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Milan
Milan – Conclusions

The cases of innovations presented here cover three areas of policy: income support and professional reintegration; early child care and education; and housing. A few elements emerge as relevant in all cases considered. A first major issue at stake appears to be the amount of available resources as opposed to increasing and changing needs, a…

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Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa (Politecnico di Milan)

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Pamplona
54. Social integration enterprises and social clauses

54.1. Short description Employment policies in Spain have long included temporary employment schemes for the unemployed, usually run by local authorities. The idea that offering a chance of working for some time is better than just claiming benefits has a long tradition, based on the idea that it is better for the dignity of those…

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Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson (Universitat de Barcelona)

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Pamplona
55. Social integration housing

55.1. Short description The social integration housing (viviendas de integración social, or VIS) programme allows a number of TSOs to buy second–hand homes that may be resold or rented to low-income people with whom they are engaged in a social work process. It allows a more flexible approach to access to housing for specific persons…

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Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson (Universitat de Barcelona)

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Pamplona
56. Casas Amigas

56.1. Short description Casas Amigas (friendly homes) is a child care service for children under the age of three that is provided at the carer’s own home. Two associations (one in Pamplona, one in rural areas in Navarra) provide the service, which is regulated and subsidised by the regional government. It is officially considered as…

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Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson (Universitat de Barcelona)

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Pamplona
57. Neighbourhood children’s services

57.1. Short description The fourth case we are analysing in Pamplona is a group of neighbourhood associations that carry out social activities aimed at the prevention of social problems amongst children. It is the result of a movement of community associations that developed leisure activities for children and of its integration into the local government…

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Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson (Universitat de Barcelona)

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Pamplona
Pamplona – Conclusions

All four analysed innovations were born as initiatives of TSOs. In all cases there has been one (or several) TSOs that wished to do something in a specific new way that have either started to do it on their own and then found the way to obtain public support (cases 1, 2 and 4), or…

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Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson (Universitat de Barcelona)

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Milan
Milan – Introduction

Local background of the social innovations Milan is the capital city of the Lombardy region. The economic and financial capital of Italy, it is a rich and economically dynamic context (see Costa and Sabatinelli 2012). One of the vertexes of the former industrial triangle with Gène and Turin in the Fordist era, it was one…

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Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa (Politecnico di Milan)

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Birmingham
Birmingham – Conclusions

Social service research: Innovations as illustrative examples for a new generation of social services These innovation examples are time-specific and came about as a result of particular circumstances in Birmingham and more general problems caused by the current financial climate. However, there were some overall key approaches and instruments adopted by the innovations. In terms…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Birmingham
70. A locality approach to unemployment

70.1. Short description Birmingham developed an approach to tackling unemployment for those living in the most deprived areas, which could be characterised in two ways. Firstly, it was locality driven in that it focused on areas with high levels of unemployment (25 per cent or more) and detailed consultation took place with local welfare partners,…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Birmingham
71. Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal (YEER)

71.1. Short description In 2010 The Future Melting Pot (TFMP) set up the YEER pilot project (for 1 year) to provide business support to black and minority ethnic individuals who were not in employment, education or training (NEET) with the main aim of participants being able to set up their own enterprises. YEER was designed…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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71. Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal (YEER)

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