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Māori Worldviews and Broadcasting Standards: What Should Be the Relationship?

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has written this paper in order to provide a platform for discussion surrounding the relationship between broadcasting standards and Maori worldviews…

Paraprofessional Practice in ESOL Programmes: Part 1: Description and evaluation of paraprofessional practices in supporting initial reading programmes

This document reports on the first part of a two year study on the practices of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) paraprofessionals working with…

A Focus on Science Achievement

This paper summarises data on engagement and achievement in science across primary and secondary schools. This information has been collated across national and international studies undertaken…

Connected Health ICT Research 2009

From 2007 to 2009, the Ministry of Health commissioned qualitative and quantitative research studies of the health sector’s ICT usage and requirements – the most extensive…

Working with young people

Social Work Now, Issue 42, pages 5-11. Working with young people is tremendously rewarding. Few professional areas of social work provide the kind of practice potential…

Improving interventions to reduce violent offending by young people in New Zealand

Social Work Now, Issue 42, pages 18-23. Young people who commit violent offences damage their victims, the community, their families and themselves. This article summarises work…

Using a Framework of Māori Models for Health to Promote Health for Māori

Keeping Up to Date’ aims to increase awareness of the reasons to use evidence in practice, to stimulate debate about evidence, and to encourage the health…

Supporting the rights of young people in youth justice: An analysis of cross-sectoral responses

Social Work Now, Issue 42, pages 24-29. The topic of human rights, particularly the rights of people who commit offences against others, generates intense and sometimes…

A balanced approach to youth justice: Strengths-based practice, appreciative inquiry and the group consult tool

Social Work Now, Issue 27, pages 30-36. Youth justice practitioners are well aware of a tension between practice approaches that elicit strengths and resources of young…

Refugee Resettlement: A literature review

This international literature review on refugee resettlement policy, completed in November 2007, provides part of the information platform for progressing a multi-year, cross-departmental research project being…