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The Implementation of the NDIS: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Get PDFThe National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a major paradigm shift in funding and support for people with disability in Australia. It is a person centered model that has at its core a change in government funding away from service providers direct to individuals with disability. In principle it is heralded as a major step forward in disability rights. Nonetheless, the implementation poses threats as well as benefits. This paper outlines potential threats or risks from the perspective of not-for-profit organisations, workers in the sector and most importantly people with disability. Â It draws on a range of recent reports on the sector, person centered models of funding and care, the NDIS and past experience. Its purpose is to forewarn the major issues so that implementers can be forearmed.
Do Managerial Economics Textbooks Cover Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility?
Get PDFThe topic of ethics has increased in importance in the business school curriculum in recent years. Highly publicised ethical scandals at corporations such as Enron, Arthur Anderson, and Tyco International, along with public alarm in response to accounts of environmental degradation, child labour abuses, and financial inequities, have heightened awareness of ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in all business contexts. Although many colleges and universities have stand-alone graduate and undergraduate level business ethics and CSR courses, business and economics faculty are increasingly encouraged to address topics of ethics and CSR in courses throughout the business curriculum. This review addresses whether current managerial economics textbooks include discussion of ethics and CSR.
Employers skill survey : case study : health and social care
Get PDF"This report examines the relationship between service delivery strategies and processes, and the
deployment of skills, recruitment problems and skill gaps within selected sub-sectors of health and
social care. The sub-sectors within health are physiotherapy and radiography. Within social care
the focus is on care of the elderly (both residential and domiciliary care).
Although subject to similar drivers and associated pressures, the two sub-sectors of health and social
care display markedly different characteristics, particularly in terms of service delivery strategies,
qualification frameworks and utilisation of skills. In simple terms, the health and social care subsectors
considered within this report may be thought of as being situated at opposite poles of the ‘skills spectrum’: with radiography and physiotherapy characterised by high level skills, while care of the elderly is traditionally associated with low level skills. Hence, the two sub-sectors are discussed separately throughout this report. The greater complexity and range of skills required in the two health sub-sectors is reflected in the comparative length of the two sections of the report" - page 9
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