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Collins, Claire, and Greta Sykes. "A multi-agency approach to partnership with parents." DECP Debate 1, no. 121 (December 2006): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsdeb.2006.1.121.18.
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This article sets out to review a Family Partnership course aimed at supporting multi-agency professionals from settings including health, education and social care to work in partnership with parents. Working in partnership with parents has been well documented as an effective mechanism for supporting the physical and psychological well being of children and families for over a decade now (DfES, 2004a, b; Dale, 1996). Delivering the course through a ‘common language’ by facilitators from different disciplines to participants from different disciplines enabled multi-agency collaboration to be embraced which is viewed as the most efficient way to deliver high quality services and ensure their effectiveness in being responsive to the service users needs (Miller & Ahmed, 2000). Evaluations from the Family Partnirship course, highlighted that great value had been gained by participants from having learnt and applied the skills for developing partnerships to support parents and also in learning from diverse perspectives of the multi-agency group.
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Elliott-Johns, Susan E., Ron Wideman, Glenda L. Black, Maria Cantalini-Williams, and Jenny Guibert. "Developing Multi-Agency Partnerships for Early Learning: Seven Keys to Success." LEARNing Landscapes 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2013): 149–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v7i1.635.
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The ongoing emphasis on early years education in Ontario provided a rich context for this research project, commissioned by The Learning Partnership (TLP), to evaluate a new provincial project called FACES (Family and Community Engagement Strategy). This initiative seeks to extend and enhance community-based, multi-agency partnerships that support young children and their families in successful transitions to school. Interview data from individuals and focus groups suggest re-thinking early childhood education practices to include innovative multi-agency, community-based partnerships. "Seven Keys to Success" in building multi-agency partnerships emerged from the data providing direction for educators and policy makers.
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Vayaliparampil, Mary, Frank Page, and Eric Wolterstorff. "The Missing Ingredient for Successful Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Cooperative Capacity." Societies 11, no. 2 (April 21, 2021): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11020037.
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Multi-stakeholder partnerships are an essential vehicle for solving complex societal problems. Agreements governing these partnerships often lack equitable partner agency in framing and enforcing multi-stakeholder agreements. This challenges the partner cooperation needed of partnerships to be effective. This theoretical paper introduces a new original model to measure and develop the cooperative capacity of multi-stakeholder partnerships so that future agreements involving the partnership are framed to share governance equitably among all partners and hence, increase partnership performance and effectiveness. The model provides a methodology to measure and develop the cooperative capacity of multi-stakeholder partnerships through key performance indicators that identify the cooperative state of partners and predicts partnership effectiveness in achieving common goals. The paper traces the theoretical genesis of the model, presents a comprehensive explanation of the model, and provides cases of the model’s application.
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Christian, Jane, and Eilish Gilvarry. "Specialist services: the need for multi-agency partnership." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 55, no. 3 (July 1999): 265–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0376-8716(99)00021-6.
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Somers, Julie, and Simon Bradford. "Discourses of Partnership in Multi-Agency Working in the Community and Voluntary Sectors in Ireland." Irish Journal of Sociology 15, no. 2 (December 2006): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160350601500205.
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This article suggests that practices of partnership in multi-agency working in the community and voluntary sectors in Ireland have not been adequately problematised. In the article, the experiences and understandings of professional youth and community workers engaged in multi-agency work are explored through a series of interviews. Analysis of their responses indicates that there is a range of unexplored issues in relation to ‘partnership’ discourse. In particular, concerns associated with power, trust and networks emerge. The analysis suggests that partnership in multi-agency work is seen by those interviewed as being far from benign and potentially a means of incorporation. These are important matters in broader debates about governance in late modern societies.
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Davies, Pamela Ann, and Paul Biddle. "Implementing a perpetrator-focused partnership approach to tackling domestic abuse: The opportunities and challenges of criminal justice localism." Criminology & Criminal Justice 18, no. 4 (October 15, 2017): 468–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895817734590.
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This article reports on a perpetrator-focused partnership approach to tackling domestic abuse. The package of interventions includes an identification tool and a unique multi-agency partnership approach to violence prevention and tackling abuse through perpetrator-focused early interventions. An overview of the key outcomes and issues emerging from this innovative package and partnership approach in one policing area in England is offered. Our discussion focuses on issues relating to the development of the co-ordination of the multi-agency tasking and co-ordination (MATAC) approach to addressing domestic abuse, particularly within the context of the opportunities and challenges of the localism agenda in criminal justice. Perceived concerns within the MATAC partnership, about victim safety alongside a heightened ‘focus on perpetrators’, caused us to critically reflect on the convergence of the politics of multi-agency working at very local levels. Our conclusion is that partnership working remains important in the shifting economic and political context in which local agenda setting and commissioning is occurring. The local still matters, and is as challenging as it ever was, in ensuring victim safety.
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Willis, C. D., J. K. Greene, A. Abramowicz, and B. L. Riley. "Strengthening the evidence and action on multi-sectoral partnerships in public health: an action research initiative." Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada 36, no. 6 (June 2016): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.36.6.01.
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Introduction The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Multi-sectoral Partnerships Initiative, administered by the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention (CCDP), brings together diverse partners to design, implement and advance innovative approaches for improving population health. This article describes the development and initial priorities of an action research project (a learning and improvement strategy) that aims to facilitate continuous improvement of the CCDP’s partnership initiative and contribute to the evidence on multi-sectoral partnerships. Methods The learning and improvement strategy for the CCDP’s multi-sectoral partnership initiative was informed by (1) consultations with CCDP staff and senior management, and (2) a review of conceptual frameworks to do with multi-sectoral partnerships. Consultations explored the development of the multi-sectoral initiative, barriers and facilitators to success, and markers of effectiveness. Published and grey literature was reviewed using a systematic search strategy with findings synthesized using a narrative approach. Results Consultations and the review highlighted the importance of understanding partnership impacts, developing a shared vision, implementing a shared measurement system and creating opportunities for knowledge exchange. With that in mind, we propose a six-component learning and improvement strategy that involves (1) prioritizing learning needs, (2) mapping needs to evidence, (3) using relevant datacollection methods, (4) analyzing and synthesizing data, (5) feeding data back to CCDP staff and teams and (6) taking action. Initial learning needs include investigating partnership reach and the unanticipated effects of multi-sectoral partnerships for individuals, groups, organizations or communities. Conclusion While the CCDP is the primary audience for the learning and improvement strategy, it may prove useful for a range of audiences, including other government departments and external organizations interested in capturing and sharing new knowledge generated from multi-sectoral partnerships.
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Shorrock, Sarah, Michelle M. McManus, and Stuart Kirby. "Practitioner perspectives of multi-agency safeguarding hubs (MASH)." Journal of Adult Protection 22, no. 1 (November 25, 2019): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-06-2019-0021.
