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Wavehill Secures Small Workplace Health Award
Wavehill were pleased to be presented with an inaugural Small Workplace Health Award recently by the national director for work and health, Dame Professor Carol Black.
The award is the new national mark of quality for health and well-being in the workplace, for businesses and organisations employing fewer than 50 people .
Wavehill’s Work for Big Lottery Fund Highlighted
Wavehill’s work evaluating the BIG Lottery’s People and Places programme was recently highlighted in an ‘evaluation lessons’ section of Regeneration & Renewal magazine.
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Wavehill has recently been selected for inclusion on the Learning & Skills Improvement Service Consultancy Research and Development Framework.
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) came into operation on the 1st October 2008 as the new-sector led improvement body for the further education system in England. It was formed from the transfer of the businesses of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL). LSIS’s role is to work with the sector to support quality improvement, raise standards, and develop staff and leaders.
LSIS works through commissioning products and / or services - to be provided by 'supplier' organisations - designed to support quality improvement across the FE system ('the sector').
Please visit http://www.lsis.org.uk/LSISHome.aspx for more information.
Paper co-authored by Wavehill Senior Consultant, Andrew Davies on Welsh children’s views on Government and participation is published.
A paper based on research to explore aspects of children in Wales’ views on government and participation in Wales co-authored by Wavehill’s Andrew Davies has recently been published. The research was conducted in 2001 with 105 children aged 8-11 from a diverse sample of six school across Wales. The article first reports the children’s perspectives on different levels (and places) of government: the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Second, there is discussion of how the children see government as affecting their lives. Subsequently, the paper presents the children’s views on the extent to which they should have a say in local and national political decisions, the examples being the building of a new road in their community and going to war. The children, while declaring a lack of interest in politics in general, in fact engaged enthusiastically in discussion of specific issues that they saw affecting their lives. There was a general expectation that they should be consulted on issues that affect them directly and they saw the potential for their views to be fed into decision-making via intermediaries. Very few, however expected their own views to be decisive, but rather most believed that their views ought to be considered alongside others.