Papers of the Royal Commission on Population, Vol. 1. Report of an Enquiry Into Family Limitation and Its Influence on Human Fertility During the Past Fifty Years.

1950 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
W. J. M. ◽  
E. Lewis-Faning
Keyword(s):  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Family Limitation

Family Limitation and Its Influence on Human Fertility during the past Fifty Years

Population ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
H. B. ◽  
E. Lewis-Faning
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Family Limitation

Some Actuarial Aspects of Unemployment Insurance

1929 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-160
Author(s):  
J. G. Kyd ◽  
G. H. Maddex
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Poor Laws ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
National Insurance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Judged by the amount of space devoted to the subject in the Journal of the Institute, Unemployment Insurance has received but little attention from actuaries in the past Public interest in the problem of relieving distress due to unemployment became pronounced in the early years of the present century and led to the appointment in 1904 of a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and, eventually, to the passing in 1911 of the first Unemployment Insurance Act. These important events found a somewhat pallid reflection in our proceedings in the form of reprints of extracts from Sir H. Llewellyn Smith's address on Insurance against Unemployment to the British Association in 1910 (J.I.A., vol. xliv, p. 511) and of Mr. Ackland's report on Part II of the National Insurance Bill (J.I.A., vol. xlv, p. 456). At a later date, when the scope of the national scheme was very greatly widened, the Government Actuary's report on the relevant measure—the Unemployment Insurance Bill 1919—was reprinted in the Journal (J.I.A., vol. lii, page 72).

The past surveyed tomorrow

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (293) ◽  
pp. 855-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Site ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The Government

The last 25 years has been a period of rapid change in the approach to archaeological fieldwork in Britain and this has been reflected in the development of survey within the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), the government financed body responsible for maintaining the national record of archaeology and architecture. The monolithic county-based inventory approach of RCAHMS' first 60 years has been replaced by a more broadly-based archaeological strategy founded on programmes of work that range from national overviews and regional surveys to individual site plans. Archaeological mapping has superseded monument planning as the key field objective, and all survey, whether terrestrial, aerial or desk-based, is underpinned by the RCAHMS Geographical Information System (GIs). The radical changes in field data-capture have been mirrored by parallel developments in making that data accessible once it has been collected.

The Royal Medico-Psychological Association's Memorandum to the Royal Commission on Medical Education, 1966-1968

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (516) ◽  
pp. 1435-1439 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Past

The role of the doctor in society has changed rapidly over the past 20 years consequent upon great developments in the biological sciences and equally great changes in the society in which we live. In particular we would stress the following factors which would influence the medical curriculum.

scholarly journals A Bridge to Reconciliation: A Critique of the Indian Residential School Truth Commission

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc A. Flisfeder
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Dispute Resolution Mechanism

In the past year, the Government of Canada has established the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to address the deleterious effect that the IRS system has had on Aboriginal communities. This paper argues that the TRC as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism is flawed since it focuses too much on truth at the expense of reconciliation. While the proliferation of historical truths is of great importance, without mapping a path to reconciliation, the Canadian public will simply learn about the mistakes of the past without addressing the residual, communal impacts of the IRS system that continue to linger. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission must therefore approach its mandate broadly and in a manner reminiscent of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples of 1996.

Deuteron bombardment of gold

1941 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
Metastable State ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Excitation Functions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deuteron Bombardment

The paper describes the results obtained from a study of the bombardment of gold with deuterons of energy up to 9·1 M.e.V. The reactions found to take place in gold are the formation of 2·7 day Au198 by a (d-p) process and of 32 hr. Hg198* in a metastable state by a (d-n) process. The β-ray and γ-ray energies associated with each radioactivity have been measured by absorption methods. Excitation functions for the two reactions have been determined and the results have been compared with those to be expected on theoretical grounds.The author takes this opportunity of expressing his gratitude to the past and present members of the Cavendish Cyclotron Laboratory for assistance in running the cyclotron. He wishes to thank the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 for the award of a Science Scholarship.

Judicial Activism and Judicial Independence: Implications of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the Reference Procedure and Judicial Service on Commissions of Inquiry.

