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YearDateTitleSummarySourceFile size
2007July 4 Free personal care in Scotland - recent developmentsFull report. This report examines the operation of the free personal care policy in Scotland, and considers its impact, problems and limitations.Joseph Rowntree Foundation250kb
2007June 30 Opening the door of the Chinese Healthy Living Centre: Becoming more accessible for physically disabled Chinese adultsThis research was commissioned as an important first step towards identifying practical steps that the CHLC could take to make information, activities and services more accessible to physically disabled people.Chinese Healthy Living Centre379kb
2007June 19 Severe Child Poverty in the UKReport summary. This research is based on a new measure for severe poverty, combining income and material deprivation data from the Family Resources Survey. The reason for this new measure comes from Save the Children’s focus on those in the severest poverty and our belief that a measure that combines household income with deprivation provides a more robust indicator of household living standards than either measure on its own.Save the Children77kb
2007June 19 Severe Child Poverty in the UKFull report. This research is based on a new measure for severe poverty, combining income and material deprivation data from the Family Resources Survey. The reason for this new measure comes from Save the Children’s focus on those in the severest poverty and our belief that a measure that combines household income with deprivation provides a more robust indicator of household living standards than either measure on its own.Save the Children252kb
2007June 18 Speak Up! - The Bullying of Children with Learning DisabilitiesMore than 90% of children with learning disabilities are bullied, according to a report from Enable Scotland.ENABLE Scotland129kb
2007June 14 The UK Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People 2007This report suggests that current adult protection systems are not reaching older people, that medication abuse continues to be a major problem, and that in many cases people are being left in bed, or unwashed, or left without food or access to the toilet. While two thirds of abusers are family members, nearly one tenth are domiciliary care staff. Twenty percent of theft is by domiciliary care staff.Action on Elder Abuse994kb
2007June 13 Project 42 - report on results to dateProject 42 was funded by Drumchapel Life was initiated by COPE with the goal of discovering the barriers to employment and to create an accessible database of local support services for their clients. This report provides an update of the results to dateCOPE79kb
2007June 13 Spotlight on older people in the UKThis report brings to light the issues faced by vulnerable older people: poverty, neglect, ageism and isolation.Help the Aged1.04mb
2007May 31 Smoke-Free Success: ASH Scotland Presents the Scottish ExperienceTo mark World No Tobacco Day 2007, ASH Scotland has published this comprehensive and detailed report which documents Scotland’s successful move to bring in a ban on smoking in public places, the lessons that other countries can learn, and the beginning “of a new and healthier Scotland”.ASH Scotland1.16mb
2007May 31 Fruitful participation - involving people in food and health workThis publication gives a snapshot of how getting people involved in decision-making around food and health issues can be enjoyable, democratic, empower those involved and make a differenceCommunity Food and Health (Scotland)1.27mb

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