The following recommendations are directed at all institutions and individuals who have the responsibility and ability to implement them. This includes government and public sector bodies, as well as the private and charitable sectors. It also includes all of us, who have a responsibility to ensure that racism is confronted wherever it appears, and to act with others to work towards a better society. Some recommendations, however, are more explicitly targeted at public institutions, whose democratic and legal role requires them to address racial
The following recommendations are directed at all institutions and individuals who have the responsibility and ability to implement them. This includes government and public sector bodies, as well as the private and charitable sectors. It also includes all of us, who have a responsibility to ensure that racism is confronted wherever it appears, and to act with others to work towards a better society. Some recommendations, however, are more explicitly targeted at public institutions, whose democratic and legal role requires them to address racial
follow more closely the American example, as Australia has done already. Kevin Foster MP, the current Immigration Minister, has said that ‘when the Life in the UK handbook is next reviewed, the Home Office will consider all feedback on what should be covered in it’. 2 So, let me summarize 20 specific recommendations set across this book to inform how the next fourth edition of the test handbook should be refreshed, revised and relaunched: 3 1. A new Citizenship Advisory Group must be launched. This should be a modest size including experts who have experienced
101 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE 5 Recommendations for policy and practice It would be to ignore the richness of the preceding discussion to try at this stage to draw out a simple set of lessons – to construct a cookbook after the banquet! As we have noted, there are no easy answers when it comes to the leadership and management of inter-agency collaboration. Therefore many of our recommendations have a distinct flavour: the best way to support leaders and managers is often to allow them to take responsibility for finding ways to work through
115 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE 5 Recommendations for policy and practice Ultimately, the evidence, questions, summaries, learning and frameworks set out in this book lead us to make a series of practical recommendations and potential warnings, both for policy and for practice. For policy-makers • There is a need to consider the implications for existing teams and services when they exhort new teams or style of working. Creating new teams in any area will affect existing teams, their working practices and relationships, and may hinder the
105 EVALUATING OUTCOMES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 5 Recommendations for policy and practice Drawing on the questions, summaries and frameworks set out in this book, there are a series of practical recommendations and potential warnings that arise, for both policy and practice. For policy-makers • Given that collaboration takes so many different forms and is driven by different goals, they cannot be expected to deliver the same outcomes. More research is required to establish what kinds of collaborative arrangements can produce which kinds of outcomes, for
99 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE 5 Recommendations for policy and practice Drawing on the questions, summaries and frameworks set out in this book, there are a series of practical recommendations and potential warnings that arise, for both policy and practice. For policy-makers • Governments need to be clearer about what they expect IPE to deliver. IPE can, and should, play a major role in preparing professionals to work collaboratively to the ultimate benefit of service users and carers. But it is no substitute for removing the structural
-Creation, the spaces in which it unfolds and the complex power relations involved in the process. This concluding chapter will reflect on their contributions, seeking to identify key themes and draw out comparisons between the chapters in order to understand the evolving concept of Co-Creation. It will also highlight emerging directions for further research and formulate some recommendations for activists, researchers, artists, and practitioners interested in pursuing Co-Creation initiatives. The aims of Co-Creation The broad scope of areas covered in this volume
339 TWENTY-SIx Policy implications and recommendations: now what? Brian O’Neill and Elisabeth Staksrud introduction In recent years, the policy agenda concerned with children’s use of the internet has assumed an increasingly prominent role, due to sustained efforts on the part of civil society and of various government agencies to raise awareness about the topic. Policy considerations encompass both online opportunities (focused on access to education, communication, information and participation) and the risks of harm posed to children by internet use. In
225 NINE Recommendations: communicative capacity in practice and policy [A] strong democratic community ... creates new avenues for collective judgement and action that transcend the boundaries of conventional communication channels. (Shawn Spano, 2001, p 39) This chapter further develops the conclusion of the previous chapter and translates it into recommendations for practice and policy. It starts by once more making the argument that citizens and public professionals can improve the productivity of their participatory encounters when they learn to
