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Health
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Matters, Issue Three, 2007
Achieving innovation in central government organisations (HC 1447-I Session 2005-2006).-National Audit Office, 2006 - examines 125 innovative developments, nominated by 85 government bodies, to improve their administrative and organisational practices.
Australian diet quality index project.-Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007
Building better connections: interagency work and the Connexions Service by Bob Coles, Liz Britton and Leslie Hicks, Policy Press in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004.
Capturing Innovation , Office of Government Commerce (OGC), April 2004 - provides advice on harnessing innovative ideas from suppliers. The guide is aimed at policy staff as well as OGC's regular audience of programme, project and procurement teams.
Capability Reviews.-Cabinet
Office, 2007
Climate Change: looking
forward.-Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 2005
Community consultation
and the 'hard to reach'.- Victoria, Australia: Institute for Social Research,
2006
Community Interest Companies (CICs).-Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), 2003 - DTI consultation proposals on the introduction of a new type of company, designed for social enterprises who want to use their profits and assets for the public good.
Connecting the UK: the Digital Strategy.-Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, 2005
Corporate Governance: improvement and trust in local public services-Audit Commission, 2003
Crossing Borders - responding to the local challenges of migrant workers-Audit Commission, 2007
Customer-focused
government: from policy to delivery HM Treasury, 2001- examines how
public services must start from a better understanding of users and their
needs, expectations and behaviours.
Cutting the red tape: preliminary
paper detailing the problem of multiple entry and reporting by service providers
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2006
Delivering for Local Government: the impact of public-private partnerships-CBI, 2004
Delivering the essentials of life.-Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2004 - Five Year Strategy
Developmental prevention in a disadvantaged community - AIC report - aimed to involve family, school and community in a broad set of planned interventions to prevent anti-social behaviour.
Difficult forms: how government agencies interact with citizens.-National Audit Office, 2003
Ensuring that policies deliver value for money: Forty-Ninth report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2001 - 2002 - examines the progress made in encouraging departments to improve their policy making so that risks to value for money are better managed. Includes :
Estimating the impact of labour market programmes (DWP)
Evidence-based policy and practice: moving from rhetoric to reality / Davies
H.T.O., Nutley S.M., University of St Andrews. Research Unit for Research
Utilisation, 2002 (Discussion Paper 2)
Evidence-based policy and practice: rhetoric to reality / Davies H.T.O.,
Nutley S.M., in: Evidence-based policies and indicator systems, pp 86-95,
University of Durham. Centre for Education Management (CEM), 2001
Families At-Risk review.-Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force, 2007
From knowing to doing: a framework for understanding the evidence-into-practice
agenda / Nutley S.M., Walter I., Davies H.T.O., University of St. Andrews.
Research Unit for Research Utilisation, 2002. (Discussion Paper 1)
From knowing to doing: a framework for understanding the evidence-into-practice
agenda / Nutley S.M., Walter I., Davies H.T.O. Evaluation 9(2): 125-148, 2003
Government Information sharing to help protect the most disadvantaged.-Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2006 - sets out government commitment to sharing information between public services, to expand opportunities for the most disadvantaged, fight crime and provide better public services.
Governments and communities in partnership - University of Melbourne, Centre for Public Policy conference papers, 2006
How people handle uncertainties-British
Academy, 2006 - event examined how people handle uncertainties in relation
to topics including unemployment, pensions, GM foods, health care and nuclear
power.
Identifying Good Practice in the Use of Programme and Project Management
in Policy Making - a cross-departmental project led by the Cabinet Office
Strategy Unit and the Improving Programme and Project Delivery (IPPD) team
within the Prime Minister's Office of Public Services Reform have examined
good practice in Programme and Project Management (PPM) in the policy process.
The final Improving
programme and project delivery report was published in February 2003.
Identifying
good practice in the use of programme and project management in policy making:
practitioners perspectives Strategy Unit; Prime Minister's Office of
Public Service Reform, 2002. Presents a distillation of the views and experiences
of Civil Servants with policy and PPM backgrounds who have successfully
applied PPM to policy and sets out some of their 'wisdom'.
Impacting on policy; changing professional practice / Davies H.T.O., Nutley
S.M., Smith PC. Social Policy Focus 1(4), 23-4, 2001
Improving
delivery Office of Government Commerce, 2002 The Toolkit brings together
policy and best practice in a single point of reference; helps you ask the
critical questions about capability and project delivery and gives practical
advice on how to improve.
