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Please Note: The information provided here is as a general guide to ADF Medical Officers. It may not address all aspects of every case, which will be determined on its own merits. Final decisions regarding MO management lie with the single Service Career Management Agencies.
1. How much will I be paid under the new system?
3. I am a Reservist; how will I be paid?
4. Will I still get Service Allowance?
5. Will I still get a pay rise along with the rest of the ADF?
6. Do I only get one chance to decide whether or not to transfer to the new system?
7. Will I have to give up my Permanent Commission?
8. How long will the Fixed Periods of Service be?
9. What are the implications for Superannuation?
10. What are the employment streams?
12. Can I train in something other than General Practice or Force Protection?
13. How will Defence assist me to achieve and maintain professional standards?
14. Will there be any Return of Service Obligation (ROSO) for my postgraduate training?
16. Will I get time away from the ADF workplace to complete my training?
17. Will I be released from my usual job to gain additional experience?
18. What are the grandfathering provisions?
19. What happens if I can�t complete my training in the required time frame?
20. What access will I get to training?
21. Is there a quota of each type of specialist under the new structure?
22. Will I be able to do the training that I want?
23. What happens once I gain fellowship?
24. Can I still get Higher Duties Allowance?
25. What if I achieve a particular ML but am not posted to a job requiring that ML for Service reasons?
26. What happens if the ADF does not get its own quota of GP training positions?
27. Will there be any detriment or penalties if I do not transfer to the new system?
28. Will my career manager listen to senior health advice in posting and career management issues?
29. What career progression will I have if I do not move to the new system?
30. How long will the transition take?
31. If I move to the new system, when will my new conditions and salary be effective from?
32. Who assesses my Medical level and how?
34. What if I fail my specialist training program?
35. Can I appeal against the MOPCDC decision?
36. Is ML part of AIRN/individual readiness?
37. Do I have to move through all the ML?
38. Can I be expected to work outside of my ML?
39. What happens if my supervisor is away on leave/posted?
The final salary scale is posted on the JHC Intranet site. No currently serving MO will have a reduction in pay. Rather than there being non-detriment provisions, MOs are not required to transition to the new arrangements until their circumstances suit. Therefore, if the MO thinks that they would suffer a detriment by transitioning to the new scheme, there is no compunction for them to do that. Once paid at a particular ML, you will not have a reduction in pay as a result of a posting to a lower level position for Service requirements.
You will be paid for your specialist skills and knowledge, primarily, with a rank loading that is a relatively small component of your salary. You will be paid according to your Medical Level (ML), if and when you are posted to a position requiring that Medical level.
Every Reserve MO will also be assigned a Medical level by the MOPCDC. You will be paid at that ML when on training days. If you come onto Continuous Full Time Service (CFTS), you will be paid at that ML provided you are filling a position requiring that ML. If you have already been employed in a position requiring your designated ML and then are later employed in a position requiring a lower ML for Service reasons, you will be paid at the higher ML rate, ie. Cannot suffer a detriment.
Yes, if you are entitled to Service Allowance now (ie. Are O4 rank or below), you will still receive it. This will be a component of your total salary. Members in their internship will not receive Service Allowance until they gain full registration as a Doctor in a State or Territory of Australia.
Yes, if the ADF as a whole gets a pay rise, then any MO in either the new or the old system will also get that pay rise.
The decision to transfer to the new system can be made at any time. You can stay with the old system indefinitely but once you decide to move to the new system you cannot go back. So, you should only make this decision after weighing up all the advantages and disadvantages for your own particular circumstance.
If you are currently on a Permanent Commission and decide to transfer to the new system, then you will have to give this up and accept a Fixed Period of Service (FPS). This is one of the principles underpinning Specialist Officer Career and Salary Structures as determined by the Chiefs of Service Committee in 1998, that is, all officers in that structure will be on FPS.
The Fixed Periods of Service will be tailored to the circumstances of the individual MO. The Career Managers are mindful of issues such as CRA and DFRDB and will not seek to disadvantage anyone by offering a period of service that could be detrimental to their situation. It is expected that they would be between 2 and 6 years long. The Career Management Agencies will make the final determination, based on many factors, the primary one being that of required capability
Essentially this depends on which scheme you�re in and is to do with the employer benefit. If you are in DFRDB, then the day you move to the new system and are paid at the new rate and that rate is higher than your old rate, then your super benefit will be maximised immediately (ie. If you decide to leave the next day, you would already have maximised your benefit). If you are in MSBS, then your super benefit will take 3 years to maximise as employer contributions are calculated on the average salary over your final 3 years of service. So, while your benefit will be improved immediately on transfer to a higher rate of pay, it will take 3 years of service to maximise this benefit. As always, each individual MO should seek professional financial advice regarding their own situation prior to making the decision to transfer to the new system.
Essentially, the employment streams consist of clinical or management and staff. The clinical stream will consist primarily of Reserve "procedural" specialists and a small number of primary care providers who choose to remain in that role in the full time ADF. It is envisaged that most MO will enter primary health care training before or during their Initial Minimum Period of Service (IMPS), as the provision of primary health care will be the bulk of their day to day work while acquitting ROSO. It is expected that those who choose to remain in the full time ADF will then enter training in a force protection area, such as Public Health Medicine (which includes tropical medicine), Occupational Medicine (which includes aviation medicine, diving and hyperbaric medicine, and NBC) and medical administration. While these specialties have a clinical component, the "clinical" stream will consist mainly of GPs and "procedural" specialists (ie. Surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists etc).
Individual MO may be able to change streams. Each case would be looked at individually by the MOPCDC in the light of current manning, specialty mix and capability needs. The MOPCDC will make a recommendation to the Service personnel managers, who will make the final decision regarding any change in career stream.
