News & Events

• NESC publishes Council Report 124: Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Overview of Concepts and Practice

  • 20 December 2011
  • Type: Press Releases

  NESC publishes the first of a new series of reports which review quality in our public services High quality public services demand much more than minimum compliance with rules and regulations.  For human services, such as eldercare and disability, we need to use regulation and standards that focus on performance and outcomes. This is one…

• NESC Report 123: Supports and Services for Unemployed Jobseekers

  • 9 August 2011
  • Type: Press Releases

  NESC Publishes New Report Supports and Services for Unemployed Jobseekers NESC Report 123 Dublin, Tuesday August 9th — The National Economic and Social Council (NESC) publishes today a detailed study of how people in Ireland are currently supported while unemployed. Its principal messages include: Reaching all today’s unemployed requires bolder changes in policies Ireland’s labour…