Improving delivery
of mainstream services in Deprived Areas: the role of community involvement.-ODPM,
2005
Improving procurement:
progress by the Office of Government Commerce in improving departments capability
to procure cost-effectively (HC 361 2003-2004).-National Audit Office, 2004
Improving Programme and Project Delivery, Cabinet Office, 2003
In the public
interest: assessing the potential of Public Interest Companies.-Institute
of Public Policy Research (IPPR), 2003 - examines the potential role
of not-for-profit Public Interest Companies in the delivery of public services.
Increased resources to
improve public services: a progress report on departments' preparations
(HC 234 2003-2004)-National Audit Office, 2004
Information sharing
vision statement.-Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2006
Innovation in central government -NAO report - examines 125 innovative developments, nominated by 85 government bodies, to improve their administrative and organisational practices.
Investing to deliver: reviewing the implementation of the UK Crime Reduction
Programme / Homel P., Nutley S.M., Webb B., Tilley N. Home Office, 2004
(Home Office Research Study 281)
Involving front-line staff in policy
making (pdf, 169kb) Strategy Unit, 2002. Examines the involvement of
the 'front-line' in policy making and includes case studies that have been
used to identify and disseminate effective practice.
Joining
up to improve public services (NAO)
Life expectancy and disability
in Australia - AIHW report - examines whether the number of years lived
with illness or disability has fallen or risen as overall life expectancy
has lengthened, focusing on years lived with disability.
Local delivery
of central policy: report by the Better Regulation Task Force (pdf,
190kb) Cabinet Office, 2002. This report contends that the effective local
delivery of services is impeded by too much control and rigidity at the
centre. It sets out a series a recommendations to achieve the alignment
of strategies, objectives and geographic areas between agencies.
Local politics in Britain.-Policy
Press, 2006 - attempts to provide analysis of the impact of changes
on the world of local politics, arising from The Local Government Act 2000.
Making
Government work: the emerging issues: seventh report of the Select Committee
on Public Administration, Session 2000 - 2001. TSO, 2001. This report analyses
the experience of government service delivery and policy-making in the UK
since the mid1990s, the lessons to be learned and the identification of
major problems, and the progress and prospects of current initiatives
Making it happen: developing understanding of research utilisation and EBP
implementation / Davies H.T.O., Nutley S.M., Walter I., Wilkinson J., Report
of RURU Seminar 1, 6 March 2002, University of St. Andrews. Research Unit
for Research Utilisation, 2002
Making it happen: developing understanding of research utilisation and evidence
based practice implementation issues / Wilkinson J.E., Davies H.T.O., Nutley
S.M., Walter I. Social Policy Focus 2(3):6-7, 2002
Making it happen from the centre: managing for the regional delivery of
local crime reduction outcomes / Homel P., Nutley S.M., Webb B. and Tilley
N., Home Office, 2004. (Online Report 54/04)
Making user involvement work: supporting service user networking and knowledge
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006
Managing resources to deliver
better public services, (HC 61-1 Session 2003-2004).-National Audit Office,
2003
Managing risks to
the public: Appraisal Guidance.-HM Treasury, 2005
Measuring
performance of Government Departments - international developments: a report
for the National Audit Office - Examines performance measure developments
in eight countries; Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Sweden and the USA.
Mental health and deafness: addressing basic rights for service providers in the voluntary and statutory sectors.-Sign and the Mental Health Foundation, 2005 - aims to raise awareness of the basic rights of deaf people when accessing mental health services. It aims to help providers implement the additional measures called for in Towards Equity and Access. The Guide includes a Deaf Mental Health Charter for endorsement by service providers.
A
New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal National Strategy Action Plan
, Social Exclusion Unit, 2001
New forms of professional knowledge
and practice in multi-agency services.-Economic and Social Research Council,
2005 - says training is needed to tackle complexity of joined-up services
for children.
No excuses: embrace partnership
now: step towards change. Report of the Third Sector Commissioning Task
Force.-Department of Health, 2006 - set up to promote a sound commercial
relationship between commissioners of health and social care services and
the third sector as providers.
On target: Government by measurement.-House
of Commons Public Administration Committee, 2003
People, places and prosperity.-Audit
Commission, 2004 - proposes a new local delivery framework for communities,
local leaders and policy-makers.
Positive Futures strategy:
be part of something.-Home Office, 2006 - reports on sport and activity-based
social inclusion.
