and practices of care crfr Workplace policies and practices of care Workplace policies and practices of care are designed to support workers ’ caring responsibilities outside of the workplace as well as their general wellbeing. A previous CRFR briefing (McKie et al 2004) detailed the ‘carescapes ’ framework for evaluating an individual worker’s caring practices. This briefing looks at how the framework can be extended and used to consider workplace policy, services and structures and how these combine to support care.

This short report discusses the findings of a UK survey of parents whose children took their own lives. The research was a collaboration between PAPYRUS, a voluntary organisation which aims to prevent suicide among young people, and the University of Hull. A total of 46 parents completed the survey

as other key atmospheric features that affect the United States, including climate variations associated with major modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (Section 2.3). Global and regional surface temperature trends in reanalysis datasets are broadly consistent with those

�Half of the world’s MPI poor people live in South Asia; and just over a quarter in Africa. �People living in MPI poverty may not be income poor. For example, only two-thirds of Niger’s people are income poor, whereas 93 % are poor by the MPI. �Multidimensional poverty varies a lot within countries. In Delhi, India 15 % of people are MPI poor; compared to 81 % in the Indian state of Bihar. �The composition of poverty varies. We found five ‘types ’ of multidimensional poverty among the countries, each of which require different policy responses. �Ethiopia reduced MPI poverty by improving nutrition and water, whereas Bangladesh improved it by sending children to school. Ghana improved several aspects of MPI poverty at once. �Although limited by data, the MPI is robust. 95 % of the rankings do not change if we look at people who are poor in as little as 20 % or as many as 40 % of deprivations.

Canada ranks first among OECD countries in the proportion of adults with a college (tertiary-type 5B) education (24%) and ranks 8th in the proportion of adults with a university (tertiary-type 5A) education (26%). Canada spends USD 20 932 per tertiary student every year – the third-highest amount among OECD countries after Switzerland and the United States. Canadian women have the highest tertiary education attainment rate (55%) for women or men among OECD countries, but men are more likely to be employed (84.7 % vs. 78.5 % for women). Canada continues to be a leader in higher education, with its high attainment rates and its ability to produce a skilled workforce with generally good labour-market outcomes. Nonetheless, data from Education at a Glance 2012 suggest areas for improvement, as Canada’s labour outcomes for young adults show signs that the economic crisis hit this group particularly hard. Canada has one of the largest proportions of tertiary-educated adults among all OECD and G20 countries... Among the 37 OECD and G20 countries with available data, Canada ranks first in the proportion of 25-64 year-olds (51%) with a tertiary education (Table A1.3a). The proportion rises to 56 % for adults aged 25 to 34 (the OECD average is 38%), while for adults aged 55 to 64, the proportion (42%) is almost double the

The combustion of fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the oceans have annually absorbed an equivalent of 20-30 % of the carbon dioxide in fossil-fuel emissions. The present annual uptake by the oceans of approximately 1.8 billion tons of carbon (26 % of global fossil-fuel emissions in 2003) is well constrained, has slightly acidified the oceans and may ultimately affect ocean ecosystems in unpredictable ways. The carbon budgets of ocean margins (coastal regions) are not as well-characterized due to lack of observations coupled with complexity and highly localized geographic variability. Existing data are insufficient, for example, to estimate the amount of carbon derived from human activity stored in the coastal regions of North America or to predict future scenarios. New air-sea carbon flux observations reveal that on average, waters within about 100 km (60 miles) of the shores surrounding North America are neither a source nor a sink of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. A small net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere of 19 million tons of carbon per year (with large uncertainty) is estimated mostly from waters around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. This is equivalent to about 1 % of the global ocean uptake. With the exception of one or two time-series sites, almost nothing is known about historical trends in airsea

Numerous studies have measured the economic impact of increased consumption of locally grown foods. As many advocates have set goals for increasing consumption of locally grown foods to a specific percentage, the missing piece of information is, what is the current percentage of locally grown food being consumed in a given city, state or region. To date, no credible set of methods has been used to measure the percentage of food consumption that is locally grown. In this paper, we apply previously developed methods to measure how much food is currently eaten and would be eaten if USDA Dietary Guidelines were followed. We also propose a set of methods to measure how much of current food consumption currently comes from Vermont. The methods include a set of interviews and surveys of major food buyers and distributors, triangulated with USDA data to scale up results to statewide levels. The methods will be vetted by a team of national experts and be tested in a Vermont pilot study, refined, and finally made available to scholars nationwide for replication. Results will inform changes to current systems which will facilitate future efforts to track local food consumption. • A local seasonal diet based on USDA Dietary Guidelines would create more revenue than a local seasonal diet based on current consumption patterns. • Despite wide interest in the results, we know of no credible method to measure current consumption of local food on a statewide level. We intend to develop and implement such a study with the guidance of a nationwide team of experts.

Entry rates for higher education increased after Italy introduced a new degree structure in the early 2000s. While university-level attainment still remains below the OECD average, the gap for younger generations of Italians is expected to narrow over the next decade. Women have made notable progress in higher education in Italy. More than one in five 15-29 year-olds in Italy are neither in education nor employed, and many children of parents with low levels of education are caught in a low-education trap. Italy allocates a large share of educational expenditures to support pre-primary and primary students. Private expenditure on education increased more than public expenditure in recent years. ITALY – Country Note – Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators Entry rates into higher education increased after Italy introduced a new degree structure in the early 2000s, but attainment rates remain below the OECD average. The proportion of young people in Italy who can expect to enter university-level higher education programmes over their lifetime increased from 39 % in 2000 to 49 % in 2010 (Table C3.3), and the proportion of young people expected to graduate from such programmes over their lifetime increased even faster, from

Women in their Fifties: well-being, ageing and anticipation of ageing Concern about ageing western societies has led to an increase in research into later adulthood and old age. In the UK, however, there have been relatively few studies of women’s experiences of mid-life. Women at mid-life are affected by a range of issues and are more likely to be in paid work and to be facing separation and divorce than previous generations. This briefing paper reports on a small qualitative study which explored the everyday experiences of women aged 50-59 – a topic area in which there has been little previous research. The study focused on the opportunities and challenges facing fifty-something women in a range of different social and economic circumstances.

entrepreneurs ’ has economic and environmental impact on Sumatra. 2. About half of the fire ‘hot spots ’ in Riau province occur on land with an active permit for large-scale operations (industrial timber, oil palm and logging); the rest occur outside permitted areas for land-use conversion. 3. Hot spots are concentrated on the deepest peat soil, in areas that already were deforested before 2010. 4. On mineral soils, hot spots are most frequent in logged-over forests. 5. The hot spots are concentrated in three districts. The pattern points to large differences in governance within the province. Sufficient real-time data is now available for government agencies to act but data confidentiality still limits public discourse.