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2010

A Social Enterprise Approach to Reinvigorating the Provision of Community Social Work Services in the UK: Wednesday 3 March 2010

Presented by Professor Peter Marsh, Chair in Child and Family Welfare at the University of Sheffield, UK

Despite widespread investment, and major reforms, social services in the UK continue to be inefficient, limited in innovation, and relatively ineffective. A recent solution to these problems has been seen in the development of 'social enterprise' (businesses with a social purpose, which run at a profit which is reinvested in the services themselves). New 'social work practices', where social workers create their own professional partnership, as a social enterprise, will deliver comprehensive services to around 100 children looked after by the state. This project is designed to reinvigorate professional social work in children's services, and to provide more innovative, effective and efficient social services. The first pilot practice began in December 2009. The seminar describes the rationale and development of this model.

Professor Marsh holds a chair in Child and Family Welfare at the University of Sheffield, and is Academic Director of Enterprise. He was Deputy Chair of the Government Working Group which proposed social work practices, and is currently a member of the Department of Children, Schools and Families Expert Group which is advising about the development and evaluation of the project. His research, over the past 30 years, has primarily been on partnership based approaches to social work, including major studies of Family Group Conferences.

Mediasite presentation: A Social Enterprise Approach to Reinvigorating the Provision of Community Social Work Services
Duration: 00:45:17

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Symposium on the 2009 Report of the Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce and the Proposed Regulatory Responsibility Bill: Tuesday 16 February 2010

The Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce report, and its recommended Regulatory Responsibility Bill, proposes major constitutional changes in the way legislation and regulations are promulgated in New Zealand. The Institute of Policy Studies held a one-day symposium to advance public debate on the Bill. The morning covered, from a wide range of viewpoints, the legal and constitutional issues. In the afternoon, critics of the neoliberal approach were invited to reflect on alternative ways of improving the quality of legislation and regulation in New Zealand.

Morning session: Key Legal and Constitutional Themes; Property Rights and "Takings"

Chair: Sir Geoffrey Palmer

Afternoon session: The Political Economy of Constitutional Reform and Deregulation

Chair: Jonathan Boston

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Workshop on Clean Technologies: Monday 8 February 2010

In conjunction with the British High Commission and the Institute of Policy Studies, HSBC hosted a visiting UK delegation working on aspects of clean technology. Presentations are available to download:

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Book Launch of Onward with Executive Power - Lessons from New Zealand 1947-57 by Harshan Kumarashingham: Wednesday 10 February

His Excellency Mr George Fergusson, the British High Commissioner launched the first IPS publication of the 2010. Further details including purchasing information are available on our publications page.