Direct Provision in UK Law
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‘We Don't do Measure and Quotes’: How Agency Responses Criminalise and Endanger the Safety of Children Missing in Care in New South Wales, Australia
This article presents qualitative data from interviews with 46 welfare and justice professionals to examine the criminalisation of children who go missing within the Out‐Of‐Home‐Care (OOHC) residen...
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Regulation
In the quarter-century that Social & Legal Studies has been published, regulation has emerged as a new, and for many exciting, interdisciplinary field. The concept itself requires a wider view ......... is seen as having emerged with the with-drawal by governments from direct provision of many economic and social services, tobe replaced by ......
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Assessing the management costs of delivering services under alternative institutional arrangements
In this paper we assess the management costs of delivering services under alternative institutional arrangements. We develop an analytic framework based on transaction cost and public sector networ......... from a survey of refuse collection managers in Ohio indicate that direct service provision carries higher management costs, though when combined ......
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DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: THE CURIOUS CASE OF FLEMISH SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
This article questions the negative outlook on the democratic accountability in public–private partnerships (PPPs). It challenges this widely held perception in the literature with the empirical fi......... accountability in the PPP variant of school infrastructure than in direct public provision, and there are reasons to argue that this also means ......
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Modern Concepts of Quality and Risk
This article is about the complex interplay between quality and risk in the context of care for older people in Scotland. We review relevant theoretical literature underpinning the concept of ‘qual......... of older people; intense press scrutiny; private care home provision; and, healthcare professionals increasingly shifting focus from generic ... with a unified set of care principles and quality themes that make direct provision for the management of risk. While this is of specific relevance ......
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Public Choice Theory and the Reform of Local Government in Britain: From Government to Governance
This paper describes and analyses current and ongoing reforms of British local government in a public choice framework. These involve a shift from a vertically-integrated corporate institutional fo......... from a vertically-integrated corporate institutional form of direct service provision by British local government to one of an ......
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Internal markets in the public sector: the case of the British National Health Service
This article discusses the application of internal markets to the publicly financed British National Health Service (NHS). The objective of internal markets is to obtain, through the stimulus of co......... to consumer needs than would be obtained through continued direct government provision. There have been real advances in the NHS ......
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The Strasbourg Court and Indirect Race Discrimination: Going Beyond the Education Domain
Prohibiting indirect discrimination has been hailed as guaranteeing substantive equality by addressing issues of structural discrimination and inequalities in a way that direct discrimination canno......... issues of structural discrimination and inequalities in a way that direct discrimination cannot and will not. Howev er, Article 14, the ECHR’s ... particular disadvantage compared with other persons, unless that provision, criterion or practice is objectively justified by a legitimate aim and ......
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Failure in Service Delivery by Public-Private Networks: The Case of Flemish Childcare
The involvement of private actors (non-profit and/or for-profit) in public service provision has a lot of consequences and implications not only for users and service providers, but also for govern......... the consequences for the relations within public-private service provision networks, by focusing on the gover- nance regime of childcare in Flanders. ... requiring a two-level steering of the service provision field: a direct steering of individual service providers and the network and/or market ......
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The Prohibition of Propaganda for War in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The prohibition of propaganda for war as set forth in Article 20(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights represents a key provision of international law, albeit one which has......... on Civil and Political Rights represents a key provision of international law, albeitone which has been grossly neglected, both by ...The object of this article is to direct attention towardsa provision which has the potential to play a major role ......
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