Homework 2 - Deadline MAR 14, 23:55

• Read again the cases of „Child A“, „Ruth“ and „Jake“ in Locality. 2014. Saving money by doing the right thing : Why 'local by default' must replace 'diseconomies of scale'. (pp 25-33).
• Pick one of these cases.
• Imagine the story of this person (and their families) from your selected case is happening in your country. Which public services would be involved in their lives?
• Investigate, what are the goals of these organisations? How these measure their performance? What main tasks (related to the case) have these organisations? Look into official documents or other information sources to discover the objectives of the organisations, ideally including information on what is measured in the organisation.
• Think about how well the goals of these organisations enable the staff of these organisation to really help people.

Write two page essay (550-650 words) that would

-          indicate which case you deal with,

-          provide a list of public services/organisations involved if this case is happening in your country,

-          discuss how at least some of the involved organisations are managed (in terms of their main goals and measures used for these goals),

-          relate the management of these organisations to what you learned in the resources for this topic – Is it more like in „Hospital waiting times“ video and Bevan&Hood article? Or is it supporting functionings and capabilities of people in Sen’s meaning (and as in practices of Locality or Life project by Participle)?

Notes:

Make sure you properly understand and use terms targets, performance indicators, functionings and capabilities as in the literature you have read.