We talked to a lot of special education folks, and they didn't even realize they aren't allowed to say, 'Come back in three months.' " Across the country, advocates for people with disabilities said that preschool children receive a patchwork of services.
Given Australia's vast unpopulated spaces, geographic and climatic variation and culturally diverse population shaped by a long history of immigration, it is not surprising that the range of early childhood services is equally diverse and disparate, often described as a "patchwork" of services (Goodfellow, 1999).
These included relatively small programs, including one health plan and one academic medical center, and three larger programs implemented by safety-net institutions, entities that provide a patchwork of services to the uninsured, under-insured and indigent populations who would otherwise have little access to health care services.
Strictly speaking Hong Kong does not have an LTC "system", as opposed to a patchwork of services in having to deal with sporadic needs of the aged population as and when they arose historically; although there have been a myriad of sub-system level internal needs assessment exercises and external consultancy reports over the years.
Discourses of investment in stronger standards reflected recognition by policymakers that inconsistent standards and a patchwork of ECEC service provision can lead to uneven access to quality in ECEC for children.
"Early help is a patchwork of different services and people, with it too often being a matter of chance if abuse or neglect is prevented or detected early".
But even in Colorado, there are still significant gaps in the services available to women across our state, whether it is a patchwork of prevention services, arbitrary policy restrictions on certain life-saving procedures, or education about family planning.
This raises the possibility of an increasing number of consumers claiming that they do not watch live TV, but instead use their set to watch a patchwork of catchup services, and so do not meet the criteria necessitating the purchase of a TV licence.
Vulnerable citizens at risk for unnecessary suffering and unnecessarily costly care and the taxpayers and philanthropists that fund this work would be better served by larger regional private entities bringing together a patchwork of relevant services.
Instead, they often rely on cash and a patchwork of alternative financial services to shop, cash their paychecks and pay their bills.
