PROTECTING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN CONTACT DISPUTES: THE ROLE OF CHILDREN'S CONTACT SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA*

This article explores the role of Children's Contact Services (CCSs) in protecting children's right to express, and have heard, their wishes in contact disputes. The findings presented are drawn from the Australian Children's Contact Services Project and were based on 142 interviews with representatives from the government, the courts and legal profession who refer families to CCSs, service staff, as well as the parents and children who use the services. An analysis of client data from 396 families who had used one of six contact services in Victoria and Queensland during the month of August 2003 was also conducted. The findings suggested that CCSs successfully engaged children in a “dynamic self‐deterministic” process where children were able to explore their own wishes in relation to contact visits over time as their relationship goals changed. John Eekelaar described this process as being central to making decisions that are in children's best interests.     

论中国科技资源共享的社会化公共服务创新模式的规约法规框架

科技资源具有准公共品属性，这决定了社会化公共服务模式是科技资源共享的内生需要，该文就此予以论证，并往分析中国科技资源共享的公共服务模式现状及存在的问题的基础上，对提升中国现阶段科技资源共享社会化公共服务模式提出创新要求并设计出法规框架。     

北京奥运会与我国志愿者立法

2008年北京奥运会极大地推动了我国志愿者活动的开展,加快了我国志愿者立法工作的步伐.从1999年我国第一部志愿者立法出台,至今已有16个省市制定实施了有关志愿者的地方性法规.分析和总结我国志愿者立法的经验,以北京奥运会为契机,提出制定国务院《中国志愿者服务促进条例》的我国志愿者立法的总体思路,并对具体制度设计予以论证,以期完善我国志愿者服务法律制度.     

Social Policy and Politics

Social policy is central to current political debates. The framework in which social policy is discussed remains largely a social services or micro-social policy framework. The contribution of the social services has been reappraised. The importance of the 'private' behaviour of individuals and families that has social consequences is being increasingly realised. There is a growing need for a new 'macro-social policy' approach that extends to all the actors or agents that are relevant to social objectives.     

论医疗欺诈行为

医疗欺诈行为作为提供医疗服务活动中的欺诈行为,具有发生前提、实施主体、行为方式和主观心理等构成要件,从实践中看可归纳三种基本类型即欺诈医疗行为、欺诈宣传行为和欺诈收费行为,医疗欺诈行为根据其不同的具体情形应承担相应的行政、民事和刑事责任。     

TO RECOMMEND OR NOT TO RECOMMEND: THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION

Tippins and Wittmann provide a cogent argument for custody evaluators not to make recommendations to the court. From their forensic and scientific perspectives, they have identified some important issues, which will certainly stimulate interesting discussion among custody evaluators. In response to their article, it is my view that public sector custody evaluations offer a philosophical and procedural alternative to forensic evaluations. This article proposes that recommendations should be viewed as part of the process of evaluations rather than the outcome. Based on a qualitative and interpretive model, recommendations are judged based on their applicability, transferability, and transparency. Recommendations viewed in qualitative terms provide parents with opportunities to step out of litigation and provide guidance for parents' ongoing roles postseparation.     

刍议CEPA中的“服务提供者”

对“服务提供者”进行合理界定，是确保CEPA服务贸易领域一系列优惠措施顺利实施的前提。CEPA附件五对此进行了规定，与GATS和其他RTA的规定基本相同，但也有其特殊之处。CEPA界定法人主要使用了注册地标准和业务本地化标准，这可能引起“溢出效应”。建议引入条件相对宽松的资本控制标准，并完善与其配套的程序等其他规则。     

Integration and offender mental health

Integrated care can introduce seamless coordinated pathways that are focused around the individual needs of patients, helping to prevent missed opportunities for intervention. Within offender healthcare, sequential funnelling through designated areas where screening can take place, along with co-location of services, lends itself to integrated working, at least in theory. However, within the offender healthcare pathway, service fragmentation and autonomous, disconnected (often referred to as siloed) working, has historically been the norm. If commissioned and designed to ensure and incentivise connections between services, whilst developing high quality service-focused research activities, pathways could enable clinical and social interventions, and outcomes, on a public health scale for these highly morbid populations. As such, offender healthcare offers a real opportunity to model integration for wider introduction across other health and social care areas. Discussed within is the call for integration, its concept, and its role within offender healthcare.     

The Regional Location of Knowledge Based Economy Activities in Israel

The article analyzes the spatial location behavior of economic activity that is knowledge based, by decomposing the Knowledge-based Economy Index developed by the OECD (1999) and elaborated by Cooke and Schwartz (2003) into major components that represent groups with different characteristics. The spatial behavior is analyzed in Israel in the years 1995–2002. We find that business services and high tech services tend to concentrate in metropolitan areas. Business services are found in the main city and high tech services in the satellite urban ring, with the outer-cities becoming stronger over time. Public services supporting the knowledge-based economy are concentrated in the center of the country, though not necessarily in the principal city, and they can represent an important tool in regional policy. The high tech manufacturing is concentrated around the big cities, mainly around the main metropolis. The other knowledge-based manufacturing activities tend to leave for the periphery.     

关于妇联组织参与社会管理和公共服务的思考

妇联组织参与社会管理和公共服务是推动科学发展、构建和谐社会、发展社会主义民主政治的要求。在实施中,必须与依照法律和妇联章程开展工作、维护群众合法权益的要求联系在一起,正确处理好与政府、其他团体及妇女群众的关系;必须与扩大人民民主、保证人民当家作主的要求联系在一起,抓住决策、执行和评估三个环节来实施参与;必须与着力保障和改善民生、推进社会体制改革、促进社会公平正义、推动建设和谐社会的要求联系在一起,找准工作定位。