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Children Order Advisory Committee discussion paper on separate representation of children in private law proceedings

Children Order Advisory Committee Sixth Report (PDF 821 KB)

Children Order Advisory Committee sixth report

COAC Court Welfare Officers (PDF 345 KB)

Children Order Advisory Committee discussion paper on Court Welfare Officers

Health Protection Sub-Group Report (PDF 32 KB)

PH Health Protection Sub-Group Interim Report January 2006

Health Improvement and Knowledge Management Subgroup Interim Report (PDF 138 KB)

Health Improvement and Knowledge Management Subgroup Interim Report January 2006

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Leaving Care?

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Review of the Nurse Consultant Role Northern Ireland 2005 (PDF 152 KB)

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Annual Report to the Equality Commission 01-02 (PDF 103 KB)

The Department and its associated bodies are committed to jointly taking forward the Statutory equality obligations placed on them by Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. This has involved collaboration in drafting and submitting their Equality Schemes and then in jointly conducting a 2-stage consultation exercise on the equality implications of our policies. Stage 1 papers were issued in November/December 2000 seeking views, amongst other things, on the equality implications of our policies, and a composite Stage 2 paper in April 2001setting out the conclusions reached on the screening of policies and proposals for an Equality Impact Assessment programme. åÊ

Public sector rationing and private sector selection [paper accepted and forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory]

We study the interaction between nonprice public rationing and prices in the private market. Under a limited budget, the public supplier uses a rationing policy. A private firm may supply the good to those consumers who are rationed by the public system. Consumers have different amounts of wealth, and costs of providing the good to them vary. We consider two regimes. First, the public supplier observes consumers' wealth information; second, the public supplier observes both wealth and cost information. The public supplier chooses a rationing policy, and, simultaneously, the private firm, observing only cost but not wealth information, chooses a pricing policy. In the first regime, there is a continuum of equilibria. The Pareto dominant equilibrium is a means-test equilibrium: poor consumers are supplied while rich consumers are rationed. Prices in the private market increase with the budget. In the second regime, there is a unique equilibrium. This exhibits a cost-effectiveness rationing rule; consumers are supplied if and only if their costbenefit ratios are low. Prices in the private market do not change with the budget. Equilibrium consumer utility is higher in the cost-effectiveness equilibrium than the means-test equilibrium [Authors]