Progress of reform in the
departments Reform Journal - journal article includes a ranking on the
progress of reform in the departments of Health, Education and Skills and
the Home Office.
The
Public Service Agreements 2003-2006 set out clear measurable targets
for improvements in the delivery of public service and cover all public
bodies over the next 3 years.
Public Services Productivity: meeting the challenge: a joint report by the Public Services Productivity Panel HM Treasury, 2000. It brings together the main findings and lessons from the Productivity Panel's programme of 12 studies covering such diverse areas as incentives, customer service, procurement and benchmarking . The Panel have identified high quality performance management as an essential feature of any high-performing organisation
Public Services: Quality,
Performance and Delivery.-Economic and Social Research Council, 2005
Reaching out: an action plan on social exclusion.-Social Exclusion Task
Force, 2006 - identifies the work, across government, to improve the
life chances and opportunities of the most disadvantaged and hard-to-reach
in society. The plan is aimed at reducing and preventing the harm and cost
caused by social exclusion to individuals, their families and our communities.
Reaching socially excluded young
people: A national study of street-based youth work.-Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
2004
Reform Journal 2006.-Reform,
2006 - contents include progress of reform in departments.
Regulating for improvement in public services: a review of activity and
issues / Davies H.T.O., Nutley S.M., Powell A., University of St Andrews.
Centre for Public Policy and Management, 2002
Regulation: less is more:
reducing burdens, improving outcomes.-BRTF, 2005
Releasing resources to the front
line - independent review of public sector efficiency.-HM Treasury, 2004
- known as the 'Gershon report'.
Replacing
the State?.-Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO),
2003 - calls for a PFI-equivalent to enable the voluntary sector to run
more public services. Summary
Reviewing the case for a local
income tax.-Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, 2004
Risk,
responsibility, regulation: Government response.-Cabinet Office, 2007
Social exclusion action
plan - Social exclusion Task Force - identifies the work, across government,
to improve the life chances and opportunities of the most disadvantaged
and hard-to-reach in society. The plan is aimed at reducing and preventing
the harm and cost caused by social exclusion to individuals, their families
and our communities
Stronger together: a new direction
for disability services in NSW 2006-2016 - New South Wales. Department
of Ageing, Disability and Homecare, 2006>
Successful Delivery Toolkit
Office of Government Commerce, 2002 The Toolkit brings together policy and
best practice in a single point of reference; helps you ask the critical
questions about capability and project delivery and gives practical advice
on how to improve
Sustainability and
social justice.-ippr, 2004 - covers six key areas for a sustainable
future: energy, transport, international climate change, waste, sustainable
communities and sustainable agriculture.
Third Sector provision of
employment-related services: a report for the Public and Commercial Services
Union.-PCS, 2006 - questions whether there is the capacity in the third
sector to deliver key public services in areas such employment, health,
community care and children's services.
Touching the State.-Institute
for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Design Council, 2004 - how
the state treats people when they become involved.
Transitions: young adults with complex needs.-Social Exclusion Unit, 2005
Trust in public institutions.-
Audit Commission, 2003 - survey carried out by MORI which explores the
concept of trust in public institutions.
Trying
it out - the role of 'pilots' in policy-making: report of a review of government
pilots.-Strategy Unit, 2003
Well placed to deliver?: shaping
the pattern of government service - HM Treasury, 2004 - known as the
Lyons report
What is local government for? refocusing local governance to meet the challenges
of the 21st century.-New Local Government Network, 2005
Who Cares? Building the Social
Care Workforce, ippr, 2004
Who is hard to reach and why?.-Hawthorn,
Victoria: Institute for Social Research, 2007
Why do some people with
deprived backgrounds do better than others?.-ESRC, 2006 - shows that
at any stage of life, someone in an adverse situation can 'turn things round'
under certain conditions. The most important condition is that they meet
others who value them for themselves, recognise their strengths and talents,
and encourage them to use these.
Working for children.-Department
for Work and Pensions, 2007
Young children and their services:
developing a European approach - Children in Europe, 2006
Your
Delivery Strategy: a practical look at business planning and risk (pdf)
Cabinet Office, 2001
Accidental injury to young people.-National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2006 - seeks to identify cost-effectiveness data for interventions that aim to prevent accidental injury to young people aged 15-24, highlight any gaps in the evidence and make recommendations for future research.
