Principles of Good Practice - AFF

Principles of good governance and an ethical code of conduct are crucial for ensuring that structures of accountability and transparency are core strengths of our nonprofit community. These guiding principles afford organizations the support they need to pursue their various callings and the flexibility they need to adapt to the changing needs of their communities and their fields of endeavor

HEALTHWATCH INVESTIGATIONS: Developing good practice

Investigating issues and concerns raised by service users, carers, patients and the wider public and getting feedback, is core business for local Healthwatch. This is an extremely challenging role. Local Healthwatch are small organisations who are charged with influencing large organisations and local health systems. In order to be successful local Healthwatch have to provide an analysis of the experiences of the public in a way that is credible and understandable to large organisations who will have much greater analytical and professional expertise and who may feel (rightly or wrongly) that they have a better grasp on what the challenges are and ‘what needs to be done’ than a local Healthwatch! This report summarises some of the thinking and practice that has emerged from work that has been led by Health Together1 and involved Healthwatch Leeds, Healthwatch Wakefield and other local Healthwatch in West Yorkshire - Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees - as well as a briefing session facilitated by Involve Yorkshire and Humber which was attended by a further six Yorkshire and Humber Healthwatch

Good practice? invest in a framework!

M any reports on major national initiatives like the Crime Reduction Programme acknowledge ‘implementation failure’. Common explanations are ‘poor project-management skills’,or ‘short-term funding regimes’. Important as these are,Heraclitus’excellent Soapbox article (‘Good Practice - What’s it all about?’ Network News,Winter 2005) also blamed ‘dumbing down.’ Higher echelons in crime prevention often believe ‘The only information you can hope to get into practitioners’heads is a slogan or two,if lucky.’ I totally disagree. Crime prevention’s basic idea is simple (cutting the cause cuts the risk),but its practice is complex

Examples of Good Practice in Engagement

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.V_examples_of_good_practice_in_engagement.pdf: 105 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020