There will be scope for a small number of MO to undergo postgraduate training in some other disciplines, depending on capability requirements. These include disciplines such as sports medicine. The issue of training in the "procedural" specialties is still to be resolved. While the policy regarding MOSTS is extant vide DI(G) PERS 05-31 - Medical Officers Specialist Training Scheme, how it fits in to health capability has not yet been determined. Issues surround the extent of external training required, appropriate ROSO provisions, appropriate employment of these specialists in the full time force, both in the NSA and on operations. At present, selection and approval for MOSTS entry is done by the single Services. Should the need for procedural specialists in the permanent force be accepted, the structure will already be in place to integrate this without any further change.
While it is the responsibility of each MO to apply to and meet entry criteria for postgraduate training programs, ADF will assist by providing funding and release for civilian placements during training. Once fellowship is attained, it is the individual MO�s responsibility to maintain ongoing CME/MOPS requirements, with assistance from CPMD as per DI(G)PERS 05-17 Continuing Professional Development for full time Medical Officers in the Australian Defence Force, and under the provisions of DI(G)PERS 05-32 Postgraduate experience and vocational training for officers with health service specialisations.
ROSO implications will vary depending mainly on the type of training that the MO is undergoing.
If a MO is released for a general practice civilian placement of 6 months or more, their IMPS, ROSO or FPS may be extended by that amount of time.
If a MO is released for six months or more to gain additional experience in an area other than general practice, eg. occupational medicine, ROSO would be time released plus one year, ie the standard ROSO provisions as detailed in DI(G)PERS 33-2 Return of Service Obligation.
If a MO can complete all training requirements without a full time civilian placement of six months or more, no ROSO will be incurred.
The Medical Officer Specialist Training Scheme, as per DI(G) PERS 05-31 - Medical Officers Specialist Training Scheme has not been included as part of the MO Specialist Officer Career and Salary Structure. This is being addressed as a separate capability issue that will need approval by the Single Service chiefs, who must be satisfied that there is a requirement and be willing to pay for the scheme. Particular issues that require resolution include ROSO periods, employment of MOs after fellowship, both in the NSA and on operations, and ongoing individual and collective training.
The new structure recognises that some postgraduate training and skills maintenance must occur outside the ADF health system. While it is still the Commander�s decision whether or not to release someone, with better education, liaison and planning, the likelihood of release to gain civilian experience should be much greater than it has been.
The provision for release from your usual workplace to undergo training or gain additional experience/maintain skills will remain as described in DI(G)PERS 05-32 Postgraduate experience and vocational training for officers with health service specialisations.
Currently serving MO who have not yet gained fellowship of a relevant College/Faculty or who do not hold the ML required for their current job may be grandfathered. Those who have had at least six years full time equivalent military service as a doctor after hospital residency will be deemed to be ML3, those with at least 12 years of such service will be deemed ML4. These MO will then have a period of six years in which to complete all training requirements to gain the relevant fellowship, or revert to a lower level of pay (that of their true assessed ML). Reservists may achieve the same only through ADF experience. Therefore, someone who had, for instance, 5 years in the ADF as an MO would need to have completed 1 FTE year as a reserve MO to achieve ML3. That individual would then have until 6 years after the start of the new scheme to achieve FRACGP or FACRRM to retain ML3. It should be noted that grandfathering will not necessarily be automatic, but will depend on the position currently being filled and its requirements. For example, if you are a ML2 currently posted to a ML3 job and have more than 6 years FTE experience, you may be grandfathered to ML3 and paid accordingly. If you are a ML2 with more than 6 years experience and are in a ML2 job, you may not be grandfathered to ML3.
As at today, the six year window in which to gain fellowship is absolute. If a MO has been grandfathered and hasn�t completed fellowship training within six years, the individual case will be looked at by the MOPCDC. If it is determined that the individual has made all reasonable attempts to complete this training but hasn�t been able to do so because of factors beyond their control, the DFRT will be approached to consider the case and whether an extension could be granted.
The ADF will fund postgraduate training in the areas of primary health care, public health medicine, occupational medicine and medical administration. Other areas may be funded at the discretion of the Single Service personnel branch on recommendation by the MOPCDC. Each individual MO is responsible for applying for and meeting entry criteria for postgraduate training courses and programs.
While there is no strict quota of each specialty per se, there are limitations to the positions that can be filled by particular ML and by particular specialties. Each Service has a liability for certain specialties and will select and pay for the training needed to meet that liability.
There is a limited range of postgraduate training programs that will be sponsored within the full time ADF and this is based on health capability requirements. Essentially, the ADF will sponsor postgraduate medical training in
And/or one of the following:
It will be the MO�s responsibility to apply for and gain entry to each of the postgraduate training programs. Selection for ADF sponsored postgraduate training will be merit based and capability driven.
The ADF will sponsor postgraduate training to the point of gaining fellowship of a relevant College. Once fellowship is attained, it is the MO�s responsibility to meet the ongoing requirements of fellowship, and will be assisted by the ADF through the CPMD allowance, as now.
Yes, but not in the way you can now. If you are in a ML2 job and are asked to fill in for a ML4 job, you can only be paid the ML4 salary if you have satisfied all requirements for ML4 (ie. Are really a ML4 but just haven�t yet been posted into a ML4 job). If not, then you can only be paid higher duties for the rank component. See the section on HDA.
Under the new system, you can only be paid at a ML once you achieve that ML and are posted into a job requiring that ML. So, if you have met all the requirements for ML3, you will not be paid at ML3 rate until posted into a ML3 job. If you are already in a ML3 job and are posted to a ML2 job for Service reasons, you will suffer no detriment and remain on the ML3 pay rate. If you have met all requirements for a ML and posting into a job requiring that ML is delayed, you will have to take it up with your career manager. The aim of proper personnel management would be to avoid this situation. The spread of ML positions makes this scenario unlikely for an individual, but may still occur for the duration of a current posting. As is the case currently, posting into positions by Career Managers, particularly if an increase in rank is involved, is based on relative merit.
Nothing much. The ADF is currently in negotiations to gain its own quota of funded GP training positions. Any MO wishing to enter an ADF-based GP program would still have to meet entry criteria and standards as laid down by the RACGP/ACRRM and go through the usual process. This would still be a competitive process and may attract DEO to the ADF. If the training positions are not obtained, then it�s business as usual, no change from now.