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Purpose The challenges of transferring the theoretical requirements of an effective multi-agency partnership into everyday practices are often overlooked, particularly within safeguarding practices. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore practitioner perspectives of working within a multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) and those factors that encourage or hinder a multi-agency approach to safeguarding vulnerable individuals. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with 23 practitioners from one MASH location in the North of England were conducted, with a thematic analysis being used to analyse findings. Findings The interviews with practitioners illustrated the complexity of establishing a multi-agency approach to safeguarding. It was inferred that whilst information sharing and trust between agencies had improved, the absence of a common governance structure, unified management system, formalisation of practices and procedures and shared pool of resources limited the degree to which MASH could be considered a multi-agency approach to safeguarding. Practical implications Establishing a multi-agency approach to safeguarding is complex and does not occur automatically. Rather, the transition to collaborative practices needs to be planned, with agreed practices and processes implemented from the beginning and reviewed regularly. Originality/value Few studies have investigated the implementation of MASH into safeguarding practices, with this paper providing a unique insight into practitioner opinions regarding the transition to multi-agency practices. Whilst there is a focus on MASH, the challenges to arise from the research may be reflective of other multi-agency partnerships, providing a foundation for best practice to emerge.
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Morales, Lani, Lauren Yowell, Jonnatan Fajardo, Jacqueline Ibarra, Erika Romero, Yazley Hernandez, and Amanda McClain. "“You Sort of Fit Together Like a Puzzle”: Across-Agency Partnership Attributes for Combating Food Insecurity in San Diego County." Current Developments in Nutrition 5, Supplement_2 (June 2021): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab035_071.
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Abstract Objectives Food insecurity (FI), a social determinant of health, disproportionally affects U.S. racial/ethnic minority households. Reducing FI can lower health inequities, especially in San Diego County, CA where 42% of Hispanic/Latinx households experience FI. Capacity-oriented approaches may reduce FI and improve diet and health in low-resource settings, but local data are needed to develop these approaches. The overarching goal of this study was to identify multi-level sources of existing capital (assets) in San Diego County to inform an integrated approach to reducing FI. Methods Framed by the Socioecological Model, we conducted one-on-one semi-structured interviews with key informants at stakeholder agencies (n = 10) providing food and nutrition services to low-income households across San Diego County. Data collection is ongoing. Interview audio recordings were transcribed, checked, and discussed among the team (primary investigator and student researchers). The student researchers iteratively coded transcripts. The team discussed coding in biweekly meetings. As part of the analytical process, the team referenced the literature to identify theories or frameworks that helped explain what they were observing. Analyses were conducted in NVivo 12. Results Preliminary findings demonstrated that across-agency partnerships may be influential sources of existing capital for addressing FI. The Parent and Harvey model was identified as a framework to better understand agency partnerships, as it outlined partnership attributes in the context of partnership outputs. In San Diego County, across-agency partnership attributes that appeared to make partnerships successful included communication (e.g., regular communication, information sharing), coordination (e.g., referrals), trust, and mutuality (e.g., common vision/mission). For example, partnerships enabled a centralized referral process for clients needing access to a variety of services across multiple agencies. Conclusions In San Diego County, across-agency partnerships may be uniquely influential to addressing FI. Future research should consider how to continue to leverage these partnership capacities to reduce FI. Funding Sources NIH-NHLBI; SDSU ENS Thom Mackenzie Student Research Grant; SDSU Student Undergraduate Research Program.
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Budowle, Rachael, Eric Krszjzaniek, and Chelsea Taylor. "Students as Change Agents for Community–University Sustainability Transition Partnerships." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 27, 2021): 6036. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116036.
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While higher education institutions play a role in regional sustainability transitions, community–university partnerships for sustainability may be underdeveloped and fraught. Moreover, the specific role of students in building and strengthening those partnerships remains little explored. This research occurred in Laramie, Wyoming—the first community to resolve to pursue carbon neutrality in the top coal-producing state in the U.S.—amidst declining state revenue and absent any formal community–university sustainability partnership. Drawing on a community resilience framework and the social-theoretical construct of agency, we examined an informal, multi-year partnership developed through a project-based, community-engaged Campus Sustainability course at the University of Wyoming. Through a chronological sequence case study, we synthesized autoethnography, document analysis, and semi-structured interview methods involving community and university stakeholder and student participants. We found that students, rather than other university actors, played a vital bridging role in absence of a formal community–university sustainability partnership. They also served in a catalyzing role as change agents alongside community stakeholders, providing the potential to develop stronger community–university partnerships and advance sustainability transitions across other Wyoming communities. Findings suggest a need to keenly attend to power dynamics and whose agency is driving higher education institutions’ roles in regional sustainability transitions in specific contexts.
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Hughes, Martin. "Multi-agency teams: Whyshouldworking together make everything better?" Educational and Child Psychology 23, no. 4 (2006): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2006.23.4.60.
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With the advent ofEvery Child Matters(ECM) and the move towards joint children’s services, those involved with these changes, including educational psychologists, have become increasingly interested in multi-agency work. It is unlikely that an understanding of multi-agency work is shared across different agencies. Some of the terms, such as partnership, collaboration and joint work, are explored so as to investigate the meaning of multi-agency work. Many documents post-ECM appear to regard multi-agency work unquestioningly as ‘a good thing’. Wanting to sign up to the multi-agency agenda and work well with other professionals should not prevent us from exploring ideas which help to critically consider the purpose of multi-agency work and question the assumption that working together will make everything better. A discourse is emerging which makes it increasingly difficult to challenge the accepted orthodoxy of multi-agency working.
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Bellizzi, Saverio, Lori McDougall, Sheila Manji, and Ornella Lincetto. "Newborns in Fragile and Humanitarian Settings: A Multi-Agency Partnership Roadmap." Journal on Education in Emergencies 7, no. 1 (2021): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.33682/eqk0-0zek.
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Staniforth, Rachel A., Una Jennings, Jamie Henderson, and Simon Mitchell. "Using multi-agency, multi-professional collaboration to reduce serious violence and organized crime." Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being 4, no. 3 (October 10, 2019): 63–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.35502/jcswb.102.
