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Publication date: 1 November 2002

Ken Whitehouse

The White Paper on learning disability has asked housing and social services to work together to expand housing, care and support options. The DoH and ODPM have recently issued…

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The White Paper on learning disability has asked housing and social services to work together to expand housing, care and support options. The DoH and ODPM have recently issued new joint guidance. Learning disability partnership boards have been asked to develop local housing strategies for people with learning disabilities by the winter of 2002/3. Several authorities have already completed work on housing strategies for people with learning disabilities. This article is about one of these, recently published by Southdown Housing and West Sussex County Council: the preparation of the strategy, some comments on strategic planning in the public sector and ideas which might benefit other authorities engaged with their own local housing strategies.

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Housing, Care and Support, vol. 5 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1460-8790

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Publication date: 1 September 1999

Ken Whitehouse

THE PRESENT COMMISSIONING CLIMATE needs a rethink. Can it deliver the Government's new welfare and housing agenda which relies on ‘joined‐up’ thinking between all parts of the…

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THE PRESENT COMMISSIONING CLIMATE needs a rethink. Can it deliver the Government's new welfare and housing agenda which relies on ‘joined‐up’ thinking between all parts of the service delivery system? Early contracting relationships veered towards the obligational rather than adversarial. There was a heavy element of shared risk‐taking and trust in the competence of the organisations, often developed as joint ventures. To many providers, it feels as though the present model is very much more adversarial.

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Housing, Care and Support, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1460-8790

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Publication date: 1 July 2003

Rachel Kovacs

This study compares the strategies and impact of six British activist groups, as documented in 1997, with data gathered on the same groups in 2000. These groups, Voice of the…

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This study compares the strategies and impact of six British activist groups, as documented in 1997, with data gathered on the same groups in 2000. These groups, Voice of the Listener and Viewer, Campaign for Quality Television, Deaf Broadcasting Council, Consumers Association, National Consumers Council and National Listeners and Viewers Association, attempted to build a public sphere for generating debate around and catalysing changes to broadcasting policies and programming. They were tracked in 2000 in order to identify those issues, relationships and groups that had endured. The research design provided a telescopic look at their interactions with their targets and with each other during a period of rapid technological and industry change. In a multichannel broadcasting environment where convergence and globalisation are buzzwords, activists used public relations to create a broader public forum for a wide range of significant issues with which to engage demographically, psychographically and geographically diverse publics. The ensuing media education, media advocacy and relationship building, although elite in origins, strengthened democratic discourse, thus reaffirming broadcasting’s invaluable role in civil society.

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Journal of Communication Management, vol. 7 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-254X

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Publication date: 29 November 2023

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The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World
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ISBN: 978-1-80382-701-8

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Publication date: 1 October 2002

Alisoun Milne and Heather Wilkinson

This paper presents the findings of two research projects focusing on sharing a diagnosis of dementia. The first paper analyses the attitudes of GPs towards early diagnosis and…

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This paper presents the findings of two research projects focusing on sharing a diagnosis of dementia. The first paper analyses the attitudes of GPs towards early diagnosis and the second explores the user experience of receiving a diagnosis (Milne et al, 2000; Pratt & Wilkinson, 2001). The authors draw upon these ‐ as well as wider research ‐ in suggesting ways that diagnostic practice can be improved by taking account of the user perspective. The findings are relevant to all those professionals working in a primary care context.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 10 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 December 2014

J. Luke Wood and John D. Harrison

This paper focuses on the Obama administration’s American Graduation Initiative (AGI) and the associated completion agenda.

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Purpose

This paper focuses on the Obama administration’s American Graduation Initiative (AGI) and the associated completion agenda.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, we provide an in-depth overview of the AGI with a focus on: (a) articulating the rationale that prompted the AGI; (b) describing the four primary components of the reform effort; (c) examining the political forces that led to its demise; (d) investigating the derivatives of the AGI in the form of private foundation and state-level efforts to bolster success rates; and (e) illuminating criticisms of the AGI that could have served to complicate the initiative’s success.

