Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Policing and the Search for Continuous Improvement (127)
High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations. For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes.
Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Home Care for Older People (130)
High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations. For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes.
Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: End of Life Care in Hospitals (131)
High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations. For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes.
Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Disabililty Services (132)
High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations. For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes.
Promoting Economic Recovery and Employment in Ireland (125)
Austerity on its own will not be enough, additional policy initiatives are needed to promote economic growth and employment. The search for practical measures must be relentless and must engage the entire policy system and all economic and social organisations. The Irish National Economic and Social Council, today, argue that current policies will not, on their own or as currently designed, be sufficient to promote an acceptable recovery of the economy and employment.
Draft Framework for Sustainable Development for Ireland: NESC Response (126)
The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (DECLG) presented its Draft Framework for Sustainable Development for Ireland (FSDI) for consideration by the NESC Council at the December 2011 meeting.The Councils discussion of the FSDI, in December 2011 and January 2012, brought to the fore a range of issues. This report does not outline in any detail the specific comments of Council members. Instead, the Councils focus here is on the characteristic of the FSDI that has prompted many of members concerns and questions, namely the encompassing nature of the FSDI. Paradoxically, this feature is also seen by the Council as one of the key strengths of the FSDI.
Achieving Quality in Ireland's Human Services - a Synthesis Report(133)
High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations. For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes.
Each year, the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands adopts a new work programme based on the annual letter it receives from the Dutch Government. The letter lists the most important policy proposals on which the Government intends to seek the Council's advice in the year ahead. In addition to the Government, the Upper and Lower Chambers of the Dutch Parliament may also request the Council's advice. The Council may also receive unanticipated requests for advice. Finally, given the Council's role as an agenda-setting body and discussion platform, it may decide to issue advisory reports or to develop other activities on its own initiative.This work programme contains selected entries. It is clear from this list that the European dimension is an important component of the Council's advice.
Advisory report 2011/10: Development through sustainable enterprise (abstract)
A mature private sector is a critical factor for countries wishing to take advantage of globalisation. Effective economic cooperation with developing countries should therefore focus on promoting local enterprise as the driver of sustainable growth and decent work, including the enabling environment. Through international corporate social responsibility Dutch companies can make a significant contribution to sustainable growth in developing countries, in close cooperation with the social partners and civil society organisations. Specific measures implemented within the context of development cooperation policy can increase the impact of this contribution. In this advisory report, the Social and Economic Council discusses these measures. It prepared the report in response to a request for advice from the Dutch Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation.
Advisory report 2011/07 : Strategic Agenda for Higher Education, Research, and Science Policy
The SER is advocating greater differentiation in higher education in order to serve students and the labour market more effectively. This requires a varied and efficient range of study programmes, including the associate degree (two-year higher professional qualification) and more opportunities to achieve excellence at universities of applied sciences and research universities. By contrast, fragmentation of the supply of courses must be reduced.