Signals of the Future: An Issues Paper Social Development Framework

The NPSP Social Development Framework needs to be a tool that enables a proactive response to social change, enabling Council to take the ignals being sent about what the future is likely to bring and developing a coherent response to them.Consequently, this Future Issues Paper is the outcome of an `environmental scanning' process. This is a key forecasting tool that helps to identify trends, events, emerging issues and the unexpected in order to discern the signals sent by the future. It provides an `antenna for tuning into future possibilities'.

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