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The Best of Care? An Independent Review of Issues at the Interface of Disability Support and Care and Protection

"The Best of Care?" review explores the policy, legislation and operational practice related to children and young people with disabilities and their families who are involved…

Where do they go? Roy Bergquist reviews centrally funded treatment options for antisocial behaviours in New Zealand youth

Social Work Now, Issue 33, pages 12-15.The treatment of antisocial behaviour in adolescents is a matter for debate in this country. Many of the methods used…

We can work it out: Ashley Seaford examines employee performance appraisals

Social Work Now, Issue 33, pages 16-20.In some work areas machinery and technology contribute to productivity and the attainment of organisational objectives, but in human service…

Cyberspace and young people: Barbara Staniforth, Elizabeth Butterfield and John Fenaughty detail recent developments in technology and their potential impact on children, young people and their families

Social Work Now, Issue 33, pages 4-11.Technology is changing society at an increasing pace and social work has made good use of advances in technology in…

Approaches and Interventions for Sickness Benefit and Invalids Benefit Clients- SBIB International Literature Review

This report presents the findings and conclusions from an international literature review that identifies programmes used by other government and social agencies to facilitate moving beneficiaries…

Elder Abuse and/or Neglect: A Literature Review

This report reviews current literature on elder abuse and/or neglect on both an international and a national scale. The aim is to document what is known…

New Zealand Living Standards 2004

The Social Report 2006

The Social Report has four key aims: to report on social indicators that complement existing economic and environmental indicators; to compare New Zealand with other countries;…

Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience

This report describes the main findings of the Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience Study. The study examined whether early childhood centres were perceived by participants…

Working on the frontline: Sue Lightfoot discusses the impacts of secondary traumatic stress

Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 28-32.There has been increasing attention over the past several years to the effects on staff of working in emergency situations,…