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Policy Hub Bulletin: August and September 2009

This bulletin alerts you to selected items added to Policy Hub in the month up to 30 September

Be sure to visit the Home page for news items added since 30 September

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Better Policy Making

Uncovering the real level of science skills at school and university - Policy Exchange report   28 September

Creating opportunity: low-carbon jobs in an interconnected world - GCN report   25 September

Dynamic benefits: towards welfare that works - CSJ report   16 September

The prospects for personal carbon trading - IPPR report   9 September

Building better lives: getting the best from strategic housing – Audit Commission   9 September

Room to move – LGiU report   7 September

Poverty, inequality and human rights - JRF report   3 September

Reducing child imprisonment in England and Wales: lessons from abroad – Prison Reform Trust   3 September

Why custody thresholds for teenagers aged 12, 13 and 14 need to be raised - Barnardo’s report   13 August

Evaluating policy

Children’s services interventions - OPM report   24 September

Vocational education and training in Sweden - CEDEFOP report   21 September

Education at a glance 2009 - OECD report   8 September

Crime is in the air: air pollution and regulation in the UK – CCJS report   2 September

Patients not numbers, people not statistics – Patients Association report   27 August

Challenges and opportunities for the UK’s university sector – IPPR report   26 August

National domestic violence delivery plan: annual progress report 2008-09 – Home Office report   21 August

Quality people management for quality outcomes - Work Foundation report   19 August

Places bases and spaces: research into community access and influence over shops, facilities and public space – Urban Forum report   14 August

Assessments of parenting and parenting support need - JRF report   12 August

Young adults today: key data on 16-25 year-olds - Young People in Focus report   7 AUgust

The relationship between quality assurance and vocational education and training certification in EU member states - Cedefop report   4 August

Care and prejudice: a report of children’s experience by the Children’s Rights Director for England - Ofsted report   4 August

Stakeholder relationship research: report of findings from qualitative research - DH report   4 August

Improving delivery

Leading from the front - Demos report   22 September

The benefits and costs of a national smart ticketing infrastructure - DfT and Detica report   14 September

Can pledging increase civic activity? – CLG report   8 September

Supporting carers to care - PAC report   8 September

A vision for the 21st century prison officer – Howard League for Penal Reform   2 September

Doing better for children – OECD report   1 September

Geo-engineering: giving us the time to act? – ImechE report   27 August

Improving leadership across the whole public service system - Sunningdale Institute report   18 August

The Crown Prosecution Service: gatekeeper of the criminal justice system - Justice Committee report   6 August

Improving access to child and adolescent mental health services – DH and DCSF report   4 August

Benefit simplification: how and why it must be done - CPS report   3 August

Website of the Month

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) - is an international think tank which seeks to address international governance challenges through world-class research. CIGI works “to identify and generate ideas for global change by studying, advising and networking with scholars, practitioners and governments on the character and desired reforms to multilateral governance issues”

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