This paper describes a six-year large scale implementation of the Signs of Safety practise framework in a complex statutory child protection context in Western Australia. The case study documents both the practitioner-led and organisational-led implementation journey as part of the State's child...

The wide success of Business Excellence Models (BEM) and their associated National Quality Awards(NQA) such as the Deming Prize (DP), the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), and theEuropean Quality Award (EQA), has encouraged many other countries to develop their own quality...

A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living and health, relatively little work has...