There will be no detriment provisions in so far as no one can suffer a financial loss. So, if you remain under the old system, you just remain on the old pay scale (rank based) and gain the usual increments as before. However, in the longer term, there may be limitations in the range of positions that you will be suitable to fill, as each position has been assessed with respect to appropriate ML.
The new system will certainly require careful personnel management if it is to succeed. It is proposed that the MOCPDC have input into MO management. The MO�s Career Adviser is the first point of contact for all questions.
In the short term, during the transition, career progression is unlikely to be affected greatly due to the practicalities of implementation, available number of MOs etc. In the longer term, career progression may be affected if a MO does not move to the new system. This is mainly in terms of having the appropriate ML to fill a range of jobs that that the MO may have been suitable to fill before. Employment may become more limited.
Given the current manning level, the expected number of entrants in coming years and the long training times involved, full transition to the mature state is likely to take 8 to 10 years (ie. it is expected to take that long to have the mature structure fully populated by MOs with all the appropriate MLs). Implementation and transition began on 31 July 2003.
If you agree to the terms offered to you by your Career Manager and decide to move to the new system before 31 January 2004, your new salary and conditions will come into effect on 31 July 2003 (ie. back pay). If you decide to move to the new system after this date, your date of decision will become the with effect date of your new employment conditions. It is vital, then, to get your information package in to the MOPCDC ASAP so that your processing time can be minimised, giving you as much time as possible to make your decision.
Each MO�s Medical level will be assessed by the MOPCDC and will be based on:
The MOPCDC advises the Career Management Agency, where the final decision resides. It is the head of each single Service Career Management Agency who has the final say regarding assigned ML, pay rate and conditions of employment.
There is an appeals process if you are not satisfied with the outcome.
While the salary structure contains a rank component, rank does not form part of the competency structure. Rank remains a Single Service issue. A combination of rank and ML will be required to fill certain positions.
Each case will be considered on its own merits by the MOPCDC.
Yes, any MO who is not satisfied with a decision made by the MOPCDC can seek reconsideration and/or appeal to the Appeals Committee through their Career Manager. All other avenues of appeal or complaint within the ADF are also available to MO, eg Redress of Grievance.
Only in so far as deeming the individual MO as being suitable for a particular range of tasks or roles. Military and military medical courses have only been specified for ML1 moving to ML2, and some within ML2. The environmental command SMOs determined that this level of training was required prior to being deployable, based on the roles that these MO would be required to fill on deployment.
No, there is no fixed linear progression through the Medical levels.
MO entering the ADF under the new scheme will most likely commence at ML1 and progress through ML2 to ML3, 4 (not necessarily all or in that order). For example, on completion of ML1, the MO may remain in ML2 while completing GP, a discipline of Occupational Medicine or Public health training, and then move to ML3 or to ML4 respectively.
Direct entry MO (DEO) would "plug in" to the system at their appropriate ML, as determined by the MOPCDC. For example, a fully qualified GP DEO would enter at ML3, but remain on the lowest increment until completion of all ML1 and any necessary ML2 requirements.
Currently serving MO will be deemed at an appropriate ML. Not all will have to complete any outstanding ML1 or ML2 requirements. The need for "catch up" training will be identified on an individual basis by the MOPCDC, determined by current and likely employment or role on deployment.
The basic premise of a competency based system, is that individuals cannot work outside their level or area of competency. However, there is provision for a MO to work outside of the medical officer structure (ie. not in a MO position) for a period of up to 3 years without detriment. After 3 years out of the MO structure, pay would revert to the Officer Common Scale.
If you are doing a GP basic term, an alternative supervisor must be nominated and move on site. If doing advanced or subsequent terms, an alternative supervisor must be nominated but can be located offsite. For supervisor absences with respect to other postgraduate programs, advice will be sought from the relevant College.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Is It Just Me,,, edition two
Is it just me or do you all join me in thinking that Hallie is wonderful for doing everything she does to make everyone think about organ donation? Make sure you jump over to her site and check out her latest giveaway.
Is it just me or do you expect the "2nd day air" shipping option to get to you two days after it was shipped? I paid extra to have a package shipped to me this way. It was shipped on Thursday, December 31st. I still don't have it. It is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I know there was a holiday and a weekend in there but still. This should be called "One day less than a week air".
Is it just me or is the times that you don't want to go exercise but somehow manage to drag yourself there the times that you actually feel the best during your workout? I take karate and had class tonight. All day, I had a headache and a sore back. I was really suffering and wasn't sure if I would survive class. However, my husband was testing for his 2nd degree brown belt and I wanted to be there to support him. I explained to my Sensei that I wasn't feeling well but that I would give my best effort. By halfway thru class, I realized that my back was feeling better and that my headache was 90% better! Ahh. The benefit of exercise.
Is it just me or did you ever wonder why there wasn't a public outcry against Nathalee Holloway's school for not providing better supervision? My son is going on a school trip in April and they - and the parents - had to sign a form stating that there would be no drinking even if they are old enough. This was a school functuion. The bar that she was in was a known issue. Her step-brother apparently told her not to go to that particular bar. Where were the chaperones when this was going on?
That is it for today, folks. Have a great day!
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Hallie is awesome. I agree.ReplyDelete
And the shipping thing- totally with you on that one!
I'm just starting back into my exercise regiment and I keep reminding myself of that fact as a way to keeping myself motivated.
The Nathalee H thing was and is so scary and no one ever seemed to really take it all very seriously.
Yup. I agree with everything! And Hallie is going to come stalk you so she can kiss you for being so nice to her!!!ReplyDelete
I so LOVE me some Hallie I also LOVED your comment... your my magazineline.com winner I can not find your email can you email me so i can send your gift codeReplyDelete
Ok. I must be over tired. Cuz I actually got a little teary reading this!! WTH?? I am such a wuss.ReplyDelete
Seriously, thanks for the kind words. I feel like I'm not doing enough to raise awareness. Determined to figure out how to do more.
And thank you for doing this today even though I didnt do my normal IS IT JUST ME OR...post. Wanted to but felt like I needed to stick with my week of contest plan. Feels odd not to do it!!
And I'm thrilled you are a follower-joiner...your lists are awesome!!
I hate shipping things!ReplyDelete
usually I just have to force myself to go exercise....


