...clear to those who worked with children what their duties were and how they should work together in cases of child abuse in Working Together to Safeguard Children 1999. The tragic death of Victoria Climbie at the hands of her carers in 2000 highlighted the dysfunctional way in which services for children were happening. The Laming report of 2003 examined this and produced the green paper/policy Every child matters which in turn instigated extensions to the Children Act 1989 creating the Children Act 2004, all of which support the UNCRC's articles e.g. 19, 32, that give children the right to be protected from harm and to have protection procedures in place that enable care for a child that safeguards their well-being. The Children Act 2004 focuses on: • The integration of children’s services and the introduction of children’s directors with responsibility for local authority education and children’s social services. • Lead councillors for children’s services with political responsibility for local welfare. • The establishment of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB) with statutory powers to ensure that all services work together to protect vulnerable children. • A new Common Assessment Framework to assist agencies in identifying welfare needs. • Revised arrangements for sharing information. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 added an update on safeguarding following the Laming and Bichard Inquires and a national framework to help agencies work together....
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...Agricultural Subsidies and Development In recent decades, rich countries and organizations have taken measures to preserve their agro industry. In many of the largest countries as a measure to stimulate the production, subsidy is made for the proceedings or part of the necessary crops. Nowadays we are faced in a big question: What is the impact of these subsidies on world market prices and the producers do not receive subsidies for their production? There are many opinions from different parts of the world and it is like that because each country has its own point of view and depends how much are they involved in the situation. I will try to distinguish myself and to be objective. I think that if the subsidies were removed overnight the impact on the average consumer and producer will be very bad. Family farmers will be driven into bankruptcy and this will lead to production falls. With less production the market will have risen on food prices and this will reflect directly to the average consumer. Another thing that will probably happen is that big corporation will continue their growth and they will kill smaller farmers with their prices. This will cause no competition in the agriculture and will lead to unfairly high prices. Another important thing that may occur is the lower quality of the products, because every farmer corporation will try to get as much as they can and they will no longer care about the quality because the competition is gone. I think that the benefits...
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...information systems is the subject of this research paper, and if I was to choose one particular issue that interested me the most, it would be Privacy. It personally affected me in the workplace, so this paper will illustrate what I know firsthand. I’ll identify some human and technological protective measures I would use as security safeguards and enforcement actions in order to address the Privacy issue, list some problems related to management information systems that may arise from this issue, and propose at least one solution to address the problem in question. Privacy is the right of individuals to retain certain information about them without disclosure and to have any information collected about them with their consent protected against unauthorized access. In the workplace unfortunately, what we consider private could potentially be the reason for our employment or even our termination. Employers have monitoring systems that can measure performance and determine time spent at desk, and organizations, institutions, and firms can gather personal information and enter it into databases for their personal gain. One protective measure to safeguard my privacy would be to use a “private browsing mode”. That limits the web history kept on the computer, which will prevent others from accessing history data. Another measure would be to use cryptography to hide the content of communications while they stream between the user and the person receiving the communication. There...
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...Internet Controls Vanessa King July 29, 2012 Internal controls are used within an organization to help safeguard assets and enhance the reliability and accuracy of accounting records. I think internal controls are essential for any public company to function. Safeguarding assets includes stopping robbery, employee theft, and unauthorized use and is very important for an organization. Minimizing the risk of unintentional mistakes, or errors as well as intentional mistakes or irregularities within the accounting process is what enhancing the accuracy and reliability means. It is required by law to monitor the different models of internet controls and the main reason for internet controls is so a company can monitor its actions and procedures. Physical safeguards include cameras, physical barriers, locks, and anything else to protect property. IT Security helps ensure that restricted documents are obtained by only authorized personal by using a lock, security code, or an employee ID as identification. I work at home and have to use a password, and a RSA token, which is a six digit number that changes each minute and helps my company make sure that I am the only one logging in because I have my password and the token. The two primary goals of internet controls are to safeguard assets from theft and unauthorized use, and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of company accounting records to avoid errors or irregularities in the accounting process...
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...Abstract This paper will analyze the justification and effectiveness of government subsidies. This paper will discuss an industry that is subsidized by the U.S. government and address the following: why the U.S. government subsidizes the industry, how the subsidy alters the market outcome, who gains and who loses from the government intervention, any beggar-thy-neighbor issues, and why the subsidy is or is not justified. Introduction Many industries rely on government assistance in both good times and bad. “The potential micro and macro failures of the marketplace provide specific justifications for government intervention” (Schiller, 2010). Government interventions “encompass a wide range of regulatory, fiscal, tax, and legal actions that modify the rights and responsibilities of various parties in society. Interventions can increase or decrease costs to particular groups, effectively acting either as a subsidy or as a tax” (Subsidies and Market Interventions, 2013). Since the 1930’s the government’s role has assumed more responsibilities including “maintaining macroeconomic stability, protecting the environment, and safeguarding the public’s health” (Schiller, 2010). Government Intervention A government subsidy is defined as “monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest” (Subsidy, 2013). An example of an industry that is subsidized by the U.S. government is the energy market...
