Judit Csoba, S. Baines, A. Koronaiou, G. Alexias, A. Sakellariou, George Vayias
{"title":"Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece","authors":"Judit Csoba, S. Baines, A. Koronaiou, G. Alexias, A. Sakellariou, George Vayias","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Work Experience for Technical Education Graduates was a programme launched in Greece to provide education, vocational counselling and work experience to people aged up to 29 years who resided in regions of the highest youth unemployment. It was organised and managed by a consortium of social partners established for the purpose. Enterprises were given the opportunity to employ graduates as interns to extend their workforce and to benefit from fresh ideas. The programme was quite a complex one with very limited time available (just under one year). There is some evidence nevertheless of positive effects on various levels although it is too early to assess the numbers and sustainability of new jobs created.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131361085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bassi, Jessica Ozan, C. O’Leary, S. Baines, Gavin Bailey
{"title":"Troubled Families in Greater Manchester","authors":"A. Bassi, Jessica Ozan, C. O’Leary, S. Baines, Gavin Bailey","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reports on ‘Troubled Families’ in Greater Manchester, a sub-regional implementation of a controversial national programme in England intended to offer joined-up services targeted at families representing the highest costs to the public purse. Its underpinning principles include early intervention with children and sustained employment for parents. Troubled Families is innovative in the funding mechanism known as Payment by Results (PbR), under which local authorities are paid partly through submitting data to demonstrate that they have met outcomes. The evidence shows that, to some extent, the programme supported a shift towards service integration in Greater Manchester as intended. A particular success factor was co-produced family plans, taking the families’ perspectives into account. Payment-by-results was welcomed by some senior managers but did not prove very supportive of the desired new and positive relationship between public services, communities, individuals and enterprises.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123978987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Sipos, M. Willoughby, J. Millet-Roig, J. P. García-Sabater, Aida Saez-Mas
{"title":"Social Investment and the causes of energy poverty: are cooperatives a solution?","authors":"F. Sipos, M. Willoughby, J. Millet-Roig, J. P. García-Sabater, Aida Saez-Mas","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is about a successful energy co-operative in Spain. With rising poverty and energy prices among the most expensive in Europe and, the cooperative not only provides a reliable source of clean energy to consumers, but also forms a central part of the community in which it is situated. The case study points to a need for private enterprises to collaborate with local authorities and social services to provide solutions to drastic situations of poverty that are still prevalent, particularly in areas of Southern and Eastern Europe. The Spanish energy cooperative demonstrates one way in which the social economy can help to shape the future of the welfare state in the absence of state funding and in the face of national policies that are not well aligned.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128049350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investing in the future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services system","authors":"A. Bassi, S. Baines","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Taking evidence from three contrasting locations in the region of Emilia Romagna, Bassi demonstrates how high-quality early years provision is achieved through the co-creation and sharing of knowledge, expertise and experiences that are generated by innovative forms of public governance. A key success factor was a strong focus on continuing professional development activities organised in the form of ‘laboratories for social change’ – empowering early years professionals – rather than as top-down training. With regards to the financing of Social Investment, a significant lesson is the success of flexible combinations of different funding sources (public, philanthropic and private enterprise). This case study provides exemplary evidence of diversified provision, serving the needs of children and families within local communities and realised with a special focus on accessibility and economic sustainability.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123386502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revitalising the self-sufficient household economy: the Social Land Programme in Hungary","authors":"Judit Csoba, F. Sipos","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"The authors introduce the Social Land Programmes, Hungary. Social Land Programmes aim to strengthen self-sufficiency and reduce reliance on social aid by helping people with no financial means to engage with small-scale agriculture. The case study investigated eight rural communities participating in a Social Land Programme. Innovative features include bottom up organisation designed and carried out locally (in contrast to top-down public employment programmes in Hungary). For local leaders, producing food and improving living standard are its main points. They also see various other benefits that include improving the social and physical environment and passing on positive role models within the family. However, they consider national goals of increased employment and self-sustainability to be over optimistic.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121949719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Judit Csoba, S. Baines, Nikola Borosch, Danielle Gluns, A. Zimmer
{"title":"Network for the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Münster, Germany (MAMBA)","authors":"Judit Csoba, S. Baines, Nikola Borosch, Danielle Gluns, A. Zimmer","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The Network for the regional labour market integration of asylum seekers and refugees in Münster (MAMBA) was designed by a refugee aid association who coordinate it. It brings together five partner organisations, each providing individual support to participants in its particular field of expertise. The partnership spans the public, private and third sectors, and partners’ goals and priorities are divergent, ranging from the championing of refugee rights to resolving skill shortages in the craft sector. In addition to working intensively with individuals to improve their job prospects, the MAMBA partners attempt to address structural barriers to labour market integration by raising awareness with employers and providing training for Job Centre staff. MAMBA is a success story mainly as a result of intensive, time consuming personal assistance achieved through fruitful cooperation of very different organizations.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123263544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Judit Csoba, S. Baines, Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka, Dorota Moroń
{"title":"Labour market activation and empowerment of the homeless in Poland","authors":"Judit Csoba, S. Baines, Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka, Dorota Moroń","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447347828.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is about activation and empowerment of the homeless in Wroclaw, Poland. Known as ‘Assistance from A to Z’, it concerns a programme intended to equip homeless individuals with competencies and skills to improve self-sufficiency and access the labour market. It is a local project but related to national and EU active inclusion policy and funded through the European Social Fund. An important innovative element is the use of ‘accompaniment’, an idea for intensive individual support that comes from France. In the Polish context, the combined use of a wide range of social and professional support was also innovative. The activation and empowerment of a group of such extremely excluded people as the homeless is demanding and requires intensive, individualised interventions adapted to the needs and capabilities of the beneficiaries. Economic evaluation of this case suggests that it was successful in bringing positive results and was a productive expenditure.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121217697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?","authors":"A. Bassi, S. Baines, Judit Csoba, F. Sipos","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This final chapter draws together lessons from the ten thematic chapters of the book. The authors consider in particular the changing roles and responsibilities of different actors, and the heightened importance of the substantive economy. They also note some emerging evidence of ‘co-creation’, which implies profound changes in relationships between the state and the individual. Social justice rather than economic efficiency was typically the main local driver reported in the chapters. This street level view of Social Investment in practice is consistent with recent scholarly perspectives on it as a tool to enhance human capabilities and not only to increase productivity. The chapter concludes with reflections on the intersection of Social Investment with social innovation and some implications for decision makers and for front-line practitioners tasked with implementation.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129987556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}