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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
No full textEvaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
Edited by:
Llewellyn, M., Verity, F. and Wallace, S.
Chapter authors:
Chapter 1: Evaluation Overview and Literature Methodology
Verity, F., Wallace, S., Llewellyn, M., Anderson, P. and Lyttleton-Smith, J.
Chapter 2: Well-being literature review
Anderson, P., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Kosnes, L., Read, S., Blackmore, H. and Williams, Z.
Chapter 3: Prevention and early intervention literature review
Verity, F., Read, S. and Richards, J.
Chapter 4: Co-production literature review
Andrews, N., Calder, G., Blanluet, N., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Chapter 5: Multi-agency literature review
Wallace, C., Orrell, A., Garthwaite, T., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Chapter 6: Voice and control literature review
Llewellyn, M., Saltus, R., Blackmore, H., Tetlow, S., Williams, Z. and Wallace, S.
Chapter 7: Financial and economic literature review
Phillips, C., Prowle, M., Tetlow S. and Williams Z.Mae’r ddogfen yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. This document is also available in Welsh. OGL © Crown Copyright Digital ISBN 978-1-80038-948-9.This document is a summary of the extensive review of the literature to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (hereafter referred to as ‘the Act’).Welsh Governmen
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
No full textThe author list for the literature review is provided below:
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
Chapter authors:
Introduction and methods
Verity, F., Wallace, S., Llewellyn, M., Anderson, P. and Lyttleton-Smith, J.
Well-being
Anderson, P., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Kosnes, L., Read, S., Blackmore, H. and Williams, Z.
Prevention and early intervention
Verity, F., Read, S. and Richards, J.
Co-production
Andrews, N., Calder, G., Blanluet, N., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Multi-agency
Wallace, C., Orrell, A., Garthwaite, T., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Voice and control
Llewellyn, M., Saltus, R., Blackmore, H., Tetlow, S., Williams, Z. and Wallace, S.
Financial and economic
Phillips, C., Prowle, M., Tetlow, S. and Williams, Z.
Service user and carer experiences under the Act
Wallace, S.This report is a summary of the extensive review of the literature to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. This document is a summary of the extensive review of the literature undertaken to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (hereafter referred to as ‘the Act’).1 The Welsh Government has commissioned a partnership between academics across four universities in Wales and expert advisers to deliver the evaluation. The Act sets out a government vision to produce ‘transformative changes’ in social service public policy, regulations, and delivery arrangements across Wales. It has 11 parts and is informed by five principles that set out a vision to produce transformative changes in public policy, regulations, and service delivery. Aligned to it are structures, processes, and codes of practice. The Evaluation of the Act – a study called IMPACT – is organised around each of the five principles together with a focus on the financial and economic aspects of the Act’s implementation. The approach to undertaking this evaluation research is to structure the evaluation by using the fundamental principles of the Act as the scaffolding. These principles are: • Well-being • Prevention • Co-Production • Multi-agency working • Voice and control There is also a focus on the financial and economic considerations of the implementation of the Act and this area constitutes the sixth evaluation study theme
CALDER: Cryogenic light detectors for background-free searches
No full textCALDER is a R&D project for the development of cryogenic light detectors with an active surface of 5x5cm2 and an energy resolution of 20 eV RMS for visible and UV photons. These devices can enhance the sensitivity of next generation large mass bolometric detectors for rare event searches, providing an active background rejection method based on particle discrimination. A CALDER detector is composed by a large area Si absorber substrate with superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) deposited on it. The substrate converts the incoming light into athermal phonons, that are then sensed by the KIDs. KID technology combine fabrication simplicity with natural attitude to frequency-domain multiplexing, making it an ideal candidate for a large scale bolometric experiments. We will give an overview of the CALDER project and show the performances obtained with prototype detectors both in terms of energy resolution and efficiency
Maine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s M
No full textMaine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, which has sold over 90,000 copies, and a number of other books, including The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean and Cuba: A Cruising Guide
Increasing transparency in the British Journal of Nutrition
No full textKeen readers of the BJN will have noticed the recent appearance of ‘conflict of interest’ statements and of more complete descriptions of the contribution of each author to the publication. I have introduced these innovations in order to increase the transparency of the articles that we publish in the BJN; further strategies to increase accuracy, transparency and accountability of papers published in the journal will follow in order to encourage a climate of intellectual honesty and to decrease the risk of misconduct. In particular, the journal will follow as closely as possible the recommendations and guidelines of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE)(1) and of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)(2). COPE and ICMJE have made available a range of guidelines aimed at establishing best practice in scientific publishing. These include guidelines for authors and for the conduct of reviewers, editorial boards and editors. Many of the guidelines are already followed by the BJN, but others are not yet fully in place
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
The theatre of promiscuity : a comparative study of the dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker
No full textThe word 'artist serves as a pivot to the major concerns of this study. Consideration of its application and meaning in relation to contemporary society facilitates a detailed exploration and analysis of selected dramatic writings by Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker. The comparative nature of this work begins by charting the parallel journeys of these writers - within widely differing cultural contexts - from a critique of social determinations which serve to define and bound authorial intent to a process of "promiscuous" self-definition whereby the artistic imagination is used to name and designate a specific relationship to the cultural and social structures within which their work will be received.
