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Selected AbstractsDisabled children (0,3 years) and integrated services , the impact of Early SupportHEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 3 2008Alys Young PhD MSc BA(Hons) CQSW Abstract Early Support (ES) is the flagship government programme aimed at improving multi-agency working with, and supporting enhanced outcomes for, children with a disability 0,3 years and their families. This paper draws on results from the recently completed Department for Education and Skills commissioned national evaluation of ES involving 46 pathfinder projects throughout England. Data were collected by survey at two points in time (9 months apart), by focus groups with service providers and parents, and through secondary data analyses, including exploratory economic evaluation. This paper outlines some of the key findings pertaining to the relationship between integrated children's services and the impact of ES. As such, we address three concerns: what the evidence from ES can tell us about the relationships between universal and targeted provision within integrated children's service structures, the relationship between specific short-term initiatives and their longer-term sustainability within integrated children's services structures and the potential costs and benefits of ES looking forward to its implementation on a national basis within an integrated children's services environment. Although focused primarily on children with a disability in the early years, implications will be drawn for the implementation of Lead Professional Guidance and the Common Assessment Framework more generically. [source] Bringing Back Community: Family Support From the Bottom UpCHILDREN & SOCIETY, Issue 1 2006Valerie Wigfall This paper presents findings of an evaluation of a one-off, small scale, pilot project. Picking up where Sure Start, the government programme for families of newborns to threes, leaves off, ,Families in Focus' works with children aged four to 16 on a disadvantaged council estate in London. Through this route, the programme also reaches out to the families, providing a high level of on the spot local support. Feeding into the government's social exclusion agenda, the impact of the project has been significant, not least in restoring a strong sense of community to a previously alienated problem estate. [source] CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN THE UK, 1999,2005: REVOLUTIONARY FAILURE OR EVOLUTIONARY SUCCESS?PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2 2007TONY BOVAIRD In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally-oriented ,modernizing government' programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service ,,step change' rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements of reform as ,joined-up' working with other public organizations were still only at an initial stage some three years later and others , for example, business planning and performance management systems , have taken 20 years to achieve acceptance within the civil service. It appears that examples of meteoric change are rare in the civil service , the reality of the changes are better characterized as ,evolution' and ,continuous improvement' than ,revolution' and ,step change'. [source] Cyclone Mitigation, Resource Allocation and Post-disaster Reconstruction in South India: Lessons from Two Decades of ResearchDISASTERS, Issue 1 2000Peter Winchester This paper opens with a history of development and disaster-prevention strategies in a cyclone-prone area of the east coast of India and traces the evolution in the area of British and Indian governments' programmes and policy over a century. Research over the last 20 years has shown however that the programmes and policies have failed to balance economic growth with safety. Resources intended for the benefit of all have been diverted by alliances of powerful people to a small minority, and recent developments have reduced the physical protection of the area. The result is that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to the effects of cyclones and floods. The findings suggest that the best way to reduce vulnerability is to improve the socio-economic standing of the most vulnerable and for this to happen these people must have an assured income based on assets that will enable them to acquire social and economic credit-worthiness within the local economy. This paper presents evidence that suggests that non-governmental organisation (NGO)-supported co-operatives are the best way to achieve this through self-help and self-employment schemes. It also suggests that NGOs should be encouraged to take up environmentally and ecologically beneficial activities involving the poorest groups in the communities, in this way combining sustained self-employment with environmental protection. [source] | ||||||||||