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With Ireland's strong economic recovery and the gradual revival of its construction industry, the future potential status and growth of its provincial cities in general for Drogheda, and the near 80,000 population of the Greater Drogheda Area (GDrA), is viewed as having been portrayed in an underwhelming way in the withdrawn National Spatial Strategy (NSS). Drogheda straddles both Louth and Meath counties, thereby presenting historic governance issues. Its impressive growth since 1996, in becoming Ireland's largest town, has required several county boundary adjustments. This divided governance has inhibited its commercial growth. The purpose of this Paper is to have GDrA's status and its future as Ireland's next city, appropriately articulated in the revised National Planning Framework (NPF), supported by the demographic evidence-base of this Paper.

There is growing evidence that local authorities are providing care only to those people who are deemed to be the most critically in need, while many people are being forced to rely on informal care at home because they cannot afford their local authority charges. Caroline Bernard and Anna Passingham examine the background to the challenges around care charging, but say that the gap between those who need care services but are unable to access them, must be bridged.

The package of proposals contained in Putting People First document, the Report of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee and the Final Report of the Local Government/Local Development Alignment Steering Group, taken in conjunction with the introduction of the Residential Property Tax and the incorporation of enterprise development bodies in local government represent the most significant set of local government reforms articulated by an Irish government since the introduction of the city/county manager system. In particular the focus on making local public policy making more democratic and accountable is particularly noteworthy. The implementation of these policy initiatives has now commenced with the publication of the Local Government Bill, 2013. Ireland is not unusual in seeking to radically reform the operation of the state at local level. Andrews and Boyne (2012, 297-298) note that policy makers across the world continue to debate the merits of alternative local government structures in terms of their consequences for local service costs and performance. In recent years several countries have enacted or considered reorganizations of local government on the grounds of efficiency. Examples include Denmark where the number of local government units was reduced from 270 to 98 in 2007, and there is further ongoing discussion about another reduction. Similarly, in Australia and Canada, debates have long raged about the amalgamation of local governments (Vojnovic 2000; King et al. 2004, Dollery et al. 2009). At the same time, it seems likely that the current era of fiscal austerity will increase the pressure on governments to reform and/or reorganize local government. Tis article proposes that the implementation Irish local government reform programme should take heed of previous and similar reform processes in order for the changes it proposes to be embedded and successful (Wollman 2008). In additions it suggests that the reforms may have very significant implications for planners, the planning process and ...

This document contains the consensus from the Population Summit held in Islamabad, Pakistan, November 5–6, 2015. To date, an enduring commitment to a sound and adequate population welfare program has eluded Pakistan, leaving millions of couples who want to wait before having their next child or who consider that they have enough children, without good access to family planning. However, in the wake of devolution, in part through efforts of donors and civil society for awareness building, advocacy, and dialogue, opinion among all major stakeholders is coalescing around the need to address Pakistan's alarming maternal and child health indicators through strong programming, including access to voluntary birth spacing services. The majority of elected representatives from all provinces and major political parties, and religious scholars of all major schools of thought, came out to express their unequivocal and enthusiastic support for the right of couples to use contraception for healthy spacing and timing of pregnancies.

Discusses how we can integrate process perspectives such as the quality of the coach-coachee relationship, and professional perspectives including the influences of training and supervision, for more effective outcomes.