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This narrative review explored the efficacy of school-based child sexual abuse prevention programmes between 1990 and 2002. There were 22 efficacy studies that met clear inclusion criteria. Results covered both methodological design and the range of outcome measures. Methodology was analysed through four dimensions (target population, prevention programme implementation, evaluation methodology and cost-effectiveness). Outcomes for children covered nine categories (knowledge, skills, emotion, perception of risk, touch discrimination, reported response to actual threat/abuse, disclosure, negative effects and maintenance of gains). The studies had many methodological limitations. Prevention programmes had a measure of effectiveness in increasing children ' s awareness of child sexual abuse as well as self-protective skills. Beyond minimal disclosure rates, there was no evidence to demonstrate that programmes protected children from intra-familial sexual abuse. For a small number of children prevention programmes produced minimal negative emotional effects. Recommendations for future research, policy and practice, include realistic outcomes for child participants and locating programmes within wider abuse prevention measures.

In the first article in this series Pat Terry showed that current organisation theory is very much concerned with the organisation within its changing environment. The successful organisation is the one which is able to predict, sense and analyse the implications of changes in the environment and adapt its products, structures, systems and relationships to cope with these changes. Change and coping with it is then a theme of organisation theory and it is also an increasingly dominant thread in the field of training itself. Training can roughly be divided into two areas: • training people to do their current jobs better, including preparing people for their next jobs; • equipping people to manage/cope with change. Enough has already been written on the former and we propose in this article to concentrate on the latter. Before doing so, however, we wish to explore the dynamics of organisational change and the key importance of diagnosis in determining what kinds of change interventions, training and other, are necessary in order to create and maintain a healthy, adaptive and effective organisation.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the contribution of Donald F. Dixon to the study of marketing as an academic subject.

This paper evaluates three of Dixon's working papers to demonstrate two features of his work. First, Dixon's ability to identify critically important topics of enquiry – topics that are of concern to academics but also that reflects issues in the “real” world. Second, the quality of his scholarship which is based upon an extraordinarily wide knowledge and understanding of the social sciences – especially of the economics and the marketing literatures.

In addition to the challenge that the quality of his work makes to the quality of much academic research in marketing, Dixon's papers raise fundamental questions about the purpose of marketing as an academic study and also as an economic activity.

This paper shows how even when his ideas were at an early stage of development Dixon analysis was both insightful and rigorous. In addition, the paper also provides an insight into Dixon's generous personality.

This paper aims to examine the connections between community and community facilities, and the implications for local government facility management.

In addition to cited published literature, the paper draws on archival and case study research and interviews with local government managers and local residents conducted by the author.

The financing, planning and management of community facilities has emerged as a major public policy issue in Australia in recent years as assets acquired in the post‐World War II years of growth and decentralisation age, service needs widen and local governments experience fiscal stress. During this period, awareness of the limits of state provision and market individualism has brought renewed focus on community, and policy outputs, particularly at local government level, are increasingly framed around community strengthening.

The research focus is Victoria, Australia.

The paper identifies key strategic issues for facility planners and managers involved in regeneration projects.

The new authorities created by this Act, probably the most important local government measure of the century, will be voted into existence during 1973 and commence functioning on 1st April 1974. Their responsibilities and the problems facing them are in many ways quite different and of greater complexity than those with which existing councils have had to cope. In its passage through the Lords, a number of amendments were made to the Act, but in the main, it is a scheme of reorganization originally produced after years of discussion and long sessions in the Commons. Local government reorganization in Scotland takes place one year later and for Northern Ireland, we must continue to wait and pray for a return of sanity.

This article proposes a new engagement between mental health services and the social inclusion and employment agendas that are a core part of the Government's programme. Initiatives such as Welfare to Work, New Deal and health action zones are explained, and suggestions are made about some of the opportunities they present for improving mental health services and the lives of service users.

MY RECENT articles on ‘Our professional frustrations’ (NLW, January) and ‘Opportunities for librarians in public relations’ (NLW, March), were intended to show that mid‐senior librarians, and particularly the ‘old ALAS’, do not have to remain in jobs where prospects and satisfaction have declined, due partly to local government reorganisation drastically reducing promotional opportunities. Two reactions immediately following publication of the March article: one from a senior librarian, very comfortably placed financially, who described my views as ‘a policy of despair’; the other from a younger librarian closer to the type for whom the article was written, who was clearly interested in my views. As they say, it all depends …