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Serious violence and organized crime have been rising both nationally and in Sheffield, contributing significantly to increasing knife and gun crime, which results in threats to community safety and well-being. A multi-agency project with stakeholders across all levels of command and co- located operational staff was established to undertake collaborative activity that would protect the public by pursuing offenders as well as preparing for and preventing serious violence and organized crime: Fortify. Using a 4P approach, Fortify worked across professional and organizational boundaries to disrupt serious violence and organized crime. Relationships between partners have improved substantially through increased communication and understanding of the different roles, perspectives, and levers of each partner. A recent Home Office locality review applauded our partnership. Intelligence sharing has improved, leading to increased disruptive activity, including increased seizure of money, drugs, and firearms, as well as more arrests and safeguarding referrals. The number of mapped Organized Crime Groups (OCGs) operating across the city has reduced from 19 to 12. Processes and procedures have improved, reducing duplication and holding of information in silos. Community groups are more engaged, allowing us to address serious violence and organized crime in partnership. We propose to undertake action research with the involvement of all partners to provide more robust evaluation of our initial findings. We have found that collaboration between Police and Partners increases collective responsibility and facilitates success in tackling serious violence and organized crime.
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Lynggaard, Henrik. "Life is multi-storied." FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities 13, no. 2 (August 2015): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsfpid.2015.13.2.34.
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This article contains extracts from a speech given by Henrik Lynggaard on the occasion of his ‘Leaving Do’ on 17 April 2015. Henrik worked as a clinical psychologist in Camden & Islington Mental Health Trust since 1994 and for 19 years he was based with Islington Learning Disabilities Partnership; a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency partnership providing a wide range of health and social care services to people with learning disabilities living in or having a connection with the London borough of Islington. The leaving do was held in a large day centre (known as Daylight) with approximately 100 people present. Henrik delivered his speech following on from a series of speeches by line managers and colleagues.
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Davies, Pamela. "Practicing co-produced research: tackling domestic abuse through innovative multi-agency partnership working." Crime Prevention and Community Safety 23, no. 3 (May 24, 2021): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41300-021-00117-x.
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Atkinson, Maurice, and Valerie Maxwell. "Driving performance in a multi‐agency partnership using outcome measures: a case study." Measuring Business Excellence 11, no. 2 (June 5, 2007): 12–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13683040710752706.
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Gupta, Saurabh. "Worlds apart? Challenges of multi-agency partnership in participatory watershed development in Rajasthan, India." Development Studies Research 1, no. 1 (January 2014): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21665095.2014.938088.
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Shaari, Imran, and David Hung. "Partnership between a central agency and its schools." Educational Management Administration & Leadership 46, no. 4 (January 20, 2017): 578–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741143216682502.
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Central coordination characterises centralised education systems. Centralised systems pride themselves on efficient systemic planning for strategic foresightedness. This study investigates how educators fostered partnerships towards lateral networking propensities or laterality in a centralised system with hierarchical tendencies. A qualitative method was applied in examining newly formed centrally initiated, yet interest-based partnerships that were supported by central agency affordances. The concept of ‘champion resource’ – that is, teacher-leaders who champion particular innovations – is introduced to explain the integration of individual resources and collective efforts that can benefit teachers in their learning process through the appropriation of pedagogical innovations. We argue that tenets of partnerships drawn from studies conducted in decentralised systems can inform the dynamics of laterality in centralised systems. In our study, developing laterality starting from champion resource/teacher dyads was witnessed, and the aim is that the dyadic relationships can grow to multi-connected teacher-to-teacher laterality. We argue that the growth of this laterality is both cultivated by the ‘champion resource’ and afforded through centralised coordination efforts, which we will illustrate through the data from this study. We are in a unique position to study partnerships in a centralised system from the early stages of inception and towards laterality. This study has begun to clarify the possibilities of developing these partnerships systematically, and recommendations are made on how to advance partnerships in centralised systems.
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Wastell, David, Peter Kawalek, Peter Langmead-Jones, and Rob Ormerod. "Information systems and partnership in multi-agency networks: an action research project in crime reduction." Information and Organization 14, no. 3 (July 2004): 189–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2004.01.001.
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Brown, Kate, and Teela Sanders. "Pragmatic, Progressive, Problematic: Addressing Vulnerability through a Local Street Sex Work Partnership Initiative." Social Policy and Society 16, no. 3 (February 6, 2017): 429–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746416000634.
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Whilst it remains a criminal activity to solicit sex publicly in the UK, it has become increasingly popular to configure sex workers as ‘vulnerable’, often as a means of foregrounding the significant levels of violence faced by female street sex workers. Sex work scholars have highlighted that this discourse can play an enabling role in a moralistic national policy agenda which criminalises and marginalises those who sell sex. Yet multiple and overlapping narratives of vulnerability circulate in this policy arena, raising questions about how these might operate at ground level. Drawing on empirical data gathered in the development of an innovative local street sex work multi-agency partnership in Leeds, this article explores debates, discourses and realities of sex worker vulnerability. Setting applied insights within more theoretically inclined analysis, we suggest how vulnerability might usefully be understood in relation to sex work, but also highlight how social justice for sex workers requires more than progressive discourses and local initiatives. Empirical findings highlight that whilst addressing vulnerability through a local street sex work multi-agency partnership initiative, a valuable platform for shared action on violence in particular can be created. However, an increase in fundamental legal and social reform is required in order to address the differentiated and diverse lived experiences of sex worker vulnerability.
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Hannah, Beth, and Fergal Doherty. "Glasgow Bethlehem Twinning Project: Health and Wellbeing." Educational Psychology in Scotland 17, no. 2 (2016): 2–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsepis.2016.17.2.2.
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This article describes the involvement of two educational psychologists in a health and wellbeing initiative carried out under the auspices of a twinning arrangement between the cities of Glasgow and Bethlehem. It focuses on their participation in a six-day visit to Bethlehem in December 2015 as members of a six-person multi-disciplinary, multi-agency delegation. Relevant background information is outlined. This includes the basis for the visit; the nature of the partnership; and the context for the planned work. The aims and purpose of the visit and the type of information gathered are considered from an educational psychology perspective. In considering the wide range of experiences during an intensive visit programme, the authors offer their personal recollections and provide two vignettes. Possible developments and next steps on the path of collaboration and partnership between the professionals are outlined.
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Join-Lambert, Hélène. "Parental Involvement and Multi-Agency Support Services for High-Need Families in France." Social Policy and Society 15, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746415000706.
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This article examines developments in parenting and family support services in France. Drawing on qualitative empirical studies, the article considers two types of initiatives ‒ the Programmes for Educational Success (PRE) and parenting interventions delivered alongside child protection services. Both of these services are examples of new types of parenting and family support interventions in the French context targeted at ‘children at risk’, seeking to address and prevent problems of educational underachievement, youth offending, poor health in children and young people and child neglect and maltreatment. The article critically reviews tensions between principles of more responsive, partnership-based family support and more prescriptive parenting education and family interventions. Drawing on empirical findings, the article examines frontline practice and professional‒family relationships, highlighting the significance of ‘parental involvement’ practice and conflicting professional and parental perspectives about children's needs, family support and professional–client relationships.
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Hymans, Michael. "What needs to be put in place at an operational level to enable an integrated children’s service to produce desired outcomes?" Educational and Child Psychology 23, no. 4 (2006): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2006.23.4.23.