Alcohol
and drug use in Scotland.-Scotland's Futures Forum, 2007
Alcohol
Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP): the 2004 national alcohol needs
assessment for England.-Department of Health, 2005
Analysis of the National Childhood Obesity Database 2005-06.- Department of Health, 2006
Assessing the impact
of prescribed medicines on health outcomes.-Sydney: Australia and New Zealand
Health Policy, 2007
The Australian experiment:
the use of evidence based medicine for the reimbursement of surgical and
diagnostic procedures (1998-2004).-ANZHP, 2006
Best research for
best health: a new national health research strategy.-Department of Health,
2006
Care providers, care receivers: a longitudinal perspective - Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006
Department of Health - Tackling Cancer: Improving the patient journey.-National Audit Office, 2005
Disabled people, work and
welfare reform.-Child Poverty Action Group, 2006 - draws on interviews
with a number of disabled parents who have tried to find paid employment.
It notes the clear link between disability and poverty: 40 per cent of children
with a disabled parent live below the poverty line.
Emergency access: clinical case for
change.-Department of Health, 2006
Employment and mental
illness.-SANE Australia, 2006 - finds that a lack of suitable, flexible
part-time work is the major barrier to employment.
Engaging consumers in health
policy: assessing models and outcomes.-Australian Institute of Health Policy
Studies, 2006
Evaluating medicines: let's
use all the evidence.- Medical Journal of Australia. Volume 186 Number 5
Evaluation of 'Your health, your care, your say'.-Department of Health,
2006
Forecasting obesity by 2010.-Department
of Health, 2006
Health Challenge
England: next steps for Choosing Health - Department of Health, 2006
Health profile of
England - Department of Health, 2006
Health,
work and wellbeing - caring for our future.-Department for Work and Pensions,
2005
How to
reduce the burden of harm from poor nutrition, tobacco smoking, physical
inactivity and alcohol misuse: cost-utility analysis of 29 Interventions.-Monash
University, 2005
It's our health.-National
Consumer Council, 2006 - advocates social marketing to improve people's
health provision.
Life expectancy and disability
in Australia - AIHW report - examines whether the number of years lived
with illness or disability has fallen or risen as overall life expectancy
has lengthened, focusing on years lived with disability
Living with risk: Mental health
service user involvement in risk assessment and management.-Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, 2004
Mending hearts and brains: clinical
case for change.-Department of Health, 2006
National Service Framework
(NSF) for Older People.-NHS Wales, 2006
Newcastle disease
2005: lessons to be learned.-Defra, 2006
NHS
Plan: a plan for investment, a plan for reform published in July 2000
sets out a five year investment plan and modernisation programme for the
National Health
Older People's Inquiry into
'That bit of help'.- Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006 - documents the
experiences of older people and professionals working together to identify
gaps in service provision for older people living in their own homes, and
the evidence submitted to the Inquiry.
Our health, our care,
our say: a new direction for community services.-Department of Health, 2006
Paediatric medicines: proposed
EU Regulation (20th report of session 2005/06, HL paper 101).-House of Lords
EU Sub-Committee, 2006
Private funding mechanisms for long-term care.-Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
2005
Public health interventions
to promote positive mental health and prevent mental health disorders among
adults.-NICE, 2007
The quality of UK healthcare:
comparison to Europe.-Bow Group, 2005
Roadmap to reform: health.-Adam
Smith Institute, 2005
The role of general practitioner
based research in the development of national policy: case studies from
Ireland and Australia.- ANZHP, 2006
Securing good health for the whole
population.-HM Treasury, 2004 - known as theWanless report
Simplification plan.-Department
of Health, 2006
Strategy for an ageing population.-Scottish
Executive, 2006
Stopping Tuberculosis in England.-Department
of Health, 2004
Tackling health inequalities:
2003-05 data update for the national 2010 PSA target.- Department of Health,
2006
Temperance
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2005 - the culture of drinking, and how
it could be changed
Towards a national prisoner
health information system - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
2006
Towards Cleaner Hospitals and Lower Rates of Infection.-Department of Health,
2004
Twenty-fourth report:
Improving patient care by reducing the risk of hospital acquired infection:
a progress report (HC 544).-House of Commons Public Accounts Committee,
2005
Call for regulation of regional bus services to mirror that of London - PTEG, 2005 - results of survey of MPs
Consultation on urban transport.-European
Commission, 2007
Customers in
the Driving Seat - Report of the Public Service Productivity Panel published
in 2002. It reviews the quality of customer service in three of the large
transport agencies and sets out a number of practical recommendations that
would be of interest to all public sector organisations that want to improve
their front-line services to customers.
