My judgment is that the advocacy services often provided by voluntaries bodies are excellent and that they support parents at a very difficult time.
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Although focused on social services, this also provides useful material, from a user's perspective, on health services andvoluntaryorganisations.
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Recovery ofvoluntarymotion in the upper extremity following hemiplegia.
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The discrepancy between apparent need and service provision is currently covered by family and spousal support and byvoluntaryservices.
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Participation in the activities offered, of course, isvoluntary.
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Her methodology is qualitative documentary analysis, drawing principally on municipal reports and committee minutes, and also somevoluntarysector records.
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Because segmentalist behavior isvoluntary, no external agency is necessary to enforce it.
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In classical political economy,voluntaryarrangements to fix prices and restrict competition were part of a citizen's broader right to contract.
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The commissioning group facilitated bids from thevoluntarysector, linking them to academic units.
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Instead, directives would rely on essential requirements2 and the use ofvoluntarystandards.
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In some instances, the programs involve professional organizations,voluntaryassociations, and workplaces.
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Danish health authorities have now decided to introduce economic evaluation of new pharmaceutical products on avoluntarybasis for 2 or 3 years.
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Thus, the fixational subsystem can exhibit improvedvoluntarycontrol despite chronic visual deprivation.
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Unable and unwilling to rely on an urban treatment network,voluntaryproviders turned their backs on the city.
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First, it is important to recognise that, compared with the wholevoluntarysector, the field of social services is among the smallest.
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