However some managers and clinical staff felt that due to resource pressures, this was the time to really reflect and use the situation to create necessary changes and improvements.
Processes of reflection within the organisation varied according to professions; some had embedded models and specific reflective spaces, although on occasion these had stopped due to resource pressures, and there were some informal processes at a peer level.
Raising the threshold to manage resource pressures has had relatively minor impact on demand, not least because there remains a strong subjective element (or professional judgment) to assessment.
Given the many complex political and resource pressures at play, the use of biofuels in aviation and other industries is unlikely ever to be free of controversy.
In addition to taking sustainability measures to improve their own resource efficiency, business leaders will find it increasingly necessary to commit time, money and expertise to help relieve systemic resource pressures.
Social work can be justly proud of how it meets such vulnerability with compassion.Even before the cuts, in 2008 the Commission for Social Care Inspection concluded that "resource pressures are limiting the range of services to assist families of children in need".
And these resource pressures are putting strains on the economic, social and political outlook of these and other fast growing countries in the Latin American region and more globally.
Further guidance, more leadership and greater clarity about responsibilities may all play a part, but the current situation also points to a wider malaise reflecting fundamental resource pressures on all parts of the system.
There are many which are doing really well, often facing the same resource pressures but making it work anyway; almost always because of strong, focused practice leadership, people who know what they need to achieve for children and families, and know how to get there.
Urban areas can be rendered vulnerable due to multiple exacerbating factors such as rapid and unplanned development, environmental degradation, precarious livelihoods and resource pressures.