Delivering better transport:
Priorities for 2005-06 to 2007-08.-Department for Transport, 2005
Department for Transport
annual report: fourth report of Session 2006-07: report, together with formal
minutes, oral and written evidence (HC95).-House of Commons Transport Committee,
2007
Eddington Transport Study
update.-Department for Transport, 2006 - progress update on a joint
HM Treasury and Department for Transport project examining the long-term
links between transport and the UK's economic productivity, growth and stability.
Effectiveness of MSAs [Motorway
Service Areas] in reducing fatigue related and other accidents.-Department
for Transport, 2006
Forty-third report: delivery
chain analysis for bus services in England (HC 851).-House of Commons. Public
Accounts Committee, 2006
Future transport systems.-Foresight,
2005
Integrated resource planning
for transport: asking better questions.-Sydney: Institute for Sustainable
Futures, University of Technology, 2005
Making the right choices: options for managing traffic congestion outlines
options for addressing this issue in Melbourne and regional centres.
National Protocol for UK Route Development
Funds.-Department for Transport, 2006 - provides information about
rules and principles governing the operation by devolved administrations
and regional development agencies of funds to provide start-up aid.
No more school run: proposal
for a national yellow bus scheme in the UK.-Sutton Trust, 2005
Ports Policy Review.-Department for Transport,
2006 - proceedings of the Leeds seminar on projected use of ports
Public experiences of and attitudes
towards rail travel.-Department for Transport, 2006 - findings of an
ONS Omnibus Survey from February 2006 designed to improve understanding
of the public's opinion of rail services.
Road user charging: a road map.-Social Market Foundation, 2007
Seventh Report: Road
Pricing: The Next Steps (HC 218-).-House of Commons Transport Committee,
2005
Social Inclusion:
transport aspects.-Department for Transport, 2006
SQUIRE priorities for reporting - Scottish Executive, 2006 - on rail performance measures for Scotland
Steering through change: winning
the debate on road pricing - Institute for Public Policy Research,
2006
Strategy for transport needs
of all disabled people.-Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, 2006
Transport
2010 published on 20 July 2000 sets out the Government's long-term strategy
for the delivery of a better integrated, environmentally friendly, safer
and more punctual transport system.
Transport 2050: the route to sustainable
wealth creation.-Royal Academy of Engineering, 2005
Transport: Fourth
Report (HC 684).-House of Commons Transport Committee
Transport policy and the needs
of the UK economy.-CBI, 2005
Under-reporting of
road casualties: phase 1.-Department for Transport, 2006 - provides
a comprehensive review of previous studies of under-reporting and aims to
assess if under-reporting has been stable over time.
Armed
robbery : who commits it and why?.- Australian Institute of Criminology,
2007
Changing behaviour to
prevent crime: an incentives-based approach.-Home Office, 2006
Children in trouble.-Local Government Association, 2006 - call to abolish
youth custody.
Cognitive skills programmes:
impact on reducing reconviction among a sample of female prisoners (Findings
276) -Home Office, 2006
Crime in England
and Wales. - Home Office, 2007
Criminal
Justice: the way ahead. TSO 2001. (Cm 5074). Key white paper announcing
10 year crime strategy for England and Wales.
Criminal punishment and
restorative justice: past present and future perspectives.-Waterside Press,
2005
Cultures and Crimes: Policing in Four Nations.-Civitas, 2005
Delivering research-informed practice: lessons from the crime reduction
and social care fields / Nutley S.M. Department for Education and Skills,
2005. (Research Report: CR2004). Keynote address to DfES Research Conference
19 November 2004.
Developmental prevention in a disadvantaged community.-Australian Institute
of Criminolgy, 2006 - aimed to involve family, school and community
in a broad set of planned interventions to prevent anti-social behaviour.