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This paper describes a research project that required members of existing multi-agency teams to normally distribute 38 statements about multi-agency working, taken from a literature review. Participants were asked to sort these statements in terms of which they would most and least want to emphasise for successful multi-agency working. The use of this (Q-sort) research method enables the researcher to factor analyse the data to obtain key factors around which there is significant agreement between participants. The eight ‘factors’ identified in this research represent eight distinct and different viewpoints or constructions about what constitutes successful multi-agency working from among 54 different professionals (comprising psychologists, social workers, youth offending team workers, speech and language therapists, youth workers, family therapists, psychotherapists, teachers, nursery nurses, health visitors and midwives) who are already part of multi-agency teams and who have been asked to use their experiences to give their opinions on this topical area. These factors include ‘having time for reflection’, ‘team members being given a chance and support to show what they can do’, ‘the effectiveness of the team in changing and developing to meet users’ needs’; ‘effective communication for sharing good practice’, ‘working with other partner agencies’; ‘acknowledging specific expertise and diversity’, ‘using training and development plans’ and ‘achieving local and national targets and goals’. These factors are also shown to relate specifically to the desired outcomes highlighted by the non-statutory guidance toEvery child matters: Change for children. The clarity of role and work processes is seen as key to successful multi-agency working and warrants more detailed research, especially as there are implications for educational psychologists if they are to be given the chance and support to show what they can do in helping multi-agency teams achieve their objectives. The importance of line management and professional supervision is also discussed. This research highlights the need for further investigation into the ‘people’, ‘processes and procedures’, ‘policy and strategy’, ‘partnership and resources’ and ‘customer results’ elements of multi-agency working. It suggests further that the ‘inter-professional’ element is worthy of more research.
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Daniel, Osarenmwanta Aideyan, Timothy A. Akingbade, Mohamed Nor Azhari Azman, and Jems K. R. Maay. "Implementation strategy of primary health care in Ovia communities." International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) 10, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijphs.v10i3.20853.
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Primary health care is the essential health service provided at the grassroot level. Over the years the implementation of Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes in Edo state are bedeviled with associated challenges such as limited community participation, great communication gap that limit evaluation processes of PHC programme and slow pace collaboration among stakeholders. These challenges need to be averted through effective and people oriented strategies to ensure the implementation of primary health care. A descriptive research design with a population of the study comprised 1,024 primary health care stakeholders in Edo state. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 180 respondents for the study. The study found that intersectoral collaboration involving partnerships with community health agencies such as village health committees and ward health committees significantly influenced the implementation of PHC. Intersectoral collaboration, community mobilization strategy and community feedback mechanism are effective and efficient strategies for improved implementation of PHC programmes. The study recommended among others that National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) should strengthen partnership with international health organizations such as WHO, UNICEF, GAVI, UNDP and boost confidence and trust of these international organizations.
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Marlin, Clare, and Amanda Westcott. "Leading Financial Literacy in Australia." Applied Finance Letters 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2013): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/afl.v2i1.8.
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In Australia financial literacy work nationally is guided by the principles of the NationalFinancial Literacy Strategy, a collaborative multi-agency strategy coordinated by theAustralian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). This provides a framework for manyagencies and organisations to work in partnership to develop and deliver initiatives to improvethe financial literacy of all Australians. This article highlights the thinking behind the strategy,presents examples of the strategy in action, and foreshadows next steps. Above all, it arguesthat the challenges of improving financial literacy are best shared – i.e. that a collaborativeapproach between sectors and countries remains the most effective way forward
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Millings, Matthew, Stuart Taylor, Lol Burke, and Ester Ragonese. "Through the Gate: The implementation, management and delivery of resettlement service provision for short-term prisoners." Probation Journal 66, no. 1 (December 23, 2018): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0264550518820114.
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This paper draws upon research documenting the implementation, management and delivery of Through the Gate service provision in one case study area across an 18-month period. In referring to interviews and focus groups with professionals, male prisoners, and the families of these men, the paper provides a critical examination of the practice implications of administering Through the Gate provision in a resettlement prison. In doing so we reflect upon the changes in organisational structures, the evolution of occupational culture(s), and on the impact on multi-agency partnership working practice evident within this Transforming Rehabilitation led period of transitional change.
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Maltman, Lisa Joanne, and Emma Lucy Turner. "Women at the centre – using formulation to enhance partnership-working: a case study." Journal of Forensic Practice 19, no. 4 (November 13, 2017): 278–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfp-02-2016-0013.
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Purpose The 2011 Offender Personality Disorder Strategy promoted formulation-led approaches to offender management. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how formulation can inform partnership-working with women offenders, specifically those with complex needs including personality difficulties. Design/methodology/approach Learning from partnership case-work is shared to highlight a psychological understanding of the needs of one female offender, and the organisational system operating around her. Findings The paper describes the development of a “volcano metaphor” as a conceptual framework to assist workers, without psychological training, to better understand the complexity of a client’s intense emotional world. It also reflects the impact of an individualised formulation for through-the-gate working. Practical implications The challenges and advantages of “joined-up” inter-agency working are highlighted, including some ideas on how to promote consistency. These include the use of formulation as the basis for decision making and to help “contain” strong emotions attached to working with complex women offenders. Importance is attached to stable and appropriate housing for such women by anticipating their resettlement needs prior to points of transition, and coordinating provision through multi-agency public protection arrangements. Originality/value The paper’s originality lies with the development of the volcano diagram as an accessible format for considering individualised formulation and risk assessment. The paper also offers detailed reflections on wider systemic processes attached to working with complex women offenders. It is particularly relevant to psychological practitioners working within probation and prisons, and also to offender managers.
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Poulos, R. G., and A. Donaldson. "Evaluation of a multi-agency partnership approach to the development of sports safety policy in New South Wales, Australia." Injury Prevention 16, Supplement 1 (September 1, 2010): A48—A49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2010.029215.176.
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Brinkman, Richard, Edward Butler, Terry O'Connor, and Claire Streten. "Darwin Harbour – a partnership approach to understanding and evaluating environmental challenges." APPEA Journal 59, no. 2 (2019): 523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj18137.