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– in Westminster Hall at 11:00 am on 12th November 2008.
I think that this is the first time, Mrs. Dean, that I have spoken in a debate with you in the Chair, and I welcome the opportunity to do so. I also very much appreciate the fact that the Minister for Children, Young People and Families, who has been very busy in the last couple of days with the tragic case that has been in the media, has taken the time today to respond to the debate.
I am very aware that this is a cross-departmental issue, involving the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Ministry of Justice. The Cabinet Office has also been involved, with its families at risk review. The joint review that was published about a year ago by the DCSF and the MOJ was a very important step in highlighting some of the issues that need to be addressed—issues that have been neglected for a long time.
When the children of prisoners have come up on the political radar, which is not very often, much of the focus has been on the MOJ side of the equation. The issue arose, for example, during consideration of the Offender Management Bill. The focus has very much been on the importance to prisoners of maintaining family relationships while they are inside prison, which has been proven to reduce significantly the risk of reoffending.
Organisations, such as Action for Prisoners Families, have led campaigns on facilitating prison visits, reducing the cost of phone calls from prisons and reducing the distance from their home towns that prisoners are placed—an issue that was flagged up in the Corston report, particularly in relation to female prisoners. Other organisations, such as Save the Children, have done a lot of good work in creating children's visiting centres to make it easier for children to visit their parents in custody. That type of work is good, but I do not intend to dwell on those issues today, because they are very much the responsibility of the MOJ. Today, I want to look at this matter from the other side of the equation; from the child's point of view, rather than the prisoner's.
The statistics on the number of children who are affected by parental imprisonment shocked me when I looked into them. About 7 per cent. of British children will experience the imprisonment of a parent during their school years. It is estimated that about 160,000 children a year have a parent who is sent into custody. The Corston report says that 18,000 children a year are affected by a mother's imprisonment and a third of mothers who go to prison have a child under the age of five.
To put those statistics into some kind of context, each year, more children are separated from a parent by imprisonment than by divorce. The number of children who have a parent in prison at any time is two and a half times the number of children in care and more than six times the number of children on the child protection register. Obviously, with rising prison populations, those figures are expected to rise.
I will not go into much detail on the issue today, but the impact of a sibling being imprisoned has been shown to be just as significant on a child in some cases as the imprisonment of a parent. That is something that we should also bear in mind when examining such statistics.
As for the impact on children of a parent's imprisonment, it has been shown that a child whose parent is serving a custodial sentence has three times the risk of developing mental health problems. There is obviously a stigma attached to a parent being sent to jail and the child may feel ashamed of it. Alternatively, they may sometimes blame the parent for indulging in the criminal activity that led to them being sentenced, or they may feel rejected by the parent and feel that the parent has chosen to engage in that criminal activity, rather than putting their child's interests first.
As a knock-on effect, the children of prisoners may be subjected to bullying or teasing—particularly at school, but also in the local neighbourhood—especially if the crime that the parent committed has affected people who live in close proximity to the family. That situation is obviously worse if there has been significant media coverage of the crime, which is an issue that I have wrestled with for some time. Obviously, there is a public interest in reporting the names and other details of offenders. However, if we read in the newspaper, for example, about a father of several children who has been convicted of downloading indecent images of children from the internet, we have to imagine the impact that that story has on a child. Although it is part of the punishment that the person who committed the crime has their deeds reported in the press, one wonders about that person's children having to go to school the next day, when everyone has read what their father has been up to.
There are other impacts on the children of prisoners. Children whose parents have been in prison are much more likely to display antisocial or delinquent behaviour, and they are also much more likely to end up serving a custodial sentence themselves. In 2006, a study showed that 48 per cent. of boys whose fathers were in prison ended up being convicted themselves as adults, compared with 25 per cent. of boys who were separated from their father between birth and the age of 10 for other reasons.
Obviously, there will also be an impact on the family. I hope that people will forgive me for generalising and tending to talk about a context in which the mother stays at home and the father goes to prison. In such circumstances, the mother will obviously be distressed and may suffer emotional problems that have a knock-on effect on the children. The family is also likely to experience financial problems. If the father was the main wage earner in the house, the family may find that they have to claim benefits, move home or school and perhaps go on to free school meals.
If a single parent is imprisoned or if both parents are imprisoned, there is a real issue about who takes responsibility for the child. In a debate in the House of Lords last year, Lord Judd said that, when he visited Holloway prison with the Joint Committee on Human Rights, some prison officers said that prisoners had told them that they had left their children unattended.
Such children are sometimes taken into care or the other parent sometimes takes over responsibility. Quite often, however, informal arrangements are put in place: grandparents, friends or other relatives of the prisoner might look after the children. I am told that, when a warrant is executed for someone's arrest, the police have to notify social services that children will be in the home and social services must bear that in mind and ensure that suitable arrangements are made. However, that does not apply when someone is arrested in the course of committing a crime or in various other circumstances.
I have some concerns about such informal arrangements. In my constituency, a significant number of women are addicted to hard drugs and have children of primary school age. Quite a few of those women are involved in on-street prostitution. If a woman in that situation is given even a short sentence of imprisonment, her child might well end up living with an unsuitable boyfriend, or perhaps even her pimp; it is quite likely to be someone else who is a drug addict and who does not have the child's best interests at heart. Furthermore, if the child is, for example, a 13 or 14-year-old girl, I do not need to say what kind of concerns that would raise.