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...Bluefin’s CEO, Richard Sam. During the current year, Shaun and Richard jointly purchased an exclusive holiday home in Brisbane. The holiday home represents more than 10% of Shaun’s personal wealth. Required For the independent situation above, and using the conceptual framework in APES 110, answer the following questions. 1. Identify potential threats to independence & recommend safeguards to reduce the independence threat. 2. Provide an objective assessment of whether audit independence can be achieved. Threat (1) Safeguards (1) Objective Assessment (2) (a) Self-interest threat or intimidation threat: A close business relationship between member of the audit team & its management, arises from a commercial relationship or common financial interest may create self-interest threat or intimidation threat. (APES110.290.124) Per APES110.290.124 if one of the members of the audit team has a material financial interest in a joint venture with an officer who performs senior managerial activity, the threats created would be so significant that no safeguard will be able to reduce it to an acceptable level. So the possible solutions are: The business relationship needs to be terminated. OR It can be reduced to an insignificant level. OR The individual needs to be removed from the Audit team. Shaun, the partner in charge cannot have joint investment in a holiday house with Richard (CEO of Bluefin Ltd). This is...
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...Data-Driven Entertainment/Education Friberger et al. defines data games as “games where gameplay and/or game content is based on real-world data external to the game, and where gameplay supports the exploration of and learning from this data.” They also use a taxonomy to explore the categories of such games. They propose to use open and linked data to procedurally generate game content. One of their examples was Open Trumps based on the popular card game Trumps. The data source for the game content is a UN database of countries and demographics indicators. However, procedural content generation entails some transformation of data into the game content. As the authors caution, we must be careful of transformations that “lead to an unacceptable loss of veracity in relation to the original source.” In our work, the game content is the original data [1, 2, 3]. Moreover, our perspective in this endeavor to foster understanding is general instead of a game focused. Thus, it is from this general point of view that we classify data-driven applications. The figure below illustrates the classification matrix: rows represent data velocity (static or dynamic) and columns the goals of the application. The first type of goals is informational: the application just provides specific information to the user usually through visualization; interaction with the data is minimal. The second type of goal focuses on interaction with the data for sensemaking; applications in this case are usually...
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...award recovery of court cost to any taxpayer who prevails against the United States. The recovery of court cost includes attorneys’ fees and taxpayer’s expert witness fees to the taxpayer(s) when [1] the IRS fails to establish that its position in an administrative or court proceeding was substantially justified and [2] when the taxpayer complies with all of the following 7430’s procedural requirements. It is assumed that the following requirements are pertinent to this case: •The taxpayer did not unduly prolong the litigation •The taxpayer pursued the case through IRS administrative appeals •The taxpayer then “substantially prevailed” in the Tax Court. The taxpayer has the right to request an award of attorneys’ fees and taxpayer’s expert witness fees within 30 days by formal letter or/and at the conclusion of the proceeding; failure to do so will disqualify/ make the taxpayer become ineligible for the award of fees. Based on the information presented above, the taxpayer requested the reimbursement within an adequate amount of time; therefore, the reimbursement should be considered. If the procedural requirements of 7430 are met, the taxpayer may recover a reasonable litigation cost from the United States for the court...
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...Programming paradigm is a fundamental style of computer programming , a way of building the structure and elements of computer programs. There are six main programming paradigms: 1. imperative programming, imperative programming, which is based on procedural languages, literate programming ,which structures programs as a human-centered web, as in a hypertext essay –documentation is integral to the program, and the program is structured following the logic of prose exposition, rather than compiler convenience. 2. declarative programming, declarative programming paradigms were developed. In these languages the computer is told what the problem is, not how to solve the problem – the program is structured as a collection of properties to find in the expected result, not as a procedure to follow. Given a database or a set of rules, the computer tries to find a solution matching all the desired properties. The archetypical example of a declarative language is the fourth generation language SQL, as well as the family of functional languages and logic programming 3. functional programming , Functional programming is a subset of declarative programming. Programs written using this paradigm use functions, blocks of code intended to behave like mathematical functions. Functional languages discourage changes in the value of variables through assignment , making a great deal of use of recursion instead. 4. object-oriented programming , object-oriented languages...
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...less attention to the procedural technicalities at the expense of substantive justice. The objective of this legal paper is to discuss the effect of Article 118 (2) (e) of the constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Act No.2 of 2016 with regards to the delivery of justice in Zambia. To begin with, the paper will first define the various key terms such as substantive justice, justice, procedural law and substantive law. The paper will then differentiate substantive law and procedural law. It will further proceed to discuss the relevance of procedural (legal) technicalities and then later on discuss the problem of courts strictly adhering to the procedural technicalities at the expense of substantive justice. A comprehensive conclusion will then be deducted based on the discussion. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS The term justice basically means fairness in the manner in which justice is administered. It basically entails a moral ideal that the law seeks to uphold with regards to the protection of rights and the mode of punishment imposed on the offenders for the wrongs done. Justice means equality, fairness and equity. Substantive justice means justice that is administered in accordance with the rules of substantive, regardless of any procedural error without affecting the litigant’s substantive right; a fair trial on merit. Substantive law is that part of law that is concerned with establishing the legal rights and duties of the litigants in any suit, whereas procedural law on the other hand...
