information at a system-wide level, with little data on performance, flows, costs or efficiency available to support the operation of the system. UK Justice (mar 2011) Keeping Children Safe: Information disclosure about child sexual offenders The vast majority of sex offenders are known to the victim and often they are an acquaintance or family member. In 86% of child protection referrals, where action was required, the primary known or suspected abuser was the child’s natural parent. In only 1% of cases was the abuser unknown to the child or their family. Scotland (Mar 2011) Clinical Report The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and families it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. US Pediatrics (Mar 2011) Guardianship: consultation paper describes how Victoria's guardianship and administration laws currently operate, outlines problems with the current laws, discusses laws in other jurisdictions, and outlines options for reform...These laws deal with the formal arrangements that are available when a person is unable to make their own decisions about important matters because of a disability. Vic LRC (Mar 2011) Assessing the impact of receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) seeks to identify any impact of receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) on recipients’ care and mobility arrangements, their standard of living and measures of social inclusion/exclusion ...also focuses on whether the approach to estimating impact is robust and how it may be improved UK DWP (Mar 2011) AVERT Family Violence training package has been developed to provide a multi-disciplinary training package in family violence that encourages collaboration between professionals who are working in the family law system. AVERT (Mar 2011) One Size Does Not Fit All Gap analysis of NSW domestic violence support services in relation to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities’ needs Executive Summary and Recommendations more and more NSW ACON (Mar 2011) Methodological Review of Counting the Homeless, 2006 proposes a consistent methodology download paper ABS (Apr 2011) Reverse mortgages and older people: growth factors and implications for retirement decisions Reverse mortgages can provide a viable option for older and often, more vulnerable Australians, to age in place...The biggest issue currently facing consumers is the imbalance of information in the market for reverse mortgage products. AHURI (Mar 2011) Invest in housing, invest in health the contribution housing associations can make to the health agenda... demonstrates: the cost savings that projects carried out in partnership with housing associations can make to the NHS, how services improve the health outcomes for individuals and communities, how services reduce health inequalities in deprived areas and cuts the costs of acute services. UK Housing Federation (Mar 2011) Loneliness compendium: Examples from research and practice 'Neighbourhood Approaches to Loneliness' program looks at how a neighbourhood as a whole can support those who live with loneliness. UK Joseph Rowntree (Mar 2011) |
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