There is no systematic way of checking that the arrangements that are put in place when a parent is imprisoned are suitable for the child, which raises a number of issues. For example, who has parental responsibility for the child? If the child has an ongoing medical condition, is the person looking after them able to meet their health needs? Are they aware of the treatment that the child needs? Could they give authorisation if the child needed urgent medical treatment?
There are also financial issues, such as who gets the child benefit. If the child benefit is not passed on to the person who is caring for the child, will that person have the financial resources to meet the child's needs?
With regard to visits between the imprisoned parent and their child, will the carer be able to maintain that contact? For example, if the carer is a grandparent, they might feel that contact with the parent is not a good idea, particularly if the parent is seen as a bad influence on the child. Alternatively, grandparents may not have the financial resources or the transport to ensure that such visits happen.
There is also an issue about what children are told when a parent goes into prison. It is estimated that about a third of such children are not told anything at all about where their parent has gone. Another third are lied to—for example, they are told that their father is working away from home. Quite often in those circumstances, however, the children will find out what has happened through school, media reports or word of mouth in the local community. Obviously, if children have not been told that their parents are in prison, they will not be taken to visit them, and they will lose contact with them.
As the joint review by the MOJ and DCSF identified, we simply do not know who the children of prisoners are, where they live or who is looking after them. The children's schools do not know, the prisons do not know and the local authorities do not know. There is no reliable information out there and no statutory support.
The Government have done some good work, however. This issue was flagged up in a couple of questions in the Every Child Matters consultation, but it did not make it into the White Paper. Perhaps the Minister will comment on that. The families at risk review also flagged up this issue as an indicator to look out for.
The Sure Start children's centre practice guide gives the best guidance that I have seen on the need to personalise services for the partners, children and families of prisoners, and there is also some ad hoc good practice out there. Holloway prison has a first night in custody programme, through which it ensures that the well-being of children is checked and that mothers are reassured. That programme is flagged up when women are taken into prison.
There are no systematic mechanisms for informing schools that a child's parent has gone into custody. In one survey that I looked at only two schools had been informed by agencies and those cases involved children who had been taken into local authority care. However, some 70 per cent. of schools were informed by parents or indirectly. In-school support for children in such circumstances varies dramatically. If children have already been excluded from school, they could drop out of the system altogether, because nobody knows where they are or what their circumstances are.
What action should be taken? The starting point is the Ministry of Justice, which should consider the impact on children whenever an adult is arrested and put into police cells, is remanded in custody or is facing a prison sentence. I am told that there is guidance telling Crown court judges that they should consider the impact on a child of issuing a custodial sentence, but that there is no similar guidance for magistrates. Given that 55 per cent. of immediate custodial sentences are imposed by magistrates courts, that guidance needs to be addressed. There is an issue about whether reports are always commissioned from the probation service about the home circumstances of prisoners or potential prisoners and the impact on their children.
We do not give deferred-start custodial sentences in this country, but perhaps we should consider doing so. They are quite common in the United States. If someone needs to make complicated family arrangements or to find a carer for their children, their sentence could have a delayed start, so that they could put those arrangements in place.
Prisons need to do more to protect children's interests. What they do in that regard depends completely on prison governors and the prison regime. For example, it is not compulsory for them to facilitate visits. As I have mentioned, the cost of phone calls from prisoners to their children is very high. There are some good initiatives, such as Storybook Dads, in which fathers read stories on video tape or cassette for their children, but there is no consistent programme across the board to ensure that children are taken into account.
It is important to identify which children are affected and who is looking after them. Local safeguarding children boards have a role to play in that and in mapping what services are available locally. One good thing that we have done in recent years is to flag up the needs of young carers in the system within schools and other agencies. We could learn lessons from that approach in relation to identifying the needs of prisoners' children. For example, some young carers feel a sense of stigma about their situation if they are caring for a parent who is mentally ill, a drug addict or an alcoholic. There are lessons to learn about not waving a red flag and pointing it out to everyone that such children are young carers or have difficult family circumstances.
I agree with the joint review's conclusion:
"The focus should not be on creating a new strategy but rather personalising and developing the existing offer to children and families and embedding this in existing cross-government work".
As I have said, the Sure Start children's centre practice guide is a good example of that. It talks about working with children on addressing issues of self-esteem and reducing anxiety. It also discusses the provision of child care when the mother is visiting the father in prison and helping parents with their changed financial circumstances.
We need better co-ordination of voluntary sector help, to which funding is relevant. The sector plays a big role in running visitor centres, and the Action for Prisoners Families helpline receives about 1,200 phone calls a month. The voluntary sector also has a role to play in advising parents and carers on what to tell children about the imprisonment situation and on how to deal with the upheaval.
Schools have an important role to play, but there is a question about how much a child's situation should be flagged up. When my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was at the Home Office, she wanted to work with offenders' children to address the likelihood that they might become offenders, but we do not want to give them the impression that they have been tarred with the same brush as their parent or that they are being blacklisted.
One thing that came through powerfully in the Howard League for Penal Reform report, "When big brother goes inside", was that children did not want their teachers to know that they had a brother in prison. They thought that it was not their teacher's business, or that they might be pitied, or that their teachers would think that they were cut from the same cloth as their older brother. So there is concern that targeting could affect children in a bad way, rather than ensuring that they get the help that they need. That issue could be addressed across the board, rather than being specifically addressed in school.
