A comprehensive sample kit of eight Dow Corning paint additives is now available free through authorised Dow Corning distributors.
This article takes a fresh look at the duties to care leavers, focusing on the overlap with adult services in relation to young care leavers over the age of 18.
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This article takes a fresh look at the duties to care leavers, focusing on the overlap with adult services in relation to young care leavers over the age of 18.
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Supporting People has raised new issues relating to ‘ordinary residence’, as people with learning difficulties move from care homes to supported living schemes. This article…
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Supporting People has raised new issues relating to ‘ordinary residence’, as people with learning difficulties move from care homes to supported living schemes. This article examines the legal background and the factors which can determine where a person is ‘ordinarily resident’ and, consequently, which local authority is responsible for providing community care services.
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Jon Huntsman broke the mold in commodity chemicals, building a $4‐billion company that is still family run. Is there an IPO in this man's future?
Using the case‐study examples of Dow and UnitedHealth Group and a selection of research papers, Alice Snell, vice president of Taleo Research, explores the ways in which you can…
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Using the case‐study examples of Dow and UnitedHealth Group and a selection of research papers, Alice Snell, vice president of Taleo Research, explores the ways in which you can help control HR’s financial burden. She highlights four key areas where HR can cut costs: by accelerating the hiring process, reducing high turnover, avoiding exposure to legal implications and cutting the costs of temporary work.
The purpose of this paper is to interview with Jon Williams, Head of Group Sustainable Development, HSBC.
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The purpose of this paper is to interview with Jon Williams, Head of Group Sustainable Development, HSBC.
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The paper takes the form of an interview.
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Jon Williams developed and implemented HSBC's environmental risk strategy, working with the business units, credit functions and corporate affairs departments to mainstream sustainability risk management techniques across the Group. He is now additionally responsible for a new initiative to develop sustainable business opportunities, with a focus on lending and investments related to climate change, particularly low carbon energy, water infrastructure and forestry.
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Provides strategic insights into HSBC's environmental risk strategy.
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Because of the special “State of the States” issue of Library Hi Tech and other circumstances beyond my control, the four quarterly “Comp Lit” compilations for 1996 appear here in…
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Because of the special “State of the States” issue of Library Hi Tech and other circumstances beyond my control, the four quarterly “Comp Lit” compilations for 1996 appear here in a single and possibly peculiar chunk. A lot changes in a year of personal computing, but on reflection it seemed useful to include the citations and comments as I originally wrote them.