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Summaries from research projects

Summaries (including Findings) from our research projects.


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Reference: Title/description: Date:
2309 Develping the use of ’MDS-RAI’ reports for UK care homes
Using an assessment system to raise standards in long-term care homes
21 Nov 2008
2307 Lessons from contracting out welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Neatherlands
A detailed look at the Australian and Dutch ’welfare markets’
20 Nov 2008
2286 A wrong turn in the search for freedom?
Discussion of social evils on a theme of ’individualism’ which asks why we are less happy and why our lives feel more out of control than ever before, despite gaining many individual liberties.
18 Nov 2008
2327 Housing choices and issues for young people in the UK
A review of recent research on the housing choices and issues for young people in the UK.
18 Nov 2008
2287 Individualism and consumerism: reframing the debate
Discussion of socil evils on a theme of ’individualism’ which argues that in the face of selfish individualism and wasteful consumerism, we must rebuild a strong civil society.
18 Nov 2008
2328 Young people’s housing transitions
This study examines issues concerning young people’s transitions into independent living, through the views of young people and practitioners who work with them.
18 Nov 2008
2277 Costs and outcomes of an extra-care housing scheme in Bradford
An assessment of the comparative costs before and after residents moved into an extra-care housing scheme.
17 Nov 2008
2324 Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2008
The 2008 analysis of trends in poverty and social exclusion indicators in Scotland.
10 Nov 2008
2275 What is needed to end child poverty in 2020?
This Round-up focuses on key policy areas relevant to the 2020 target of eradicating UK child poverty, exploring recent progressand suggesting what is needed to meet the target.
10 Nov 2008
2297 Movement of housholds in shared-ownership housing in the UK
A study of how people living in shared-ownership housing in the UK move on to their next property, and the factors that can prevent them from doing so.
7 Nov 2008

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