National Evaluation of the children's fund: Summary of key learning points from NECF reports on participation, prevention and multi-agency working - Brief : The Department for Education The Children's Fund (CF) exists to promote multi-agency work in preventative services for children and young people at risk from social exclusion. This five-page NECF brief was commissioned in December 2002 as a response to CF’s progress, with the resulting research set to continue until September 2006. The information highlights points of interest pertinent to the different groups engaged with the Children's Fund, and identifies emerging learning for developing policy and practice. Three strands of the work provided by the Children’s Fund are outlined. These are the assessment of the impact of the Children's Fund on the prevention of social exclusion of young people, an examination of those same processes, and a system of knowledge management which creates a two-way flow of information between the NECF and its stakeholders. The children's fundKey learning points for national policy makersPartnerships as learning systemsNECF: Next steps
Medical Research Council - Home The NHS R&D Forum Website Engineering Policy - Current Issues: UK Focus for Biomedical Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering The The Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering provides a forum through which the principal organisations concerned with biomedical engineering can communicate, debate and jointly act upon issues which affect this area. Objectives To highlight to industry the potential of biomedical engineering for wealth creation To encourage UK manufacturing industry to exploit the opportunities available in biomedical engineering. The panel undertakes a number of specific activities each year in an attempt to meet the above objectives. Activities Each year the panel for Biomedical Engineering undertakes a number of specific activities which contribute to the achievement of its objectives. Contact
DARG Ethical Guidelines - Developing Area Research Group Overview Members of DARG, and Development Geographers more generally, are placed in a particular position of power and responsibility in the work we do in and on the developing world. Most if not all of us routinely and intuitively follow certain ethical principles in the execution of our duties and activities, and thus it may appear unnecessary to specify how we should and should not go about our professional work. The DARG Committee nonetheless hopes that the drawing together of a set of ethical guidelines and, more particularly, the discussion of the ethical principles that underpin them, may be useful both as a tool for future research and as a field for future debate. The following Guidelines are intended as principles to which we should all seek to adhere in our future work. The Ethical Guidelines are available below, or as a PDF document. Broad Principles Permission Most developing countries have formal requirements and procedures governing access by foreign researchers. Risks
Medical product guide Centre of Research: Ethical Campaign MERU | From disabilities to possibilities Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy These guidelines aim to promote and inform good research practice. They are applicable to the wide range of different research positions and methodologies that contribute to the advancement of knowledge and understanding in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. The credibility and public standing of counselling and psychotherapy require that practitioners systematically and continually seek to enhance the quality, effects and safety of their practice on well-founded evidence. Public policy and commercial practice have combined to create a strong expectation that all professions undertake research in order to extend, challenge or transform existing knowledge and practice and as a way of demonstrating accountability for their work. These guidelines are consistent with and should be read alongside the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy .
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