Work–life balance attitudes and practices in British workplaces‚ 2007 About the survey Attitudes to work–life balance Flexible working practices Awareness of legislative changes Working hours Disseminating information on flexible working Commentary References This report is available in electronic format only. Wyattville Road‚ Loughlinstown‚ Dublin 18‚ Ireland. - Tel: (+353 1) 204 31 00 - Fax: 282 42 09 / 282 64 56 e-mail: information@eurofound.europa.eu - website: www.eurofound.europa.eu
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Understanding Good Practice in Workplace Mentoring I am a Watch Manger at Crewe Community Fire Station in Cheshire. I have spent 3 years in Operational Training Group and I am competent in an Operational and training role. I now need to mentor my team and Fire cadets within the organisation. There are also new firefighters that I will mentor‚ our phase two firefighters. Mentoring is one of the important and essential skills for leadership and management. First of all we need to define what Mentoring
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whether it be independent‚ trust‚ non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. All human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms. Article 3 The United Nations is committed to upholding‚ promoting and protecting the human rights of every individual. This commitment stems from the United Nations Charter‚ which reaffirms the faith of the peoples of the world in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person.
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intervention followed the guidelines of two models of community work to facilitate a more organized and informed approach for making our intervention at the Bless the Children Home orphanage practicable. The Community Education model and the Community Development model we found applicable to our community intervention. In addition to these two models we also employed our education of cultural awareness to help us to be more useful to the children in the orphanage‚ i.e. we respected their religious beliefs
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Equality diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people: Alison Brooks Assessment of how own attitude values and behaviour could impact on work with young people and children. 2.3 All those working in the school have a legal duty to protect the rights of children and young people. It is important that you examine your own attitudes and values critically; to consider how these may impact on the way you work with children Rigid and divisive views from adults can be reflected
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Describe a Practice Situation: (Descriptive items to cover: the situation‚ your part in it or the roles of others you observed‚ the outcome‚ and your reactions and feelings during the event or afterward.) Today I observed 2 emergency hearings and a detention hearing. The first hearing was a juvenile sent to detention for trying to commit suicide by hanging himself at his foster home‚ the foster mom had to cut him down‚ he was sent to FMC‚ assessed and then released‚ he was sent to detention
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Social Work Practice Teenage pregnancy is a social issue and is significant to the practice of social work. One of the main goals of social work is to help individuals‚ groups‚ or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal (Benson‚ 2004). It is important for social workers that those of them in practice understand the complexity of teenage pregnancy and the effects it has on the family as a whole. Social workers should
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9.1 Feminist Practice: Karen has demonstrated her depth of understanding Social Work theory and her talent for applying its practice. Karen was able to recognize the situation and view it with a socialist perspective. The initial information of two small children wandering around at night alone‚ pulls at our heart strings and exposes our bias. These biases make us susceptible to formulating rash knee jerk reactions of condemnation. Karen is aware of her biases and has demonstrated the ability to
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secure. I believe that it is important that the resilience in children and young people is supported by friends‚ families and professionals so that they can cope with and thrive when faced with difficult situations. Resilience is a life skill that can help children and young people deal with difficult situations (even in adulthood)‚ give them control over their lives and encourage self-esteem and confidence. The resilience in children and young people can be supported and developed by professionals
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to equality of opportunity and outcome‚ such as discriminatory laws‚ customs‚ practices and institutional processes. It also entails concern with the development of the freedoms of all individuals‚ irrespective of gender; to choose outcomes they have reason to value. It is integral to ideas of educational quality‚ as an education system would lack key dimensions of quality if it was discriminatory or did not develop capabilities in children to work for an education that was personally and socially
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