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Interventions and working relationships of voluntary organisations for diabetes self-management: A cross-national study.

Int J Nurs Stud, 2017
Portillo MC, Kennedy A, Todorova E, Regaira E, Wensing M, Foss C, Lionis C, Vassilev I, Goev V, Rogers A.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

‘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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Voluntary & Community Organisations: Not the Third but the First Sector of Integrated Care? [PDF]

International Journal of Integrated Care
Robin Miller, Michelle Nelson, Ivette Fullerton, Felix Gradinger, James Rees, Marianne Saragosa   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Safer recruitment? protecting children, improving practice in residential child care [PDF]

, 2007
In the wake of a number of high-profile cases of the abuse of children and young people in residential child care, there have been repeated calls for the improvement of recruitment and selection of residential child care staff.
Davidson, Jennifer, Kay, Helen, Kendrick, Andrew, Stevens, Irene   +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
doaj   +1 more source

Welsh voluntary sector funding in the post-2010 austerity period

Welsh Economic Review, 2021
The paper examines the funding of Welsh voluntary sector organisations (VSOs), in terms of income source and type, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global economic crisis, seeking to explore marketisation trends. A detailed examination of voluntary sector
Nikos Kapitsinis
doaj   +1 more source

A liberated NHS – but will it lead Health and Social Care together or force them apart? [PDF]

, 2010
This article is based on a leadership seminar held by the National Skills Academy (Social Care) in July 2010 at which delegates representing local authorities, the independent social care sector, voluntary organisations, central government and academia ...
Cox, Brian, Glasby, Jon, Miller , Robin, Trimble, Allison   +3 more
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949

Historical Life Course Studies, 2018
This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949.
Johan Junkka
doaj   +1 more source

Transforming voluntary organisations for professional evaluation into central pillars of national evaluation systems

African Evaluation Journal, 2022
Background: Voluntary organisations for professional evaluation (VOPEs) have proliferated across the African continent, seeking to contribute to building effective national evaluation systems (NESs) that enhance development planning, implementation and ...
Tebogo Fish, Ayabulela Dlakavu, Matodzi Amisi, Steven Masvaure   +3 more
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Disabled people’s organisations and the disability movement: Perspectives from Burkina Faso

African Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: In Burkina Faso, the disability movement is rather weak, both in terms of funding and staffing – its range does not extend far outside the capital city and is largely dependent on international non-governmental organisations (INGOs).
Lara Bezzina
doaj   +1 more source