549 results in multiple government agencies
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2008
The growth of mediation over the last 20 years has promulgated quantities of literature both pragmatic and theoretical as practitioners and academics have grappled with the…
The Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEaR) was established by Government in 2001. The SPEaR Terms of Reference included a specific function to promote the…
The 2002 Domestic Purposes and Widow’s Benefit reform reshaped the support available to help people receiving these benefits move towards employment and changed the employment-related obligations…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2008
This study describes the employment patterns and work-to-retirement transitions of New Zealanders who were who were born between 1 April 1936 and 31 March 1940 and…
Last Publication Date: 28 Apr 2008
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the use of earnings spells in LEED as a measure of job tenure. The paper was motivated…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2008
The Industry Training Federation (ITF) and the Department of Labour (DoL) have embarked on a joint venture aimed at improving the ability of Industry Training Organisations…
Concerns remain about chronic health problems experienced by former timber workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) when it was used as an anti-sapstain fungicide treatment…
Twenty-three percent of New Zealand’s population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle…
Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 29-37. Place, and its corollary, displacement, lie at the centre of child welfare practice. Child neglect, the issue that more…
Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 15-20. Most social workers, wherever they work, deal with complex life situations in their practice. If situations were not difficult…