The Drug Treatment and Testing Order:
early lessons (HC 403 2004-5).-Public Accounts Committee, 2005
An exploration of factors affecting the Successful dispersal of asylum seekers.-Home
Office, 2005
A five year strategy
for protecting the public and reducing re-offending.-Home Office, 2006
A five year strategy for protecting the public and reducing re-offending:
response.-Reform, 2006
From policing the local beat to
disrupting global crime networks: reforming the structure of policing in
the 21st century.-Home Office, 2006
IMPACT Nominal Index (INI).-Home
Office, 2006 - police database pools intelligence
Incidence of heroin use in
Zurich, Switzerland: a treatment case register analysis.-Lancet, 1 June
2006 - success of Switzerland's liberal drug policy
Keeping in Touch: the case for
family support work in prison.-Prison Reform Trust, 2005
Lifeline that failed
victim of system.-Guardian, 22 June 2005 - review of action to reduce
re-offending
Measuring
domestic violence and sexual assault: a review of the literature and statistics.-Canberra:
Parliamentary Library, 2007
New
directions in community justice.-ippr, 2005
The Pathways to Prevention
program: doing developmental prevention in a disadvantaged community.-Australian
Institute of Criminology, 2006
The post-release experience
of prisoners in Queensland.-Australian Institute of Criminology, 2006
Problem solving for crime prevention.-Australian
Institute of Criminology, 2006 - highlights the place of problem solving
in crime prevention, and the need for flexibility, responsiveness, and an
understanding of context in using problem solving techniques.
Race and the Criminal Justice
System: an overview to the complete statistics 2004-2005 - Home Office,
2006
Rebalancing the criminal
justice system in favour of the law-abiding majority: cutting crime, reducing
reoffending and protecting the public.-Home Office, 2006 - "sets
out an ambitious, but practical programme of change that will benefit everyone
except the people who seek to undermine and destroy our way of life."
(report)
Reducing crime: an overview
analysis.-Home Office, 2006
Reducing Re-Offending: National
Action Plan.-Home Office, 2004
Reducing Re-offending in
Scotland.-Scottish Executive, 2004
Report of the Independent
Working Group on Drug Consumption Rooms.-Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006
Reshaping probation
and prisons: the new offender management framework -Policy Press, 2006
Specialty courts: current
issues and future prospects.-Australian Institute of Criminology, 2006
Tackling Domestic Violence
national action plan.-Home Office, 2005
Tackling
prison drug markets: an exploratory qualitative study.-Home Office, 2005
Together We Can.-Home Office, 2005
- action plan to pass more power from central government to local communities.
Youth custody and community
services.- Statistics Canada, 2006
Youth offending: the delivery of
community and custodial sentences (HC 307).-House of Commons Public Accounts
Committee, 2004 <
Youth justice: the
statutory principal aim of preventing offending by children and young people.-Home
Office, 2006
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Action plan for the ten year
Child care Strategy.-Department for Eductaion and Skills, 2006
After the Literacy Hour: may the
best plan win!.-Centre for Policy Studies, 2005
Balancing the skills equation: Key issues and challenges for policy and practice . Edited by Geoff Hayward and Susan James, Policy Press, 2004
Building on the best: overview of local
authority youth services 2005/06.-Ofsted 2007
Diverse Missions: Achieving
excellence & equality in post-16 education.-ippr, 2004
Education funding -
Cornerstones conference paper, 2006
Education funding:
The impact and effectiveness of measures to stabilise school funding.-Audit
Commission, 2004
The effects of class size
on attainment and classroom processes in English primary schools (years
4-6) 2000-2003.-Department for Eductaion and Skills, 2005
Ethnically mixed primary
classes.-ESRC, 2006 - finds that ethnically mixed primary classes are
the key to improved social cohesion.
Global guidelines for early
childhood education and care in the 21st century. Association of Childhood
Education International, 2006
Go for it: supporting
people with learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder in employment.-Scottish
Executive, 2005
Inclusion: does
it matter where pupils are taught?.-Ofsted, 2006 - finds that there
is little difference in the quality of provision and outcomes for pupils
with learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD) in the mainstream and
special schools visited.
Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: second Annual Report, 2005
The Primary Review - Cambridge
University. Faculty of Education, 2006
Schools of thought:
how local authorities drive improved outcomes in education - New Local
Government Network, 2006.
Securing strategic leadership for the learning and skills sector in England
(HC 29 2005-2006)-National Audit Office, 2005
Special educational
needs and disability: towards inclusive schools-Ofsted, 2004
Starting school: the effect
of early childhood factors on child well-being.-Copenhagen: Danish National
Institute of Social Research, 2007
Success for All Delivery
Plan: Data evidence - Final report.-DfES, 2005
Sure Start Children’s Centres
- NAO, 2006 (HC 104 2006-2007)
Traveller Education: Changing
times, changing technologies-Nuffield Foundation, 2004