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Darwin Port plays a critical role in the Northern Territory’s export-oriented economy and in supporting the economy of northern Australia more generally. Darwin Port is the only true multi-modal port in northern Australia, with direct connectivity to southern Australia and beyond via the southern rail link. The port has developed rapidly over the past decades, with redevelopment of the Waterfront Precinct, development of numerous residential marinas, construction of the East Arm Wharf and marine supply base, and construction and operation of liquefied gas processing and export facilities. Future development plans include Middle Arm Industrial Precinct and Marine Industry Park. These developments have resulted in an order of magnitude increase in dredging requirements, an increase in vessel traffic and an increase in public focus on environmental quality within the harbour. A coordinated, multi-agency approach to understand the complex marine environment of Darwin Harbour has underpinned much of the development activity and provided a sound scientific basis to evaluate potential environmental impacts associate with past and future developments. Through a hierarchical process of environmental assessment and identification and mitigation potential risks, the Australian Institute of Marine Science has partnered with industry, government and other research providers to deliver projects to map and assess habitats, monitor environmental attributes and evaluate potential impacts, and provide environmental information in novel and accessible ways to support harbour operations and inform strategic planning. The partnership approach adopted for Darwin Harbour serves as a model for leveraging resources to understand and manage environmental and operational risks in northern ports.
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Foster, Celeste, Lynsey Birch, Shelly Allen, and Gillian Rayner. "Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 10, no. 4 (September 14, 2015): 268–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-05-2014-0011.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline a UK-based interdisciplinary workforce development project that had the aim of improving service delivery for children and young people who self-harm or are feeling suicidal. Design/methodology/approach – This innovative practice-higher-education partnership utilised an iterative consultation process to establish the local workforce need and then facilitated the systematic synthesis and presentation of evidence-based clinical guidelines in a practical format, for staff working directly with young people who self-harm in non-mental health settings. Findings – The development, content and structure of this contextualised resource is presented, along with emerging outcomes and learning from the team. It is anticipated that this may also be a useful strategy and resource for other teams in other areas and is intended to provide a template that can be adapted by other localities to meet the specific needs of their own workforce. Practical implications – The paper demonstrates how higher education-practice partnerships can make clinical guidelines and research evidence in a field often thought of as highly specialist, accessible to all staff. It also shows a process of liaison and enhanced understanding across universal/specialist mental health service thresholds. Originality/value – This paper demonstrates how collaborative partnerships can work to bridge the gap between evidence-based guidelines and their implementation in practice, through innovative multi-agency initiatives.
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Dolla, Tharun, and Boeing Laishram. "Bundling in public–private partnership projects – a conceptual framework." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 6 (November 22, 2019): 1177–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-02-2019-0086.
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Purpose The performance of public–private partnership (PPP) projects depends on how the project has been structured. The traditional PPP option analysis for structuring project scope and size relating to the bundling of functions concerning a single component of the value chain will need to be extended to handle multi-component sectors such as municipal solid waste (MSW) in formulating the project scope. This analysis is currently missing in the extant literature. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Through a comprehensive literature review as the methodological backbone, this study develops a testable holistic framework for the procurement of MSW PPP projects that examines how various factors of bundling affect the performance of the PPP projects. Findings Using transaction cost economics, agency and auction theories, the review identifies that innovation, maturity, quality specifiability, scope, competition, information asymmetries and transaction attributes have a significant influence on the performance and success of the PPP projects. Research limitations/implications Alternative supply chain management possibilities and firm-level organisational ways can be predicted using this framework to strategize the solutions for the municipal infrastructure. Based on this contribution, future research can test the framework to increase the knowledge of bundling theory about how to structure network infrastructure PPP projects. Originality/value Studies on how to bundle/unbundle the projects having components of the value chain are in a nascent stage. The present study attempts to extend the body of knowledge on PPP to the complexity of bundling both the functions and components of the value chain in structuring the PPP project scope.
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Osborne, Dennis J., Douglas C. Sanders, Donn R. Ward, and James W. Rushing. "FOOD SAFETY TRAIN-THE-TRAINER PROGRAM." HortScience 40, no. 3 (June 2005): 894d—894. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.3.894d.
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This paper summarizes the results of a multi-state, multi-institutional partnership delivering a targeted train-the-trainer program. The program provided good agricultural practices (GAPs) and good manufacturing practices (GMPs) based training to southeastern U.S. fresh fruit and vegetable (produce) growers and packers. Twelve southern U.S. states cooperated in this project between 2001 and 2004. In the work 150 trainers introduced nearly 20,000 persons to GAPs principles, including over 2,000 Spanish-speaking workers and a similar number of limited resource/specialty crop/grower/packer/buyer audience members. Actual numbers of persons reached was nearly 20,000, a number arrived at by counting signed-in registrations for events. Cost per person for outreach was about $6.00 per person, including travel expenses. In cooperation with the federal Risk Management Agency, a training component about risk in fresh produce operations was developed. This unit was delivered to historically underserved audiences, small farms and roadside markets, and other non-traditional audiences. This training continues today.
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Liddle, Joyce. "Aligning vertical structures and horizontal relationships: collaborative leadership and accountability mechanisms to enhance economic growth in England." International Review of Administrative Sciences 84, no. 4 (July 19, 2016): 659–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852316651694.
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This article explores vertical and horizontal dimensions of the work of public, private and civic leaders involved in economic development in England, in particular, those working in the complex terrain of Local Enterprise Partnerships, a key partnership tool in the UK central government’s localism agenda for driving growth. It offers insights into innovative ways in which state, non-state and citizen agents navigate a complex set of vertical, legal authority structures within fragmented, horizontal and largely informal new ‘spaces’ of interactions/interrelationships to collaboratively co-produce strategies and plans for transforming local areas. To advance our knowledge of collaborative leadership requires new methodological approaches to investigating multi-accountabilities and how co-production works within ‘loosely coupled’ networks. It is imperative to appreciate the problems associated with leadership working across sectoral boundaries within complex networks of vertical, legal structures and horizontal, informal action spaces. In such networks, leaders, as institutional representatives, work collaboratively to achieve objectives not readily attainable by member organisations acting alone. They also need to compromise and negotiate their representative role back to a parent organisation while protecting and promoting the priorities, aims and interests of the new entity, in this case, a Local Enterprise Partnership. Theoretically, then, the article is located in recent debates on the theory and practice of New Public Governance, to show the inadequacies of New Public Management models for capturing the complexities between formal authority structures and fragmented informal sets of relationships. It also draws on accountability models, notably, from the Utrecht School, to identify social relations between collaborative leaders on Local Enterprise Partnerships, and to show how they assert agency and individual actions within the boundaries of participating institutions. Points for practitioners The findings should benefit professionals, public managers and policymakers in understanding formal and informal linkages on partnerships for economic development. The article should facilitate an appreciation of the importance of greater accountability for actions in cross-boundary working. Moreover, in exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions of public, private and civic leadership in the complex terrain of Local Enterprise Partnerships, the findings show their feasibility as key vehicles to develop collaborative, co-produced strategies in transforming sub-national localities.
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Lohosha, Roman, and Iryna Semchuk. "Identification of marketing models of interaction of agricultural enterprises for biofuel production." Ekonomika APK 314, no. 12 (December 28, 2020): 45–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.32317/2221-1055.202012045.
