A new program at the Hamilton Public Library is making on-site social workers available to the public.
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The public’s intensifying needs necessitate an expansion of the library’s role in our communities.
For workers whose wages have fallen behind, the prospect of not having to strike is tantalizing. Buttons on a person in a picket line outside the Toronto District School Board head office in December 2019.
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Trading the right to strike for binding interest arbitration is a minefield for unions.
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Firefighters are ringing the alarm about underfunding that’s potentially putting lives at risk. But can industrial law resolve those deeper issues?
Indonesia’s Communication and Information Minister Johnny G Plate.
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The new Super Apps should not only provide to submit complaints. They also come up with interactive spaces for the public to be involved in designing and supervising government policy.
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The New Zealand government is set to introduce sweeping reforms to the country’s health system. But without changes in how the system is funded, will the reforms achieve their goals?
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The deaths of huge numbers of the elderly in our care homes due to COVID-19 made clear the need to integrate our health and social care services. Here’s what needs to be done.
A person counts Somali shilling notes.
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New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
An elderly citizen receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, in May 2021.
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By scrapping the requirement, the Indonesian government can improve equality of access to basic services and protections that are sorely needed now and in the post-pandemic future.
Residents of Aceh Jaya regency, Aceh, in the middle of data recording for identity cards.
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In Indonesia, village administrations are the closest to the community and in the best position to help citizens.
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Who can see your information and why is it important to take part?
Public participation has been found to increase voluntary cash contributions for the construction of schools in Ugandan sub-counties.
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Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
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Recent survey results show the Australian public is becoming more satisfied with the federal public services.
Residents of the village of Thermi on Lesvos prevent the disembarkation of a boat of refugees and migrants in early March.
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Five years ago, communities in Italy and Greece volunteered to help migrants and refugees. Now that solidarity has disappeared. Why?
Grounded.
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The airline operates almost two in five of the UK’s domestic routes.
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Public and community-owned websites and apps that value morality over profit could revitalise online culture.
A clouded future for local councils.
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Reforms to the way local authorities are funded are probably the most radical – and least discussed – changes made by the Conservative government.
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A recent damning report on probation shows the need to reassess outsourcing by the public sector.
What the ‘credit’ in Universal Credit actually means.
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The concept of Universal Credit reveals something wider about the UK’s current political fixation on debt.
The Transforming Rehabilitation strategy was meant to have charities at the centre of it. But they’ve been pushed to the margins.
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New research shows how the charity sector has been sidelined in the Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
Amber Rudd: under pressure over violent crime.
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The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.