Bulletin: May 2008
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GSR news
New GSR Code launched
The Government Social Research Unit has published a new Government Social Research (GSR) Code which will underline to clients, sponsors and others the quality and professionalism of the Service’s people and output.
GSR conference presentations
Presentations made at the recent GSR annual conference are now available on the website.
Apply now for GSR’s MSc in policy analysis and evaluation
The prospectus and application process the next intake, who will begin their studies in the autumn, are now available.
GSR research outputs
Communities and Local Government
- National Evaluation of the Capacity Building Programme for Local Government: Overall Final Report - The Local Authority Capacity Building Programme was launched in 2003 to support capacity building and improvement activities in English local authorities. This report describes the findings from a three year evaluation of the programme.
- Delivering Safer Neighbourhoods: Experiences from the New Deal for Communities Programme - Delivering Safer Neighbourhoods: Experiences from the New Deal for Communities Programme. The Government has assisted deprived neighbourhoods through the New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme, launched in 1998. It is designed to encourage delivery of local services in a coordinated way to meet local needs, and aims to narrow the gap between these 39 areas and the rest of the country. This report presents the findings on interventions and outcomes under the theme of crime and community safety.
DWP
The Scottish Government
- Public Attitudes to Broadcasting in Scotland - Research was commissioned by the Scottish Government to assist the Scottish Broadcasting Commission in their investigations of the role for broadcasting in Scotland’s cultural life and broadcast journalism in Scotland.
Other research outputs
Institute of Education
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Youth homelessness in the UK - The report looks at the effectiveness of policy developments implemented over the last decade to address youth homelessness.
- Impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty - Each year, the Government decides how much to raise benefits and tax allowances. The basis for these upratings is rarely debated, yet has major long-term consequences for the relative living standards of different groups and for public finances. This research considers the implications of present uprating policies, and aims to stimulate debate on this hidden area of policy-making.
The Work Foundation
Australian Government Information Management Office
Canadian Policy Research Network
- Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review - Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review - a literature review prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Margaret MacAdam examines articles and papers that study comprehensive models of integrated or coordinated care.
Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Local Government Association (LGA)
Other news
The Commons children, schools and families committee
Report on the Children's Plan
Committee chairman Barry Sheerman said:
"The Children's Plan provides an opportunity to make a tangible and lasting difference not just to children's education but to children's services across the board. We urge the government to be clear about what it hopes to achieve through this ambitious plan."
The Commons children, schools and families committee report on the Children's Plan (PDF)
Australia Policy online
- Mapping social cohesion - This report provides insights into community attitudes to immigration, multiculturalism and social cohesion, based on findings from especially commissioned national and local surveys. Topics include: our sense of belonging, how happy we are, how satisfied we are financially, and how much we trust in politicians, public institutions and other people.
The report also examines complex attitudes to immigration and multicultural society, including assistance to ethnic groups, and levels of discrimination, and the degree of disaffection in our community.
- Evaluation of the integrated rehabilitation and recovery care program (IRRCP), work plan (Australia) - This plan outlines the methodology for the evaluation of the Integrated Rehabilitation and Recovery Care Project (IRRCP). The evaluation will research the implementation, process and outcomes of the program.
- Pulling the threads together - Consultations, conversations and contemplations on child poverty in Australia. - Catherine McDonald and others / Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth - current debate on policy surrounding child poverty in Australia fails to include the perspective of children themselves.
Mathematica semi-monthly updates(US based)
- Report that examines Parental Choice Options Under No Child Left Behind Act
- This report presents findings on the implementation of parental choice options from the first year of two national studies of No Child Left Behind.
Parental Choice Options Under No Child Left Behind Act
- Impacts of Abstinence Education on Teen Sexual Activity, Risk of Pregnancy, and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- The Truncation-by-Death Problem: What To Do in an Experimental Evaluation When the Outcome Is Not Always Defined
Mathematica semimonthly update 08 April 2008
Website of the Month
Social Research Association
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