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Stealing the skills agenda?: devolution, business and post-16 education and training in Wales
- Authors:
- PHELPS N. A., VALLER D. C., WOOD A.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 33(4), October 2005, pp.559-579.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article considers the role of business interests within the devolved political and governmental arrangements introduced by New Labour. We focus on the involvement of business in shaping post-16 education and training policy in Wales. Continuities apparent in the process of devolution across its administrative and political forms have produced a distinctive Welsh political economy involving public sector-dominated policy agendas periodically punctured by specific business interests. Devolution appears to have underlined such continuities. An increased imperviousness of public sector-dominated post-16 education and training strategy-making to business interests coexists with the ability of specific business interests to distort such strategies at an operational level.
What's the deal?
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.01, 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's New Deal for Disabled People pilots were part of its wider strategy to enable disabled people to gain employment. The author reports on how the pilots don't necessarily lead to a full strategy, and not all disabled people felt they will enjoy the benefits.
Activation in social work with social assistance claimants in four Swedish municipalities
- Author:
- NYBORN Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 14(3), 2011, pp.339-361.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Social policies across the OECD countries have increasingly emphasised ‘activation’ as a tool for supporting social assistance (SA) claimants’ integration into work. Activation policies stress the obligations of SA claimants to participate in programmes that are intended to increase their chances of finding work. The purpose of this paper is to explore the practice of activation with SA claimants in 4 Swedish municipalities. Two diverging models of activation constitute the framework of the analysis: the Labour Market Attachment model focuses on quick job entry to any job; and the Human Resource Development model focuses on claimants' resources and involves education and skills-training. The study involved interviews with social workers in charge of a random sample of 372 SA claimants' cases. The interviews included questions about the SA claimants’ participation in activation programmes over the previous year. The findings suggest that the extent of activation varied significantly between municipalities, from 20% to 60%. There was no distinct alignment toward the Labour Market Attachment or Human Resource Development models in the municipalities' activation. Irrespective of work- or resource-orientation in the activation programmes, participation was for the most part obligatory and the participants faced sanctions for non-compliance.
A North-South divide among adult learners in Europe
- Author:
- SERGEANT Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 12(9), May 2001, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Compares Norway, Great Britain and Spain in terms of motivation for, and barriers to, participation in adult learning.
Time to raise standards
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
How should the national strategy for people with learning difficulties, now being drafted by the Department of Health, being judged when it arrives? Eight areas in which it needs to offer concrete proposals are suggested.
Progress at the training organisation for personal social services
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Registered Homes and Services, 3(5), September 1998, pp.74-75.
The Training Organisation for Personal Social Services (TOPSS) received Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) recognition in June 1998. Discusses developments so far and looks at progress in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
'Social Partnerships', the market and trade-union involvement in training: Britain and Germany compared
- Author:
- UPCHURCH Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 7(3), August 1997, pp.191-208.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article assesses the core philosophies and approaches of Britain and Germany towards market and trade-union involvement in training.
College reflections on practice theory
- Author:
- ELLIOTT Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 14(3), 1995, pp.5-24.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Argues in favour of the legitimacy of both theories of practice and practice theories. A cross-fertilisation between them serves to produce core concepts of good practice, which stand as an essential reference point for practitioners. The first principles are a necessary bulwark against social work's imposing, oppressing and coercing tendencies. All three tendencies are examined: the imposing in terms of positivist practice traditions, the oppressing in terms of racism and coercing in terms of recent policy and legislative developments in the probation service. Concludes by finding in probation a strong social work core philosophy which, to date, is sustaining a professional integrity in the service's response to the new legislation.
Home for good: making homes fit for community care
- Authors:
- BRADFORD Ian, MARES Penny, WILKINS Nicky
- Publisher:
- Care and Repair
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Pack which aims to make housing a manageable issue for policy makers, practitioners and trainers, who have responsibilities for the delivery of community care. In 3 sections: policy briefings; practitioner's guide; and trainer's guide.
The new class? Managerialism and social work education and training
- Author:
- BREWSTER Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Issues in Social Work Education, 11(2), Spring 1992, pp.81-93.
- Publisher:
- Association of Teachers in Social Work Education
Proposes that the emergence of 'managerialism' as an ideological construct and a plan of action is firmly located in the broad movement described as 'conservative modernisation'. The argument is that a new class of managers has appeared to carry out the policies predicated upon 'modernisation' particularly in the public sector. One aspect of these policies is considered namely their effect upon CCETSW both as an organisation and as a training authority.