http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/ en Copyright The University of Adelaide 2008 The University of Adelaide web.services@adelaide.edu.au http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub11943.html DATE: Friday, 15 August 2008 SUMMARY: This report details a Strategic Framework for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide and outlines a range of recommendations that seek to lay the foundations for successful workforce development in the region1. It provides an introduction to the concept of workforce development and identifies key objectives to inform strategic planning. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub11483.html DATE: Thursday, 12 June 2008 SUMMARY: The Strategic Plan (SASP) contains 98 targets `to benchmark or measure our progress over time', and the Government has indicated that these will be assessed and published every two years. However, other than those targets specifically for the Aboriginal population, many do not directly address levels of inequality across the community. This web site provides an analysis of 29 targets (or supplementary measures) from the revised South Australia's Strategic Plan (January 2007), taking an inequality perspective. The intention in presenting the data in this way is to add another dimension to the information already available in the Plan. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub10803.html DATE: Monday, 7 April 2008 SUMMARY: The welfare-to-work policy aims to encourage certain welfare recipients to pursue pathways that lead to paid employment. This report explores the role that the vocational education and training (VET) system can play in assisting people move from welfare to work. The researchers examined the experiences of VET students from the relevant welfare groups and sought the views of other key stakeholders such as TAFE staff and Centrelink personnel. Conclusions include that VET can play a positive role but that there needs to be collaboration between VET and income support sectors to ensure that potential barriers are overcome. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub10405.html DATE: Monday, 18 February 2008 SUMMARY: Since 2003 there has been significant effort by the South Australian government to enhance Aboriginal peoples' employment outcomes in the public sector. Objective 6 of the South Australian Strategic Plan has an accompanying target to increase the employment of Aboriginal employees in the public sector from 1.2% to 2% by 2009. The Don Dunstan Foundation (DDF) allocated funding for a project to identify the factors which are assisting and the factors which are impeding progress towards the achievement of the 2% Target. To download report go to http://www.dunstan.org.au/ http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub9483.html DATE: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 SUMMARY: Despite the substantial amount of research focusing on social inclusion and exclusion, both in Australia and internationally, there are considerable gaps in the literature that limit its utility for policy development purposes.these gaps are addressed by the `Measuring social inclusion and exclusion in Northern Adelaide' Project. This has involved the development of a model that provides a range of indicators of social inclusion and exclusion that enables the measurement of change over time and promotes an increased understanding of the influence of social capital on social inclusion and exclusion. The measures developed are designed to be of use to Government in its planning and implementation of social inclusion initiatives in Northern Adelaide, and more broadly, to inform social inclusion policy development, implementation and evaluation. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub9423.html DATE: Monday, 10 September 2007 SUMMARY: The department's River Murray Water Resources Assessment Report is a new initiative for 2007-08. This fortnightly update includes information about water resource conditions in South Australia and interstate, including information on irrigation allocations and probability of improvement. http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/murray/rivercond/index.html http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub8623.html DATE: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 SUMMARY: The Public Service Association (PSA) represents State public sector workers in South Australia. In addition to its recognised industrial role, the PSA actively promotes the vital role of the public sector in the South Australian economy and community. This State Budget submission is a contribution to the achievement of this objective. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub7603.html DATE: Friday, 12 January 2007 SUMMARY: Social welfare performance indicators do not consider the equity implications of gross and net public expenditure. That is,governments may spend money in a given area to achieve social outcomes but also tax the same community in ways which moderate the effectiveness of social programs. This paper reports on a project that aims to deploy geographical information systems (GIS) to investigate these processes. The equity implications of gross and net public expenditure are considered in a discussion of the development of a process to map the impact of public expenditure on social exclusion. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub7523.html DATE: Friday, 15 December 2006 SUMMARY: Recent studies by Mayer (2003) and Ironmonger (2002) have drawn attention to the social and economic value of social capital accrued from taking part in voluntary activities. This study examines the utilitarian value of social capital accrued from volunteering and membership of civic organisations. It examines data on income and employment from the Northern Adelaide Social Inclusion Survey 2005, a survey of 1999 residents of Gawler, Playford and Salisbury in South Australia. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub7203.html DATE: Tuesday, 31 October 2006 SUMMARY: This report includes an Executive summary, as well as summaries at the national level, and each state and territory. There is also a section which compares responses from Indigenous and non Indigenous young people. Responses are also broken down by gender and age groups and where possible, comparisons are made with responses from the earlier surveys.