New Zealand’s Community Renewal Programme in an International Context: A Literature Review Last Publication Date: 19 Oct 2005 Community Renewal’ is the name given to a social housing urban renewal initiative developed and led by HNZC in New Zealand. The Community Renewal programme is…
A Comparison of Māori and Non-Māori Patient Visits to Doctors Last Publication Date: 02 Oct 2005 The report uses the data on visits by Māori and non-Māori patients at community-based general practices. Information was logged on 6,384 visits by Māori with a…
Towards Accessible, Effective and Resilient After Hours Primary Health Care Services Last Publication Date: 02 Oct 2005 The After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party (the Working Party) made fifteen recommendations aimed at ensuring accessible and effective after hours primary health care services…
Measuring the cost of children: Concepts and methodologies Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005 This Families Commission report reviews some of the main concepts and methodologies in the cost of children literature. It does not attempt to arrive at cost…
Professional Development in Early Childhood Settings: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES) Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005 This synthesis addresses the question of: “What constitutes quality professional development as it relates to learning opportunities, experiences and outcomes for children within diverse early childhood provisions?”…
Home ownership - September 2005 Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 This research explored Pacific people's views of the multi-borrower provision of Housing New Zealand's Mortgage Insurance Scheme, known as the Welcome Home Loan.
Work values and the quality of employment: a literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 This paper reviews the literature on what people value in employment and on methods of measuring the quality of employment, with a view to measuring it…
A kit of their own: the development and production of personal kits for children and young people in care Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 31, pages 12-18. Personal resource kits were developed for children and young people in the custody and/or guardianship of the Chief Executive of…
The story so far: Peter Shaw, Kathy Fielding and Jessie Henderson outline the development of the On TRACC service Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 31, pages 24-27. Since November 2003 the Transcultural Care Centre and Intersectoral Service for Children and Young People from Refugee Backgrounds and Their…
Meeting the challenge: Elements in Reducing and Managing Risk in Social Work Practice Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work now, Issue 31, pages 8-11. In a number of high-profile cases involving the death of a child, it has been revealed that social workers handling…
