scholarly journals The Gap between Discourse and Budget Reality: A Preliminary Analysis of the UK Coalition Government’s Social Service Policy

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Jie-Eun Cha ◽  
Jae Won Lee ◽  
손정원 ◽  
이수현
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals ‘Med 3’ rock and blues band to Trieste

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
Rod Bale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Medical Certificate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

On a recent visit to the UK, Dr Guiseppe Dell Acqua, a leading exponent of the Italian psychiatric reforms, heard the ‘Med 3’ band play and extended an invitation to visit Trieste and give a concert. ‘Med 3’, the name being an allusion to the medical certificate, were formed in 1992. A Mental Health Week was held in the City of Portsmouth that year. In association with the Arts Connection, a local organisation promoting the arts to a wide audience, and the Portsmouth Care Consortium who were organising the event, artists in many fields ran workshops for mental health service users. Guy and Emma Heape, session musicians, ran a workshop at the Social Service Mental Health Day Centre and it was so successful it led to a band being formed. The band achieved recognition by winning a Mental Health Task Force award in 1993. An invitation to accompany the band to Trieste was readily accepted.

scholarly journals SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty

2021 ◽  
pp. 030631272110625
Author(s):  
Robert Evans
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Epistemic Uncertainty ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Early Action ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Decision Making

This article presents a preliminary analysis of the advice provided by the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) held between 22 January and 23 March 2020 in response to the emerging coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on the published minutes of the group’s meetings, the article examines what was known and not known, the assumptions and working practices that shaped their work, and how this knowledge was reflected in the decisions made by the government. In doing so, the article critically examines what it means for policy making to be ‘led by the science’ when the best available science is provisional and uncertain. Using ideas of ‘externality’ and ‘evidential significance’, the article argues that the apparent desire for high levels of certainty by both scientists and political decision-makers made early action impossible as the data needed were not, and could not be, available in time. This leads to an argument for changes to the institutions that provide scientific advice based on sociologically informed expectations of science in which expert judgement plays a more significant role.

scholarly journals The UK WTC9/11 Evacuation Study: An Overview of the Methodologies Employed and Some Preliminary Analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin R. Galea ◽  
Lynn Hulse ◽  
Rachel Day ◽  
Asim Siddiqui ◽  
Gary Sharp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Psychiatry past and present: do we need history?

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Claire Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
The Uk

Historical evidence can be useful to inform debate about current dilemmas in health service policy. However, concepts of historical analysis may be problematic for doctors, for whom a model of ‘history’ is often based on clinical history-taking: a clinical history aims to explain the present, whereas a historical analysis aims to elucidate the past. This article discusses and illustrates these concepts, and highlights potential pitfalls of poor historical methodology. It also provides pointers about researching the history of psychiatry in the UK and how to contribute historical evidence to health service policy debates today.Declaration of interestNone.

scholarly journals Cybercrime and shifts in opportunities during COVID-19: a preliminary analysis in the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Buil-Gil ◽  
Fernando Miró-Llinares ◽  
Asier Moneva ◽  
Steven Kemp ◽  
Nacho Díaz-Castaño
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Uk

Students in Cities: A Preliminary Analysis of Their Patterns and Effects

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1805-1825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Munro ◽  
Ivan Turok ◽  
Mark Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Unexplained Variation ◽  
Displacement Effects ◽  
Local Work

This paper adds to a growing literature on the impacts of the growth in student numbers in the UK, by focusing explicitly on their spatial residential patterns and impacts on labour markets in cities. It shows that students are typically highly residentially concentrated and statistically the population of students shows a high degree of segregation from nonstudents. Turnover within student neighbourhoods is argued to be sufficiently high to cause significant neighbourhood and community disruption in many cities. Students are also shown to have very distinct labour-market characteristics, being highly concentrated within particular sectors and types of occupation. Here too they have the potential for wider impacts, including displacement effects in relation to other local young people from entry-level jobs and increasing the flexibilisation of working practices. Students are also distinctive in apparently being able to find work if they wish to, although the evidence suggests that this is probably marginally easier in more buoyant labour markets. There is much unexplained variation between cities, though, which suggests the need for more detailed local work.

Social Service Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-115
Author(s):  
Robert Elmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Policy
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