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The purpose of the article is to study the formation factors of the biofuels domestic market in the network of Ukrainian agricultural enterprises based on interaction marketing. The materials of the article are focused on the study of both the causes of dysfunction of the biofuels domestic market and the search for new factors in the formation of such a market. Research methods. The research methodology considered the motivation factor implemented in the form of a separate marketing policy of «interaction» as the basis for the formation of the biofuels market in Ukraine, where the main market agents were considered agricultural enterprises (as biofuel producers, consumers and business partners).In the course of the research, in addition to a number of general scientific methods of economic research, an experiment was used to assess the interest of managers in typical (for Vinnytsia region) agricultural enterprises in partnerships in the business of biofuels production. The solution of the problem provided influence modeling of separate factors on attitudes of the enterprises-recipients concerning partnership interaction in researched business on manufacture of biofuels on: 1) linear Markov analytical model; 2) a nonlinear Markov model with a nonstationary matrix of transition probabilities; 3) generalized Markov imitation (multi-version) model of transitions; 4) linear Markov simulation model with individual parameters of the elements; 5) nonlinear Markov simulation model with «training» of the elements. Thus, the dynamics of the model was determined by the change in the attitudes of many recipients about cooperation depending on: 1) the intensity of information links about the benefits and risks of cooperation; 2) the presence of the implementation system of motivational factors (production standards, a special type of marketing policy and partnership scheme). Research results. An empirical reflection of the agency base among this category is determined, which allows us to conclude that the number of potential business participants significantly exceeds the critical level, and the motivational factors for the partnership are at least significant. In contrast to the national biofuels market, where – in the absence of any protectionist policy – the business economy has shown low competitiveness in recent years, these results suggest the possibility of forming a new market type – agency, where business will be formed among agricultural enterprises, united by certain integration schemes on the basis of interaction marketing policy of the enterprise-business initiator. The efficiency basis of this market will obviously be the effect of minimizing the value chain both in terms of the participants’ number and the value added itself, which will significantly reduce the cost of production. Scientific novelty. Firstly, the question of the forming possibility – as an alternative – a new type of biofuels market in Ukraine in the absence, unlike all other countries, a state policy to support the industry; secondly, substantiation of the idea of a special marketing policy of the organizational level of the agricultural enterprise as a business initiator – the policy of «interaction»; third, the identification of the agency basis of this market in relation to domestic agricultural enterprises. Practical significance. The applied value of the results is considered as a basis for forming a business for the production of biofuels in the network of agricultural enterprises in the context of empirical forecasting of potential partners and the role of motivating factors for building such partnership schemes. Tabl.: 2. Figs.: 6. Refs.: 17.
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Lamph, Gary, Cameron Latham, Debra Smith, Andrew Brown, Joanne Doyle, and Mark Sampson. "Evaluating the impact of a nationally recognised training programme that aims to raise the awareness and challenge attitudes of personality disorder in multi-agency partners." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 9, no. 2 (June 3, 2014): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-03-2013-0007.
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Purpose – An innovative training initiative to raise the awareness of personality disorder and enable more effective working with people with personality disorder who come into contact with the wider multi-agency system has been developed. For the purpose of the training initiative the nationally recognised Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF, awareness-level programme) has been employed. An overview of the comprehensive multi-agency training initiative will be outlined with reporting and discussion of the outcome data provided within this paper. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper outlines the development and outcomes of a service evaluation study. The utilised outcome measures were carried out at pre-, post- and three-month follow-up measures. The Personality Disorder-Knowledge Attitude and Skills Questionnaire was utilised on the recommendation of the central team. Additionally a Visual Analogue Scale was developed for the purpose of this study was also employed. Findings – Data findings are positive particularly when comparing pre- and post-results and the pre- and follow-up results. There appears to be an apparent peak in results post-training which could be attributed to the fact that knowledge and understanding is recent and fresh in the delegates mind, however positive results are still reported at follow-up there does appear to be decline in results and durability of the effect when three-month follow-up is compared against the post-training results. Research limitations/implications – Follow-up was at three months, which is a relatively short-time span post-training it would be of great interest to see in the future if the decline in the three areas continues. If this was followed up and if this pattern continued this could provide us with evidence to support the development of refresher courses. In the future, due to the multi-agency design of this service evaluation, comparisons of the different sectors, agencies and occupations involved, could also be explored further to establish what multi-agency areas the training has had the most effect and impact. Practical implications – High levels of demand from multi-agencies to receive training in personality disorder is reported. Our findings and experience provide evidence that multi-agencies partners from a variety of professional backgrounds can effectively work in partnership with people with lived experience to effectively deliver the KUF training. Social implications – This innovative roll-out of KUF training provides evidence that with a little investment, a comprehensive multi-agency roll-out of KUF is achievable and can provide statistically significant positive results displaying the effectiveness and change brought about via the KUF training. Originality/value – The originality of this sustainable and low-cost approach to educating the wider system is reported in this paper. This has lead to the strategy receiving national recognition winning a nursing times award in 2011 and a model of innovative practice nationally.
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te Plate, Maurice, Brian O’Sullivan, Pierre Ferruit, David Lee, Martyn Wells, Jess Koehler, Markus Melf, and Wolfgang Holota. "The European optical contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope." Advanced Optical Technologies 7, no. 6 (December 19, 2018): 353–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aot-2018-0041.
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Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is frequently referred to as the follow-on mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The ‘Webb’ will be the biggest space telescope ever built and is expected to enable astounding new science. The observatory comprises a 6.5-m-diameter telescope with a segmented primary mirror and four high-performance optical science instruments. The JWST has mostly been optimized to work in the near- (0.6–5.0 μm) and mid-infrared (5.0–29 μm) wavelength regions. The project is a strong international partnership led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The observatory is currently scheduled for launch in early 2021 from Kourou, French Guyana, by an ESA-provided Ariane 5 rocket. This paper will focus on the European optical contribution to the mission, which mainly consists of two highly advanced optical science instruments: The multi-object near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) and the mid-infrared instrument (MIRI). The opto-mechanical design considerations and the realization of both instruments will be described, and we will conclude with a short JWST project status report and future outlook.
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Perkins, Neil, Bridget Penhale, David Reid, Lisa Pinkney, Shereen Hussein, and Jill Manthorpe. "Partnership means protection? Perceptions of the effectiveness of multi‐agency working and the regulatory framework within adult protection in England and Wales." Journal of Adult Protection 9, no. 3 (August 2007): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14668203200700016.
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Brindis, Claire, Gale Berkowitz, and Zoe Clayson. "Options for Recovery: Promoting Perinatal Drug and Alcohol Recovery, Child Health, and Family Stability." Journal of Drug Issues 27, no. 3 (July 1997): 607–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204269702700310.
