The phrase "a universal provision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a rule, guideline, or resource that applies broadly across different contexts or situations.
Example: "The organization implemented a universal provision to ensure that all members have access to the same resources and support."
Alternatives: "a general rule" or "a common guideline."
Research also showed that as many as four in 10 children officially categorised as living in poverty were still not eligible to receive free school meals – and that a universal provision would be disproportionately beneficial to those on lower incomes.
In addition, a universal provision (i.e., not targeted to low-income families) for all 3-year-old children of 12.5 weekly hours of free educational services, for 33 weeks per year, was becoming available during this period.
Child benefit is a universal provision, payable to mothers from the birth of their children.
In October 2013, the Chief Medical Officer for England recommended that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICEexaminesnes the cost-effectiveness of changing the Healthy Start vitamin programme from a targeted to a universal provision.
We need to find the right language to explain how giving people more choice over schools and hospitals does not mean an end to universal provision of a high quality.
Analysing childcare campaigns in six countries, Goss et al. (2007) point to a link between the stratification of the movements' human resources in terms of class, and the childcare "systems" that countries implemented (i.e. a one-class integrated movement resulted in a system of universal provision).
The team modelled a study to map the cost-effectiveness of a policy of universal provision of iodine for pregnant women in the UK to show how extensive the benefits of attending to the issue might be.
To address differential access and usage of ECEC programs by Australian children a shift to universal provision for children less than 4 years of age would represent a major change, and is not currently on the short or even medium term political horizon.
However, a change to universal provision alone may not be sufficient to increase the uptake of Healthy Start vitamins.
A policy of universal provision of free Healthy Start vitamins for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and young children in Birmingham has achieved an uptake rate of 17% and, more importantly, has reduced the cases of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in children by 59% (case incidence rate fell from 120/100 000 to 49/100 000).
A policy is something that implements universal provision in an identified area of need.