Schools need to be made aware of what is happening, but perhaps the relevant children should not be taken to one side. There has been some suggestion that this issue could be addressed on a whole-class basis, with the whole class being told how to deal with children whose family members are in prison, but I can imagine a child sitting there thinking that the eyes of the whole class are on him or her. So, although it is important that these issues are flagged up, it should be done as subtly and sensitively as possible.
It is a pleasure to have you in the Chair, Mrs. Dean. I congratulate my hon. Friend Kerry McCarthy on securing the debate and on choosing this subject, which she addressed in a characteristically rounded and common-sense way. I am particularly grateful for her focus on the needs of the children whose parents are in prison, rather than simply on the adults. As she rightly says, this aspect is easily missed in everything that we are doing to focus on vulnerable families.
My hon. Friend is right to point out that there are many sensitive issues to consider in relation to information sharing, but we must address them. They should not be reasons not to take this work forward. The Government and I recognise the need to ensure that the approximately 150,000 children who have a parent in prison receive the support they need. Our Every Child Matters commitment means just that: every child, particularly the most vulnerable, matters.
There is no doubt that children with a parent in prison are among the most vulnerable. They are vulnerable in the here and now because of their family circumstances, and they are also vulnerable because of their future prospects and where they might end up. That is compounded by the fact that such children are, for reasons that we understand, much more invisible than other vulnerable children. They are spread through the school system and there is no easy way of identifying them, as there is with children in care or disabled children. That needs to be addressed.
Let me tell my hon. Friend what we are trying to do through universal services to raise awareness and make this group of children a priority. I shall also tell her about a specific initiative that places the needs of this group firmly at the heart of what we are doing. We have given local authorities significant funding for vulnerable families, targeted family support and family intervention projects. In that work, children whose parents are in prison have been identified as a priority group. In schools, which she has mentioned, there are initiatives such as the provision of parent support advisers. The training for those people will identify such children.
There is now significant funding through the voluntary sector, which is often in the best position to identify such children and work with them. Through the children, young people and families grant programme, the children of offenders have been identified as a priority group. Similarly, the work that we are doing to support better parenting is identifying offenders' children as a priority group. Some good work has been done on that. Middlesbrough local authority is using some of that resource to fund contact between children and parents in prison, as well as parenting programmes in prison. We are aware that we need to raise the consciousness of local authorities, schools and voluntary organisations, in their Government-funded work with families, of the need to identify this group of children as a priority.
I wish particularly to tell my hon. Friend about the "Think Family" initiative, which is about improving the life chances of families at risk. It is really important to ensure that individual children with parents in prison are identified properly at local level. Whatever happens after that in individual cases, there needs to be a much better link between adult services, which will be the first to know that the parent is in prison, either through the criminal justice system or other sources, and children's services.
Linking adult and children's services and ensuring that information flows between them is a problem more generally. That is why, in a report published by the Cabinet Office earlier this year, we identified that the next big step in the progressive improvement of local services, particularly for children, was to ensure the integration of children's services in social care, education, health and so on. The next important step is to ensure that professionals providing services locally think about families as a whole. Families do not split themselves up, saying, "Adults are here, children are there." They live as families including adults and children. The need for a step change in the flow of information and joint work between adult and children's services is therefore really important.
As a result of that report, my Department is funding 15 family pathfinders to develop and test the best way of implementing a "Think Family" approach to vulnerable families. They will identify some of the barriers to securing better information right across family services, and they will help with the early identification and intervention that is so important. Children of offenders, and specifically of prisoners, have been identified as a priority group for those pathfinders. They will consider what problems there are with information from the criminal justice system or adult services being passed to children's services, so that the children thus affected can be identified. Effective multi-agency teams working with a family will be based around a key worker, who can co-ordinate and communicate with the various services involved, whether for adults or for children.
The "Think Family" system change is required at all levels of local services, not just in identification and intervention, but in planning and commissioning. That perspective must suffuse service provision. A lot has been done through the children's trusts to achieve joining up, but moving to a system with really close integration between adult and children's services is also very important. That is why, building on the "Think Family" pathfinders, the youth crime action plan included a commitment to fund every local authority by 2011 to set up a crime prevention family intervention project alongside the "Think Family" reforms.
My hon. Friend rightly identified some of the excellent work in Sure Start children's centres, where under-fives whose parents are in prison can be identified. The work going on there is important. It is often practical, for instance in helping families to make arrangements in preparation for a parent serving a sentence and to book visits and keep contact going. Of course, because of the work of the children's centres, it also involves identifying the vulnerabilities of the infants and under-fives in families affected. I think that she mentioned the work done by the Fortune Park children's centre, through its link with Holloway, in running classes there and so on.
I listened carefully to what my hon. Friend said about the initiatives that she would like in the criminal justice system: a much more routine and automatic flow of information into children's services when a parent is imprisoned or held in custody, and an assessment at an appropriate time of the implications for the children. I will take it upon myself to ensure that I work with my colleagues in the Ministry of Justice to take that forward. I shall do so immediately today, by writing to them.
My hon. Friend has raised an extremely important issue, and I will take it forward. I look forward to talking further to her about it. I am aware that she has been selected to ask a question on the Floor of the House at 11.30 am, and she has asked me to finish a little early. Otherwise I would have said more, but I hope that you will allow me to conclude now, Mrs. Dean.