Working from a theoretical base which, in the case of Soyinka, finds its foundations in critique and commentary upon nationalist discourse, and in the case of Barker,
rests upon contemporary critiques of Enlightenment reason, the study debates their development of theatrical form within both social and cultural contexts. Emphasis is
placed upon the relationship of the author to the dramatic text, the creation of character and the defined channels of communication through which dramatic performance is to be received by the spectator. The concept of 'transgression' is
explored as a key principle by which to define the 'theatrical' as opposed to the 'social' text.
Chapters Four and Five link the work of Howard Barker and Wole Soyinka through the application of Nietzschean philosophy, with especial emphasis being placed upon
the concept of genealogical history, the creation of the aesthetic, and the consideration of 'tragedy' as a means by which to offer resistant critique to the social
imperative of national citizenship as a badge and boundary to identity. The formation of the 'tragic' or 'catastrophic' individual is explored through key dramatic texts, thus allowing dramatic form the status of a discourse in its own right.
Throughout the study an attempt is made to develop an argument which allows the artist to be distinguished as one who speaks to his nation, rather than for his nation.
With regard to the work of Barker and Soyinka this has involved both the exposure and exploration of a theatrical space unmapped by social cartography, and a peopling
of the stage with creations who could be described as 'ethical' rather than 'political' individuals
Fables of Aesop according to Sir Roger L'Estrange.
No full textLovely stuff. The drawings really are excellent. I saw the first edition of this book from Harrison in Paris for sale in Atlanta at too high a price but have since found it. I have eight different versions of this Dover reprint. The earliest, which sold for 1.50, I found at Stillwater Book Center for 1.75, comes from an unknown source and seems to have been the Calder Aesop I used personally as I began this collection. Copy C, for 1 from an unknown source. This copy moves the price from the front to the back cover. This version also consolidates the book's first eight pages into two by eliminating four blanks and a page with nothing other than title and author. Now the title-page starts the book. Its verso combines the Publisher's Note, with its date 1967, and the bibliographical material previously on a separate page. This version is unique for listing a price in Canada. Copy D, which sold originally for 15 for it. Copy E, for 2.40 from Cartesian Bookstore, Berkeley, in August of 1994. This version adds an ISBN number on its back cover. Copy F, for 4.95, adds a bar code on and changes the format of the back cover by removing all red except a stripe along the spine. It was a gift of Mary Pat Ryan from Vail, CO, in September of 1997.Sir Roger l'Estrang
Jean de la Fontaine: Selected Fables
No full textHere is a favorite paperback of mine with lively illustrations, probably not quite as good as those in the Aesop edition Calder did in 1931. The illustrations are well reproduced. I will include six copies of this book under this listing. The book changes little, but the format of its covers and spine does change, and the price changes. Copy A sold for 2; the price on this copy is scratched out. The back page removes the price and adds the registered symbol for the Dover trademark. The spine expands the book's number to O-486-21878-3 and adds the Dover trademark. It cost 2, as its back cover declares, though the front cover does not show a price. A price for Canada is added to the back cover. The blue framing of the back cover yields to a simple strip of blue continuous with the spine's color. It cost 3.50 but no longer mentions Canada. Now the ISBN appears on the back cover as well as the spine. This copy cost 3.95. This worn copy cost 5.95 and adds a bar code to the back cover. It comes from Cheapybooks.com.Original language: freEunice Clar
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