Sentences with phrase «change in public services»

, Managing change in the public services (pp. 97 - 115).

The 2017 Labour manifesto includes commitments to radical change in public services, economic and social policy.

The analysts crunched both the changes in public service cuts and welfare cuts and on both reached gloomier conclusions than the government.

Not exact matches

His «Common Sense Revolution» in the 1990s slashed spending and pushed ahead with controversial changes to public services that sparked widespread labour unrest and sometimes violent demonstrations.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

The speech lists five key fundamentals that should stand Australia in good stead: a strong institutional framework (including the rule of law, respect for property rights, a well - functioning public administration, and a well - established regulatory system); our people, who are diverse, well educated, have a «can do» mentality and a demonstrated capability for adjusting to change; a large endowment of mineral resources; large tracts of agricultural land and an ability to produce high - quality clean food; and an established services industry with the potential for considerable expansion as average incomes in Asia rise.

And since changes in GDP reflect inflation, population increase and real economic growth, GDP also captures the costs of providing a given level of public services.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Certainly the public is legally able to sell their property without the aid of an agent, just as most people are able to change the oil in their cars without a service station.

A student loan servicer change can also occur if you are participating in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

She should speak out against the climate change denial rampant in opposition circles and talk about the benefits of the carbon tax, the transition to renewable energy and her government's investments in public services and infrastructure.

Harper promised that if any government in Canada decided to privatize a public service, they, or any successor government, will never have the right to change their minds, even if the privatization was an absurd mistake.

Facebook is spelling out in plain English how it collects and uses your data in rewritten versions of its Terms of Service and Data Use Policy, though it's not asking for new rights to collect and use your data or changing any of your old privacy settings.The public has seven days to comment on the changes (though Facebook doesn't promise to adapt or even respond to the feedback) before Facebook will ask all users to consent to the first set of new rules in three years.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness changes have been in the news a lot lately, from President Donald Trump's proposal to end the program for new borrowers to the mishandling of current loans by servicers.

The lab also helps governments to modernize their policies and public services to keep pace with changes in society.

This change — along with a proposal to end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, cut federal work study in half and largely affect income - based student loan repayment plans — would need to be approved by Congress along with the rest of the proposed budget.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

• We lobby for changes in the law, in Government policy and in the targets set for public services that support families, while paying particular attention to families who are disadvantaged.

Entitled «Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food,» the conference is cosponsored by Let's Talk About Food, the Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic and the Harvard University Dining Services» Food Literacy Project.

23 L.P.R.A. § 43 - 1 directs the Regulations and Permits Administration to adopt regulations, which shall provide that in shopping malls, airports, ports and public service government centers there shall be accessible areas designed for breastfeeding and diaper changing that are not bathrooms.

In a review of U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, interventions to change hospital or WIC policies, including enhanced practices and services, were among the public health approaches found to successfully improve breastfeeding outcomes among minority women (9).

When the public service spending, tax, tax credit and benefit changes are taken into account (ie, everything), the effect on households in 2015/16 is bad news - an average drop of 2.5 %.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

A career change brought Ruth to the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2006 to work on the ESRC's Public Services Programme.

Prof. Colin Talbot is part of a project at University of Cambridge called Brexit Org Gov which is monitoring organisational changes in Government and public services resulting from Brexit.

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Who claims to: «To support democracy and promote public dialogue in a rapidly changing media environment, is a member - supported news service that advocates journalism in the public interest.»

If the effect of these is a fall in the volume of property transactions with a consequential reduction in revenue, there is then less money to spend on public services and it is then hard to see the changes as especially progressive.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also issued a statement, saying that he and Simanowitz «shared a love for our home borough of Queens and a belief in public service as a vehicle for positive change.»

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

The civil service is generally an efficient machine whose professional approach means few suggestions get anywhere unless they are supported by evidence that change must happen and that it is in the public interest.

He said change must come from within the public services themselves, and called on ministers to back officials in experimenting with new ways of working - however, he rejected suggestions that the government had been using officials as scapegoats.

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«Working with colleagues in health and other public services we will study the proposals in detail and will be seeking urgent talks with NHS employers and the government on any further changes to the NHS pension.»

«During a year in which the NHS has been focused on internal organisational change, patients and the public have continued to demonstrate increasing enthusiasm for remote and virtual care, with the NHS Direct National Health Service Trust leading the way in providing useful and valued digital services.»

«It is the Conservatives as the progressive force in British politics now who are thinking seriously about how you change the way you deliver public services so you can improve the quality of service delivery even in a period of budget restraint.»

3.15 pm Public Accounts Subject: Responding to changes in jobcentres and National Audit Office Estimates 2013/14 Witness (es): Katie Shaw, Head of Welfare Policy, Citizens Advice; Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions and Neil Couling, Work Services Director, Department for Work and Pensions; Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office and Michael Whitehouse, Chief Operating Officer, National Audit Office.

This seminar will explore just how individuals can use the Human Rights Act to secure improvements in services and how public authorities are using a human rights approach to achieve change.

«We shared a love for our home borough of Queens and a belief in public service as a vehicle for positive change,» said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who noted Simanowitz's religious faith as a guiding principle.

«You look at the largest investment in public services since the second world war, the creation of whole new services like Sure Start, the minimum wage, progress on gay rights, changes on paternity leave, the right to join a union, even things that have been difficult that used to cause me problems in government like the Human Rights Act — that is a massive progressive agenda we have delivered.»

They are among a number of the Windrush generation who have been threatened with deportation by the Home Office or have lost access to public services as a result of Tory changes to immigration policy - despite living legally in the UK for more than 50 years.

The memo also lays out in detail the horsetrading that typically occurs around budget time, as in the area of higher education financing, where Mr. Cuomo has sought broad changes in how public universities procure supplies and services and wants to allow the City University of New York to raise tuition.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

Hein has declined to take a public stance on sales tax agreement except to say that he could support a short - term extension of the current formula, but only if it was linked to substantive changes in how the city and towns deliver services.

The Business Council supports the Executive Budget proposal to change the Public Service Law to give the PSC greater flexibility in its oversight of telephone corporations and streamlines the confirmation of cable franchises.

The change in 2014 to bring in Public Service Enterprise Group to run LIPA's electrical grid has so far brought minimal improvement, the comptroller said.

This is of particular importance in public corruption cases, where the rules changed about five years ago, after the Supreme Court imposed the requirement in honest services fraud cases that the government prove a quid pro quo.

«We do see a climate change signal in the fire seasons we're having,» said Jennifer Jones, a public affairs specialist with the Forest Service's office of fire and aviation management.