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1 – 10 of over 1000This article explains how joint agency services for children with special needs have been operating in Devon for a number of years. The business processes and ICT systems…
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This article explains how joint agency services for children with special needs have been operating in Devon for a number of years. The business processes and ICT systems underpinning the service are described and specific key worker services are explained. The Fair Access to Carers' Breaks model explains how Devon has allocated financial resources to meet individual users' needs. This will be relevant to any authority looking for a transparent means of distributing equitably financial resources such as the additional resources provided by Aiming High for Disabled Children. The article goes on to describe how child and adolescent mental health services were added to the joint agency service and how the choice and partnership approach (CAPA) has virtually removed the waiting list for this service in Devon. The article then describes how further integration of services will be achieved by establishing early response and further response services which will include the Public Health Nursing Service and Education staff.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect that government austerity policies has had on local studies in Devon and suggest a possible alternative means of maintaining…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect that government austerity policies has had on local studies in Devon and suggest a possible alternative means of maintaining local studies’ collections.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents an historical survey of local studies provision in the county since the nineteenth century and outlines the present local studies’ landscape.
Findings
The findings show that local studies’ provision has been severely affected by eight years of progressive cuts to public library funding and that present publications, both printed and digital, are no longer being adequately recorded.
Practical implications
This paper suggests that in Devon, the museum sector may be a more appropriate home for local studies’ library provision than are archive services.
Social implications
Volunteers in libraries, museums and archives across Devon will be involved in maintaining a union catalogue and a bibliography of local publications.
Originality/value
While this is a suggested solution for Devon, it may not be applicable in regions with different traditions of heritage provision.
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Jefrey R. Woodall, Jay A. Azriel and Gerald Patnode
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study about a young entrepreneur who is attempting to build a regional ice cream empire, similar to that of the Good Humor Company…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study about a young entrepreneur who is attempting to build a regional ice cream empire, similar to that of the Good Humor Company in the twentieth century.
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The case was developed through interviews with the owner, and through secondary research articles on this and related topics.
Findings
The case describes the start‐up of York's Best Ice Cream, and the challenges encountered by a young entrepreneur, who is still building business knowledge and financial credibility. After several years, Devon, the owner, has choices to make about if and how to continue the growth of this company.
Originality/value
The case is well suited for use in undergraduate or graduate courses in entrepreneurship, new venture creation, new venture management, entrepreneurial marketing, or marketing courses such as brand development and management.
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Ann Ley, Jane Coleman and Julian Vayne
This article is about North Devon's Adult Learning Forum Pilot Project, which offered a range of interesting and unusual cultural activities to people recovering from mental…
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This article is about North Devon's Adult Learning Forum Pilot Project, which offered a range of interesting and unusual cultural activities to people recovering from mental distress. The Project arose from an innovative partnership between local cultural and leisure agencies and the mental health trust.
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Devon County Council was one of the pilot sites for the Government's Care Direct initiative, a multi‐agency partnership initiative for joined‐up information and help for older…
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Devon County Council was one of the pilot sites for the Government's Care Direct initiative, a multi‐agency partnership initiative for joined‐up information and help for older people. This article describes how the service has developed, the outcomes achieved and the future plans.
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Robert Baldock and David Smallbone
This paper presents findings from recent research undertaken into the characteristics and support needs of ethnic minority owned businesses (EMBs) in Devon and Cornwall. The study…
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This paper presents findings from recent research undertaken into the characteristics and support needs of ethnic minority owned businesses (EMBs) in Devon and Cornwall. The study was commissioned by PROSPER (formerly Devon and Cornwall TEC and Business Link), in collaboration with the Rural Race Equality Project in South West England. EMBs have been the subject of growing interest from a variety of sources in recent years, generating considerable debate about their distinctiveness in comparison with other small firms and their needs in terms of public policy. Not surprisingly, perhaps, a great deal of this research has focused on areas where EMBs are concentrated, such as London and Birmingham. In contrast, this research focuses on EMBs in an area which is some distance from the main centres of EMB concentration and where the ethnic minority population is more dispersed, many in a rural context.
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Virginia Pearson and Simon Chant
The organisation of health and social care in Devon including Torbay and Plymouth has developed over the last few years into different organisational structures. This paper aims…
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The organisation of health and social care in Devon including Torbay and Plymouth has developed over the last few years into different organisational structures. This paper aims to compare these different models.
Design/methodology/approach
Routine information and audit data were analysed to explore what was known about the different organisational models in health and social care in Devon.
Findings
There is evidence from these data that more highly integrated models of care have demonstrable benefits for users and for local health and social care economies.
Research limitations/implications
The local organisational models are complex and it is not known whether they are transferable to other settings. The data used in the study are routine data, and therefore, may include confounding factors; the local audit data may be subject to observer error. More research is recommended in this area.
Practical implications
As health and social care services move towards greater integration and the health care market creates different combinations of provider integration, this paper discusses what routine data can tell us about these models of care and what the implications are for both commissioners and providers of health and social care in the future.
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Benefits of health and social care integration are often described by case study and this review using quantitative data adds to the evidence base supporting integration as a way forward.
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This Paper Describes how Devon Social Services is undertaking a major revision of its care management policy in response to greatly increased levels of demand. Devon is attempting…
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This Paper Describes how Devon Social Services is undertaking a major revision of its care management policy in response to greatly increased levels of demand. Devon is attempting to develop a differentiated response that is more efficient and effective for the organisation, and that also gives more control to users and carers over their care arrangements.
To publicise the little known work of Eli Devons (1950) as a source of practical operations management “know how”, collated by an economist but of direct interest to wider academe.
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To publicise the little known work of Eli Devons (1950) as a source of practical operations management “know how”, collated by an economist but of direct interest to wider academe.
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Evaluation of World War II UK aircraft production procedures against published literature and available case studies in operations management.
Findings
Specific and substantial anecdotal evidence suggesting that both bullwhip and learning curve losses were common phenomena waiting to be discovered.
Research limitations/implications
Much of the original evidence is circumstantial but still capable of triangulation because of multiple events pointing to the same causality.
Practical implications
Identifies generic problems and solutions but also pinpoints areas which are applications specific.
Originality/value
The re‐discovery that learning curve and bullwhip phenomena were rife 60 years ago supports the view that knowledge and its exploitation is episodic. Specifically, as soon as the environment returns to normal, so are the lessons learned under duress quickly forgotten.
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Regional development authorities extol the attractions of a move from congested urban areas to the open spaces of the countryside. Less publicised is the conflict which can ensue…
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Regional development authorities extol the attractions of a move from congested urban areas to the open spaces of the countryside. Less publicised is the conflict which can ensue from this ‘re‐location’ drive. Report by Mary Jarratt.