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The perceived magnitude of perinatal chemical dependency in California was the impetus for an interagency partnership within the California Health and Welfare Agency called Options for Recovery (OFR). It offered alcohol and drug treatment and recovery, case management, and recruitment and training of foster parents and relative caregivers to chemically dependent pregnant and parenting women. A 3-year, multi-method evaluation was conducted that included quantitative analyses of secondary data sources, semi-structured interviews with staff and clients, self-administered surveys of staff and clients, client focus groups, and child developmental assessments. Findings indicate that to achieve success, programs structured on the OFR model must recruit chemically dependent women early in their pregnancies, provide mechanisms for retention, offer a continuum of treatment modalities within the service system, make available a comprehensive array of ancillary services, and be responsive to the social, cultural, and familial context within which these women live.
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Bethell, David. "Maychell, K., and Bradley, J., Preparing for Partnership: Multi-agency support for special needs, NFER, 1991, 61pp, £4.00. ISBN 0 7005 1300 0." British Journal of Visual Impairment 9, no. 3 (November 1991): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026461969100900313.
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Perumall, Anna. "AN EXPLORATION OF PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THE YOUTH JUSTICE SERVICE AND THE MULTI-AGENCY SAFEGUARDING HUB & FIRST RESPONSE TEAM IN RELATION TO SAFEGUARDING REFERRALS REGARDING YOUNG PEOPLE SUPERVISED BY THE YOUTH JUSTICE SERVICE." Society Register 1, no. 1 (November 14, 2017): 123–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sr.2017.1.1.11.
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The drive behind this paper is to explore the quality of the partnership working between the Youth Justice Service and the Multi – Agency Safeguarding Hub & First Response Team in one of the London Boroughs on the basis of 6 selected cases which were known to both services. The study begins with an explanation of the rationale for the research and an introduction to both services and their roles. Subsequently, I review the literature, publications and relevant government policies linked to this topic. Successively, I concentrate on methodology employed in the study and any ethical issues arising as well as the theory underpinning the research. Next part presents the findings and offers an analysis. Finally, the paper outlines the conclusions of this piece of work with a brief summary of recommendations for both services in order to enhance the understanding of their roles as well as how to work better together in order to achieve improved outcomes for young people.
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Rakitina, Ekaterina Vasil'evna. "Comparative research on some peculiarities of labor regulation of outsourced employees in Russia and China." Право и политика, no. 3 (March 2020): 56–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0706.2020.3.32482.
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The subject of this research is the peculiarities of legal regulation of labor outsourcing as an atypical form of employment. Compared to traditional labor relations, labor outsourcing is characterized by multi-agency, which explains the peculiarities of its regulation. The article compares some of the specificities of legal regulation of the labor of outsourced employees within Russia’s and China’s labor law: peculiarities of emergence of relations on labor outsourcing, delineation of employer authority between the sending and receiving parties, social-partnership relations, legal position of outsourced employees, and labor legal responsibility regarding relations on outsourced labor as type of employment. The results of the conducted research yield a conclusion on the similarities and differences in legal regulation of labor of outsourced employees within Russian and Chinese labor laws. The similarities can be found in the structure of relations on outsourced labor, specificity of emergence of relations on outsourced labor based upon dual agreements – employment contract and staffing contract. There are also some similarities and differences in regulation of delineation of employer authority between the sending and receiving sides; in establishment of the legal position of outsourced employees, namely with regards to payment of wages; in resolution of the question of participation of an outsources employee in the relations on social partnership; in regulation of labor law liability of the sides of outsourced labor relations.
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이상수. "A Study on the Constitution of Multi-Agency Partnership Network for Successful Community Policing Cooperation in Korea - Focusing on Activation of Local Policing Cooperation Committee." 치안정책연구 23, no. ll (December 2009): 69–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.35147/knpsi.2009.23..69.
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Poulos, Roslyn G., Alex Donaldson, and Brent McLeod. "Developing injury prevention policy through a multi-agency partnership approach: a case study of a state-wide sports safety policy in New South Wales, Australia." International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 19, no. 2 (June 2012): 115–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2011.603153.
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Bell, F. Wayne, Margo Shaw, Jennifer Dacosta, and Steven G. Newmaster. "The NEBIE plot network: Background and experimental design." Forestry Chronicle 93, no. 02 (June 2017): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc2017-015.
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The Intensive Management Science Partnership: NEBIE Plot Network is a stand-scale, multi-agency research project designed to compare the ecological effects of a range of silvicultural treatments in northern temperate and boreal forest regions of Ontario. The NEBIE plot network was established in 2001 with randomized complete block experiments installed at eight sites. The NEBIE acronym stands for Natural disturbance, and Extensive, Basic, Intensive, and Elite silviculture. Each NEBIE treatment was replicated at least three times at each site, using large experimental units (2-ha plots). The NEBIE plot network provides researchers with an opportunity to conduct long-term scientific studies at multiple scales and disciplines. The operational-scale treatment plots allow assessment of a variety of forest values in a context directly relevant to informing forest planning and management. In this paper, we document the experimental design and describe the sites and silviculture treatments. Information about sampling designs is provided, along with preliminary results, in a companion paper published in this edition of The Forestry Chronicle.
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Malin, Nigel, Jane Tunmore, and Angela Wilcock. "How far does a whole family approach make a difference." Social Work and Social Sciences Review 17, no. 2 (October 10, 2014): 63–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v17i2.549.
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This article reports findings from a study to support the inclusion of a Whole Family Approach (WFA) within policy and provision for children and families conducted in one large northern local authority in England. In recent years mainly from research and good practice elsewhere WFA had been seen to offer opportunities to focus on shared needs, developing strengths and assessing risk factors. The principal aim was to design an evaluation framework to enable partners to assess and measure progress in the delivery of a WF strategy. Methods included individual interviews with professionals and managers (N=22) on knowledge and experience of WFA, for example their understanding of multi-agency work, along with their evidence of adopting a WFA approach. Findings demonstrate the process of how an evaluation framework was constructed based on adapting preexisting outcome-focused 'models' used to evaluate functions of partnership-working along with indigenous sources. The first type of 'model' entailed a number of dimensions including Vision and Strategy, Partnership Dynamics, Impact and Performance Measurement. The second had two key features: it drew upon the idea of realist evaluation, a paradigm used by practitioner researchers where the focus is upon identifying mechanisms that explain how an action affects outcomes in particular contexts; and the 'model' had been applied extensively to an analysis of family intervention projects. What has emerged is an evaluation framework characterised by a number of key 'signifiers' each of which is populated by a series of questions. The framework embraces introducing changes to the culture of planning and delivering services, placing building family strengths at centre-stage.
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Cheminais, Rita. "Effective multi-agency partnerships." Early Years Educator 11, no. 3 (July 2009): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2009.11.3.42743.