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Commissions Of Inquiry ◽  
And Function ◽  
Fundamental Values

Over the past five years the Supreme Court of Canada has addressed on three occasions the implications of the 1982Charter of Rights and Freedomsfor the principle of judicial independence. The justices agree that the Court's new role as guardian of constitutionally entrenched civil rights and liberties demands an expansion in its immunity from legislative and executive influence. The hoary principle of judicial independence can no longer be confined to such individual elements as security of salary and tenure but must encompass an institutional element, “reflected in [a court's] institutional or administrative relationships to the executive and legislative branches of government.” The “modern understanding of judicial independence,” according to Chief Justice Brian Dickson, recognizes that the Canadian judiciary is no longer confined to the resolution of disputes in individual cases but plays the role of “protector of theConstitutionand the fundamental values embodied in it—rule of law, fundamental justice, equality, preservation of the democratic process, to name perhaps the most important.” It is not enough, therefore, to ensure the impartiality of judges in individual cases. Courts must “be completely separate in ‘authority and function’ from all other branches of government.” Accordingly, the Court ruled in a 1989 case that a royal commission of inquiry cannot compel judges involved in a matter being investigated to testify as to the reasons for their judicial decision.

Factors associated with the age at marriage in Britain

1963 ◽  
Vol 159 (974) ◽  
pp. 178-202 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Principal Tool ◽  
Fertility Analysis ◽  
Net Reproduction

The analysis of marriage data has been neglected by demographers until a relatively late stage in the development of the subject. In the earlier stages of population study interest was focused on mortality, and the techniques for measuring mortality had been more or less perfected by the middle of the nineteenth century (Glass 1956). Deaths were studied by means of age-specific mortality rates, and it was to be expected that when the analysis of fertility became the centre of interest, similar techniques would be employed. Fertility rates were regarded as a function of the age distribution of the female population, and age-specific fertility rates, combined into gross and net reproduction rates, became the principal tool of replacement and fertility analysis. A number of the early students of fertility were biologists by training, or had a biological outlook, and so tended to stress biological rather than social influences on fertility. This method would be legitimate in societies in which all females marry or cohabit shortly after puberty and where no attempt is made to control fertility within marriage. Under those circumstances, the age distribution of the female population will be the primary and principal determinant of human fertility. However, in modern European countries it is no longer legitimate to study fertility in terms of female age distribution alone. In this country the bulk of reproduction takes place within marriage (legitimate births account for about 95% of all births), and though among the younger women marriage may not infrequently follow conception rather than precede it, even if pre-nuptial conceptions are excluded the proportion of maritally conceived births only falls to 87%. Moreover, given the small family system prevalent in this country to-day, the normal size of family may be achieved without much difficulty even by women who marry relatively late. The amount and timing of marriage is therefore important in the study of fertility and much greater attention has recently been devoted to the study of nuptiality. The Statistics Committee of the Royal Commission on Population, for instance, devoted much time to the study of marriage trends (Hajnal 1950).

Constructing a Child Protection Policy to Support a Safeguarding Children Culture in Organisations and Institutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Tucci ◽  
Janise Mitchell ◽  
Deb Holmes ◽  
Craig Hemsworth ◽  
Leonie Hemsworth
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Child Protection Policy

Thousands of hours of evidence of trauma, pain and culpability presented to the current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have left no doubt that organisations have always been and continue to be responsible for enacting a culture that ensures that their own staff and volunteers do not harm, abuse or exploit children who are involved directly or indirectly with the activities or services provided by the organisation. In the past 6 years, through its Safeguarding Children Accreditation Program, the Australian Childhood Foundation has worked with more than 100 organisations nationally and internationally to strengthen their capacity to protect children and young people. Our experience has highlighted that substantial confusion exists about how to construct a child protection policy that frames the expectations and responsibilities of individuals who work, volunteer or use the services/activities of an organisation. In this paper, the authors offer a blueprint for considering the critical elements of a child protection policy that organisations can use to evaluate and possibly reconfigure or formulate their own. The paper outlines the function of the child protection policy in an organisation; the principles for constructing the policy; and an example of content for a child protection policy. The authors conclude that, if constructed with heart and sensitivity, a child protection policy can shape and define the very narrative about what the organisation stands for in relation to the safety of children and the responsibilities of adults to fulfilling the rights of children and young people more broadly.

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