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...INDEX Contents Introductory Note Court: Definition Functions of Court Environment Court • Definition • Constitution: • Purpose Power and functions of the Environment Court Practical Scenario of the Environment Court Legal loopholes and deficiencies of the Environment Court Act, 2000 Environment related court in other countries of Indian subcontinent: A comparative study • India: The National Environment Tribunal • Pakistan: The Environment Tribunal • Comparative study Recommendations Conclusion Introductory Note Environmental Law is a source and foundation of orderly response to Global and National environmental problems. International Environmental Law is the principal means by which community of nations builds and expresses international consensus on environment and development challenges. National Environmental Law is the most effective instrument for translating environment and development policies into action. Judiciary is a key mechanism for ensuring legal effectiveness of environmental law. A judiciary well informed of the rapidly expanding environmental law, can play a critical role: in interpretation, development and enforcement of environmental law, enforcing environmental rights, public access to judicial procedures, exchange of judgments, sharing information on environmental law, policy and environmental jurisprudence. The purpose of this assignment is to focus on the function of the Environment Courts of Bangladesh established...
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...Semantic memory itself has been discussed extensively in the psychological literature. Specifically, it refers to particular memories that focus on meanings, understandings, and concepts. Unlike episodic memory, semantic memory focuses on things that are not specific to particular experiences. In other words, semantic memory would not include remembering what a person ate the previous day or what clothes someone was wearing. Instead, semantic memory would include things like remembering that dogs are animals and that desks are inanimate objects. These are both general, overarching concepts that people store in their semantic memory. On a larger scale, semantic memory is actually a subdivision of declarative memory and distinct from procedural or implicit memory. There are many functions of semantic memory. The main function is to allow people to put their experiences into perspective or into a context, so they know what is...
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...WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? Quassim Cassam 1 What would a good answer to this question - call it (WK) - look like? What I’m going to call the standard analytic approach (SA) says that: A) The way to answer WK is to analyse the concept of knowledge. B) To analyse the concept of knowledge is to come up with non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for someone to know that something is the case. Is the standard analytic approach to WK the right approach? If not, what would be a better way of doing things? These are the questions I’m going to tackle here. I want to look at some criticisms of SA and consider the prospects for a different, non-standard analytic approach (NA) to WK. Here is one objection to SA: the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, at least if analysis is understood in the way that (B) understands it.[i] (B) assumes a reductive conception of analysis, according to which analysing a concept is a matter of breaking it down into more basic concepts. Let’s say that a concept C1 is more basic than another concept C2 just if one can grasp C1 without grasping C2 but one can’t grasp C2 without grasping C1. Proponents of SA tend to assume that concepts like truth, belief, and justification are in this sense more basic than the concept knows and that that is why they can be used to specify non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for knowing. If it turns out that such conditions can’t be given, and therefore that the concept of...
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...Topic: How to write a Check and a deposit slip Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the advantages of knowing how to properly fill out a check and deposit slip. Thesis: Many people were never taught how to properly fill out a check or deposit slip so today I am going to teach you how. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: How many of you would know how to write a check if you were asked right now? B. Central Idea: Today I’m going to show you how to properly fill out a check and a deposit slip C. It is very important that everybody knows how to properly fill out a check and deposit slip D. I fill first be showing you how to fill out a check and explain why it is important that everyone knows how to fill one out. I will then tell you how to fill out a deposit slip and explain why it is important to know how to fill one out. II. Main Point 1: How to fill out a check and why it is important Sub-point 1. Payee Line a. Cashing a Check? b. Depositing into someone else’s account? Sub-point 2. Amount and Signature a. Make sure amount on line equals amount in box b. Always sign the front of the check c. If the check is made out to you sign the back of the check Transition: Now that you know how to fill out a check, let me show you how to fill out a deposit slip. III. Main Point 2: How to fill out a deposit slip and why it is important ...
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...Attaining Expertise Marinda Thomas Psych/640 1/18/2016 Mr. Wilson Chu Attaining Expertise Learning is an extraordinary thing that we as a human can do every day of our lives. Learning is a part of our nature, and we must have knowledge and to be able to take in all that we can obtain. We often will pursue and research material that we don’t know about diving into the unknown, for example, scientist their research and discovery are because people desire to learn, obtain knowledge, and expertise in the areas where they yearn to learn about. In the professional field that we have is built of mostly employees that range from average to above average performers, and those who don’t perform as well. Their performance is varied even if they are doing the same workload, some perform better. The question is what do the performers have that you may not have? What can we learn from their talents and success? This instructional paper informs you of ways to obtain expertise in what we already do in our everyday lives. So, let’s begin and become outstanding and earn your way to the top. Reaching Goals In order to attain expertise in this field, you have to practice and have reachable and obtainable goals. What is it you are thinking to yourself “what is the goal?” A goal has been identified and thought out in order to be successful, and your expertise improved. The importance of identifying a goal must not be unreachable, but it has to be clear you can do the job. But when you...
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