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Ahead of Ofsted inspections of supported accommodation for care leavers, Jo Stephenson looks at how consultation has helped shape the new regime and what providers can do now to prepare

Artículo para la "International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation" que está desarrollando en un proyecto internacional el Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE), de la Universidad de Buffalo, y el Laboratoire d'informatique et de terminologie de la réadaptation et de l'intégation sociale (LITRIS), del Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec (IRDPQ). ; In this article we will try to show an overview of what is Supported Employment. We will provide a general vision of this tool for integration into open employment for people with disabilities and other social disadvantage groups. For this proposal the origin and definitions will be reviewed, after which the characteristics and philosophy, and the evolution of the model will be discussed. Although practices may differ among disability groups or countries, some core practices are clearly defined. In this sense will will show the international approach proposed by the European Union of Supported Employment (EUSE) and the fundamental elements that could be considered. Finally some critical questions will be discussed.

There is a widespread perception that the market is failing to ensure the provision of high quality, impactful journalism, especially investigative work and in‐depth coverage of governmental and international affairs. One answer to that market failing has been the development of philanthropy‐supported journalism. Some writers see this as a potentially important, if partial, solution to journalism's problems, strengthening the editorial focus on creating social and policy impacts. Others have expressed concern that philanthropic support draws journalists toward elite orientations, with both funders themselves and their desired audiences representing the socioeconomic upper tiers.

Main description: Dieses Buch bietet eine breit gefächerte Einführung in die Bereiche Computer Supported Cooperative Work (kurz CSCW – "Rechnergestützte Gruppenarbeit") und Groupware und wendet sich einerseits an Leser aus der Wissenschaft und andererseits an Praktiker unterschiedlicher Bereiche wie Informatik, Soziologie und Psychologie. CSCW dient dazu, soziale Interaktion zu verstehen und technische Systeme (Groupware) zur Unterstützung der sozialen Interaktion zwischen Benutzern zu entwerfen und zu evaluieren. Dieses Buch will den zweigleisigen Austausch zwischen CSCW-Forschung in der Wissenschaft und der CSCW-Entwicklung in der Praxis unterstützen.

Providing employment-related services, including supported employment through job coaches, has been a priority in federal policy since the enactment of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act in 1984. We take advantage of a unique panel data set of all clients served by the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs between 1999 and 2005 to investigate whether job coaching leads to stable employment in community settings. The data contain information on individual characteristics, such as IQ and the presence of emotional and behavioral problems, that are likely to affect both employment propensity and likelihood of receiving job coaching. Our results show that unobserved individual characteristics and endogeneity strongly bias naive estimates of the effects of job coaching. However, even after correcting for these biases, an economically and statistically significant treatment effect remains. [Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.]