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In the latter section of the paper, we also offer recommendations for future national and state policy.

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The Obama Administration and Educational Reform
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78350-709-2

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Publication date: 1 June 1973

Farmer, huntsman and one‐time business entrepreneur, John King would seem to typify the capitalist figure. But behind his current chairmanship of Babcock and Wilcox—the £126m…

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Farmer, huntsman and one‐time business entrepreneur, John King would seem to typify the capitalist figure. But behind his current chairmanship of Babcock and Wilcox—the £126m engineering and contracting group —lies a diverse (and sometimes stormy) career which began as a social experiment in a depressed Yorkshire mining area. Ken Gooding reports.

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Industrial Management, vol. 73 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-6929

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Publication date: 19 June 2009

Robert Jupe

The paper aims to examine the role, funding and status of Network Rail, a very significant example of New Labour's attempt to operationalise the “third way”. The analysis of…

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Purpose

The paper aims to examine the role, funding and status of Network Rail, a very significant example of New Labour's attempt to operationalise the “third way”. The analysis of Network Rail is used to critique the “third way” approach to policy‐making in Britain.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper examines Network Rail, and the significant changes that have occurred since its creation, in the context of the claims originally made for the company by Transport Secretary Byers. It employs critical financial analysis and non‐financial performance indicators to examine the “third way” approach to rail privatisation, drawing on the work of its leading supporter in the UK, Giddens, and its leading critic, Callinicos.

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The paper demonstrates that Network Rail is an expensive mechanism for channelling public money to private companies. It argues that the “third way” is really a smoke screen for the neo‐liberal ideology, behind which there is a continuing transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the private sector.

Research limitations/implications

The paper focuses on one significant example of the “third way” approach to policy making. It demonstrates the strength of the neo‐liberal ideology, particularly the belief in the value of privatisation, in the UK.

Practical implications

The findings of the paper have implications for public policy and for those affected by rail privatisation, including employees, passengers and taxpayers.

Originality/value

Researchers and practitioners working in the area of public sector management and reforms should find the paper of value.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 1 October 2003

Karen Dodd

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Tizard Learning Disability Review, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-5474

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Publication date: 16 September 2013

Pamela Kent and Tamara Zunker

The purpose of this study is to provide evidence on the category, quantity and quality of voluntary employee-related information Australian listed companies disclose in their…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to provide evidence on the category, quantity and quality of voluntary employee-related information Australian listed companies disclose in their annual report. An explanation is also sought to determine whether companies adopt employee-related disclosures to legitimise their relationship with society. Voluntary adoption of corporate governance best practice recommendations is used as a measure of companies' attempts to attain ex ante legitimacy. Media agenda setting theory is used as a measure of an attempt to gain legitimacy ex post following adverse publicity from the media.

Design/methodology/approach

The annual reports of all companies with at least one employee listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a 30th June balance date of 2004 are examined to identify employee-related disclosures. This employee-related information is categorised and identified as positive, negative or a combination of positive and negative information by three independent coders. Ordinary least squares regression is used to explain the quantity of disclosure with a corporate governance score and number of adverse newspaper articles included as experimental variables.

Findings

Adopting voluntary corporate governance mechanisms is associated with the quantity of voluntary annual report employee-related disclosures. Higher levels of adverse publicity are also significantly associated with higher quantities of employee-related disclosures. The quality of these disclosures is questioned because 124 companies had adverse publicity relating to employees and only two of these companies reported any negative employee-related disclosures. Few companies from the whole sample reported any negative information relating to their employees in their annual report, with 98 per cent of companies reporting positive news or no news.

Originality/value

Most previous social responsibility research has focused on environmental disclosures. This study is original because it focuses on employee-related disclosures. Honest, transparent employee disclosures are an international corporate governance recommendation by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and studies have not previously tested the relation between reporting recommended corporate governance mechanisms and employee-related disclosures in annual reports.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 26 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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