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I'm sorry for the rambling, today is not a good day for me, I am just plain sick, my dau is coming over to help clean my house, that is not like me at all. And the 4 yr old with her will know that "granna is sick today" and his method of making it all better is to kiss my belly and watch tom and jerry cartoons!!!
I hope this helps some with the kids, we have always just treated them like smart little people and have gotten them books and pamplets to read that are geared toward kids.I'd be happy to talk with you more on this if I can be of any help at all, I would be honored.


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Dr. Ronald E. McNair was a decorated NASA astronaut who died on January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was the first shuttle tragedy, and also took the lives of the spacecraft commander, F.R. "Dick" Scobee, the pilot, Commander M.J. Smith (USN), mission specialists, Lieutenant Colonel E.S. Onizuka (USAF), and Dr. Judith.A. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. G.B. Jarvis and Mrs. S. Christa McAuliffe, the teacher-in-space astronaut.

The Life and Times of Dr. McNair

Ronald E. McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. He was a 5th-degree black belt karate instructor and performing jazz saxophonist. He also enjoyed running, boxing, football, playing cards, and cooking.

McNair graduated from Carver High School, Lake City, South Carolina, in 1967; received BS in Physics from North Carolina A&T State University in 1971 and PhD. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976; received honorary doctorate of Laws from NC A&T State University in 1978, an honorary doctorate of Science from Morris College in 1980, and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of South Carolina in 1984.

A Scientist and Astronaut

While at MIT, Dr. McNair performed some of earliest development of chemical HF/DF and high-pressure CO (carbon monoxide) lasers. His later experiments and theoretical analysis on the interaction of intense CO2 laser radiation with molecular gases provided new understandings and applications for highly excited polyatomic molecules.

In 1975, McNair studied laser physics with many authorities in the field at E'cole D'ete Theorique de Physique, Les Houches, France. He published several papers in areas of lasers and molecular spectroscopy and gave many presentations in U.S. and abroad.

Following graduation from MIT, Dr. McNair became a staff physicist with Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. His assignments included development of lasers for isotope separation and photochemistry utilizing non-linear interactions in low-temperature liquids and optical pumping techniques. He also conducted research on electro-optic laser modulation for satellite-to-satellite space communications, the construction of ultra-fast infrared detectors, ultraviolet atmospheric remote sensing, and scientific foundations of the martial arts.

Ronald McNair: Astronaut

McNair was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978. He completed the one-year training and evaluation period in August 1979 and qualified for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut on space shuttle flight crews.

His first flight as a mission specialist was on STS 41-B launched from Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. He was part of a crew that included spacecraft commander, Mr. Vance Brand, the pilot, Cdr. Robert L. Gibson, and fellow mission specialists, Capt. Bruce McCandless II, and Lt. Col. Robert L. Stewart. The flight accomplished proper shuttle deployment of two Hughes 376 communications satellites, and the flight testing of rendezvous sensors and computer programs. It also marked the first flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) and the first use of the Canadian arm (operated by McNair) to position EVA crewman around Challenger's payload bay. Other projects for the flight were deployment of the German SPAS-01 Satellite, a set of acoustic levitation and chemical separation experiments, Cinema 360 motion picture filming, five Getaway Specials (small experimental packages), and numerous mid-deck experiments. Dr. McNair had primary responsibility for all of the payload projects. His flight on that Challenger mission culminated in first landing on the runway at Kennedy Space Center on February 11, 1984.

His last flight was aboard Challenger, and in addition to his duties as a msision specialist, he had also worked up a musical piece with composer Jean-Michel Jarre. McNair intended to perform a saxophone solo with the music while on orbit. The recording would have appeared on the album Rendez-Vous with McNair's performance. Instead, it was recorded in his memory by saxophonist Pierre Gossez, and is dedicated to McNair's memory.

Honors and Recognition

Dr. McNair was honored throughout his career, beginning in college. He graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina A&T ('71) and was named Presidential Scholar ('67-'71). He was a Ford Foundation Fellow ('71-'74) and a National Fellowship Fund Fellow ('74-'75), NATO Fellow ('75). He won the Omega Psi Phi Scholar of Year Award ('75), Los Angeles Public School System's Service Commendation ('79), Distinguished Alumni Award ('79), National Society of Black Professional Engineers Distinguished National Scientist Award ('79), Friend of Freedom Award ('81), Who's Who Among Black Americans ('80), an AAU Karate Gold Medal ('76), and also worked up Regional Blackbelt Karate Championships.

