Publications - 2005

2005 reports (most recent listed first)

NPC's approach to analysing charities: Funding success
NPC's report, Funding success, describes NPC's former methods for research and charity analysis. An updated version was published in 2010. Read more on NPC's current approach to charity analysis.

Careers guidance: What next?
A report looking at ways to improve careers education and guidance for young people up to the age of 19.

Truancy and exclusion: School's out?
A report examining why some children are more at risk of truanting or being excluded than others, and outlines how charities are filling the gap where government is failing. (See Misspent youth, which calculates the costs of truancy and exclusion.)

Disabled children: Ordinary lives
A report exploring the issues facing disabled children and their families, and highlighting activities that are most likely to benefit disabled children. (See What price an ordinary life?, which examines the financial costs and benefits of supporting disabled children and their families.)

Children with terminal conditions: Valuing short lives
A report outlining the requirements of families with children who have life-limiting conditions, compared with the reality of the services they receive.

HIV/AIDS in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda: Out of the shadows:
A report examining the approaches donors can take in tackling the causes and effects of HIV and AIDS in Africa.

HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS in Africa:
This report is aimed at donors who wish to fund projects to help those affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa, suggesting how they might channel their funds most effectively.

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