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“Traditionally you would be passing them from pillar to post”: an evaluation exploring the Life Rooms model of partnership working

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background NHS systems are under increasing, unsustainable pressure. In the context of rising demand, limited resources and changing population needs, partnership working across sectors is crucial.
Joanne Worsley, Clare Rotheram, Rhiannon Corcoran   +2 more
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What are the barriers to, and enablers of, working with people with lived experience of mental illness amongst community and voluntary sector organisations? A qualitative study

PLoS ONE, 2020
There is increasing emphasis on psychological and social approaches to managing and treating mental illness, including a growing evidence base on the effectiveness of community-based social interventions including arts and heritage activities, library ...
L. Baxter, D. Fancourt
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Implications of Educational Policy-Making Which Encourages Schools to Collaborate with the Community, External Agencies, Private Companies, Employers and Voluntary Organisations

Social Sciences, 2020
Despite the move to state education, policy-makers since the early 1900s have encouraged the community, external agencies, private companies, employers and voluntary organisations to become involved in schools. The rationales for these collaborations are
Julia Everitt
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The contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care: a mixed-methods study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: Weaknesses in the provision of mental health crisis support are evident and improvements that include voluntary sector provision are promoted.
Karen Newbigging, James Rees, Rebecca Ince, John Mohan, Doreen Joseph, Michael Ashman, Barbara Norden, Ceri Dare, Suzanne Bourke, Benjamin Costello   +9 more
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Frivillige organisationers resocialiserende arbejde i Kriminalforsorgens institutioner

Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2021
Outsourcing in the criminal justice system is experiencing growth in the not-for-profit sector in many Western countries. There is, however, no indication of this trend in the Danish Prison and Probation Service.
Annette Olesen, Anders Brinck Rosenholm
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‘Hoovering up the Money’? : Delivering government-funded capacity-building programmes to voluntary and community organisations [PDF]

, 2008
The 'ChangeUp' and FutureBuilders initiatives have provided substantial funding to support and facilitate 'capacity building' in voluntary and community organisations and so enable them to contribute to the achievement of public and social policy goals ...
Alcock, Backer, Brown, Cairns, Hans Schlappa, James, Judge, Knauft, Letts, Margaret Harris, Pharoah, Skinner, Smillie, Taylor, Treasury, Treasury, Twigg   +16 more
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Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan

VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2023
Extant research has focused on the role of philanthropy in the socio-economic development of western countries, but little is known about the role of indigenous voluntary organisations in bridging social divides in the developing world.
Muhammad Saad Masud Khan, C. Harvey, Michael Price, M. Maclean   +3 more
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Voluntary schizophrenia organisations [PDF]

Psychiatric Bulletin, 1994
I previously reported (O'Shea, 1989, 1992) on the experience of national voluntary Huntington's disease (HD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) organisations. This series of enquiries stemmed from an observation of Black (1988) that the medical profession in general offered little support to voluntary groups, a statement which has been largely supported for ...
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Issues with Voluntary Reporting by Train Drivers and Their Impact on the Railway

Promet (Zagreb), 2023
For organisations to take preventive measures and eliminate potential accidents, the information gained through voluntary reporting is essential. Employees do not, however, report voluntarily for a number of reasons.
İlker Ünder, Kadir Aksay, Omur Akbayir, Umran Under   +3 more
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Public – private partnership

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2011
Public-private partnerships have long been highly valued in Western welfare states, and the valuation of such cooperation has become even stronger in light of last year’s economic turbulence, particularly with voluntary non-profit organizations (VNPOs).
Johans Tveit Sandvin, Frode Bjørgo, Gunn Strand Hutchinson   +2 more
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