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Leaping The Disruption Chasm
By David Rabjohns
Every so often an industry-changing chasm opens up in your path. Just like an unexpected earthquake, you have to quickly decide if you are going to bravely leap across before it gets too wide or totter and fall.
At ESOMAR Congress 2012, a global conference of market research buyers and suppliers, I saw one of those chasms appear. The chasm emerged from a discussion of the future of market research and the impact of big data.
One of the presenters, Lenny Murphy of the GreenBook Blog, presented a chart that shows the new competitors to market research. These included companies like IBM, HP, SalesForce, Facebook and Google–companies that would never have been considered competitors to market research before.
What struck me is that the market research category is going through same sort of transformation that many categories have gone through in the past when new technology comes along and massively transforms the world.
When Apple introduced iTunes, it revolutionized the music business to the point where Tower Records was left scratching its head wondering, "What the hell happened?". Digital cameras transformed the digital imaging business to the point where Kodak went out of business, something that was unimaginable 10 or 15 years ago.
The most dangerous factor is that, when these new technologies arrive, it doesn't immediately impact business. It takes about 16 years from the arrival of a new technology to the complete transformation of the category. Sixteen years after the arrival of Amazon, Borders was gone.
Sixteen years after the arrival of the digital camera, Kodak was gone.
My sense is that many people in the market research industry today still feel fairly secure. They've still got customers giving them business; they've still got clients asking for help; they've still got contracts carrying on. In that environment, it's hard to imagine a world that's going to be transformed in the way that the music, book and film categories were.
But if you're in the market research industry, the lesson is be careful–because while you might feel safe and secure at the moment, things can change dramatically. Yes, it takes a little while for people's habits to change—but once they start to change, your category can transform rapidly.
If you're in market research today, don't carry on and do business as usual. Instead, ask yourself: "If I were Kodak and I saw the digital camera arrive, what are the questions I should have been asking that would have saved my business? If I you were Borders and I saw Amazon launch, how could I have protected my customers better? What are the new ways I should be looking at my category and my business model that will allow me to survive?"
Closely aligned with asking those questions, you need to think about the value of what you provide, as opposed to the product or service you provide. For example, if you're in the music business, you don't provide records; you provide musical enjoyment or music management.
If you see yourself as being in the musical-enjoyment business, you might be able to transform and make the leap from one side to the other of the chasm. If you see yourself as being in the record-making business, your vinyl is about to be smashed
The way you frame the business you're in has huge implications for the way you look at today's challenges and the way you think about the future of market research.
How are you thinking about your role in the research industry? Will you make the leap—or fall into the chasm to join the folks at Tower Records, Borders and Kodak?
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7 Responses to "Leaping The Disruption Chasm"
September 25th, 2012 at 8:46 am
Wonderful article @David! I'm part of the innovators/ technology enthusiasts group and agree 100% with you that Market Research is going through same sort of major transformation other industries have gone through when new technology comes along and massively transforms the world. As says Vivek Wadhwa, a respected global IT opinion leader, "many industries are going to be impacted by exponential technologies–greater disruption than what globalization caused".
September 25th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
@David – great analogies, and beautifully written. While most of reasons you cite is common knowledge, it is incredible how myopia can cloud one's vision, and create conditions that lead to the Borders, Kodak et al going out of business.
I do think, however, the core competence of a market researcher will still be in very high demand but will need to incorporate a much more generalist view on how the convergence of consumers and technology affect their research data (collection & finding).
Thanks again for a great topical read.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Good overview. I think many of the traditional companies have passed the chasm and are now maturing in terms of their products and services. Will facial recognition, neuroscience, image/heat mapping, MROCs, netnography etc be able to pass the chasm either on their own or inside the former organization? It's disruption not transformation. Let's check back in 5 years to see who "won?!
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October 9th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
There's an old expression, "You can't leap a chasm in two bounds." This article leads me to feel you need to be "all in" on the direction our industry is taking. I think the changes are occurring faster than we realize.
I also think we're mistaken if we think our current client contacts aren't going to change. We need to be able to meet the needs of the new decision makers. And that isn't to provide data, it's to provide insight and direction into new revenue streams.
All in all, I feel our industry is going through a very exciting upgrade in status and responsibility.
October 11th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Good article. To buld on it, I would add another lens. To me the chasm concept made famous by Silicon Valley's Jefferey Moore is about how new technology is adopted and its diffusion into the mass market. While this is a helpful lens to examine disruptive technologies coming into the market research arena, I think Clayton Christianson's Innovator's Dilema, provides a better representation of what happened at Kodak and what is happening today in the market research industry. Essentially, the Innovator's Dilema looks at the flip side of disruptive technology. That is, what is the impact on conservative companies and industries from disruptive technologies. As you rightly point out, they go on for a number of years without seeing a significant impact to their financials and stock price (Arguably, we're seeing this with Oracle right now as it is being attacked by the cloud and NoSQL movements, respectively). In fact, Chistianson argues that companies become more profitable on less volume since the last to leave (i.e. the laggards) usually provide the fattest margins. According to Christianson, Kodak clearly should have cannabilized its own markets with innovations of its own making. I would argue the same is true of the market research industry today. As it's data collection arm is cut off by commoditization, it will still be able to feel the limb for some time. During this time, the industry should focus on innovating a replacement limb rather than rationalizing how to work with one arm….As an aside, it's interesting to look at the Kodak timeline above, because I sent Mike Lotti, the now retired VP of Market Research (and a true gentleman), a copy of Christianson's book. I thought it was an important read for Kodak at the time. Arguably, there was plenty of time for them to do something. I sent the book in 2001. Mike, if you are out there- all my best.


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