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Romerosa, Peter G. "Appropriating Public Private Partnership in Senior High School Program: A Socio-Cultural Approach to Policy Making." Udayana Journal of Law and Culture 2, no. 1 (May 25, 2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ujlc.2018.v02.i01.p03.
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The implementation of the Senior High School program in the Philippines illuminates the State’s response to the changing landscape of the global market economy. Its salient features focus on the additional two year-senior high school program which highlights the development of middle level skills for national development and global competitiveness. In order to concretize the implementation of the program, the State entered into collaboration with the private schools which is commonly known as Public Private Partnership (PPP). In this collaboration, the government provides the guidelines and financing while the private educational institutions provide the academic service. Framed from a socio-cultural approach to policy making in education, this study aimed to unpack a particular implementation of PPP of a private institution in an urban area, examine the institutional policies that were created in response to PPP, and interrogate the impacts of these policies on micro social processes. Using interviews and focus group discussions for methodology, the researcher drew narratives and insights from on-the-ground actors. Further, the investigation looked into how authorized policy actors (school administrators) and nonauthorized policy actors (teachers, parents, and students) are appropriating policies within the operational framework of the PPP in the implementation of the senior high school program. The results demonstrated that multi- layered appropriation and exercise of the agency were explicitly and implicitly deployed in diverse social spaces by actors as a pragmatic and creative response to the new educational arrangement. The paper provides a lens to further develop under-standing on how policy appropriation and production from the local context can inform institutional approaches in facilitating relevant student experience within the realm of PPP in education.
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Venkatesh, V. G., Abraham Zhang, Eric Deakins, and Venkatesh Mani. "Drivers of sub-supplier social sustainability compliance: an emerging economy perspective." Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 25, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 655–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/scm-07-2019-0251.
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Purpose Tragic incidents such as the Rana Plaza building collapse call into question the value and effectiveness of supplier codes of conduct (SCC) used in multi-tier supply chains. This paper aims to investigate the barriers to sub-supplier compliance and the drivers from the perspective of suppliers that adopt a double agency role by complying with buyer-imposed SCC while managing sub-supplier compliance on behalf of the buyer. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts a sequential, mixed-methods approach. The qualitative phase develops a conceptual model with the aid of the extant the literature and semi-structured interviews with 24 senior manufacturing professionals. The quantitative phase then uses a hierarchical regression analysis to test the conceptual model using survey data from 159 apparel suppliers based in India. Findings The findings reveal that sub-supplier compliance is positively impacted by effective buyer–supplier governance and by the focal supplier having a strategic partnership with the sub-supplier. Conversely, price pressure on sub-suppliers adversely impacts their compliance, while institutional pressure on them to comply is generally ineffective. Research limitations/implications The context of the study is limited to the garment industry in India. Practical implications To improve SCC compliance rates, buyers and focal suppliers should actively develop strategic partnerships with selected upstream supply chain actors; should set a reasonable price across the supply chain; and, should include specific sub-supplier compliance requirements within the supply contract. The findings also suggest the need to develop social sustainability protocols that are cognisant of regional contexts. Originality/value The absence of prior research on SCC implementation by sub-suppliers, this study represents a pioneering empirical study into such multi-tier sourcing arrangements. It provides strong support that sub-supplier governance arrangements differ from those typically found in the focal supplier layer. It also provides empirical evidence of the critical factors that encourage sub-supplier compliance within the apparel industry of a regionally developing economy.
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Khodyakov, Dmitry, Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Felica Jones, S. Megan Heller, Esmeralda Pulido, Kenneth B. Wells, and Elizabeth Bromley. "Whole Person Care in Underresourced Communities: Stakeholder Priorities at Long-Term Follow-Up in Community Partners in Care." Ethnicity & Disease 28, Supp (September 6, 2018): 371–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.28.s2.371.
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Objective: Depressed individuals may require help from different agencies to address health and social needs, but how such coordination occurs in under-resourced communities is poorly understood. This study sought to identify priorities of Latino and African American depressed clients, explore whether service providers understand client priorities, and describe how providers address them.Methods: Between October 2014 and February 2015, we interviewed 104 clients stratified by depression history and 50 representatives of different programs in health and social community agencies who participated in Community Partners in Care, a cluster-randomized trial of coalition-building approaches to delivering depression quality improvement programs. Clients were queried about their most pressing needs; program representatives identified their clients’ needs and explained how they addressed them.Results: Physical and mental health were clients’ top priorities, followed by housing, caring for and building relationships with others, and employment. While persistently depressed clients prioritized mental health, those with improved depression prioritized relationships with others. Program representatives identified housing, employment, mental health, and improving relationships with others as clients’ top priorities. Needs assessment, client-centered services, and linkages to other agencies were main strategies used to address client needs.Conclusion: Depressed clients have multiple health and social needs, and program representatives in under-resourced communities understand the complexity of clients’ needs. Agencies rely on needs assessment and referrals to meet their clients’ needs, which enhances the importance of agency partnership in “whole person” initiatives. Our results illustrate agency capacity to adopt integrated care models that will address clients’ multiple needs through multi-sector collaboration and describe potential strategies to help reach the goal of whole person care.Ethn Dis. 2018;(Suppl 2): 371- 380; doi:10.18865/ed.28.S2.371.
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Kolopaking, Lala M., and Yonny Koesmaryono. "Village-Based Institutional Development Strategy to Prevent the Paddy-Field Conversion at Pandeglang Regency, Banten, Indonesia." European Journal of Economics and Business Studies 7, no. 1 (January 21, 2017): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejes.v7i1.p40-51.
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Indonesia government needs innovative policies preventing the paddy-field conversion in the current era of regional decentralization. Average of paddy-field conversion in Indonesia has reached 187,200 hectares per year. Irrigated-paddy-field in Indonesia that converted to non-agricultural purpose in 2009 had already reached 3.09 million hectares (42.4 percent). The highest conversion areas were in Java and Bali islands that reached 1.67 million hectares. The study in Pandeglang Regency has shown the prior strategy to prevent paddy-field conversion. It requires the integration the protection toward the peasant based on inter- village participatory partnership to develop the rural area. The developed institution should follow the current applicable regulation, namely the Local Public Service Agency or Badan Layanan Umum Daerah (BLUD) to protect the paddy-fields. It does not only by managing logistic to support the production of the peasants, but also as a synchronizer among multi-parties for the empowerment actions of the peasants to manage the paddy-field farming. The government should use various development approach policies to prevent paddy-field conversion. Top-down development and bottom-up approach is required to be affirmed. Moreover, technocratic approach should be supported by participatory development. Otherwise, the stakeholders should be involved to implement the rural-based institutional development strategy preventing the paddy-field conversion.