Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding...
The Missing Child in Liberal Theory
Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community, Welfare and the Civic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
The Missing Child in Liberal Theory opens public discourse on what it is Canadians hold in common through their provision of civic assurances to children and families at risk. John O'Neill presents a strongly-worded critique of the dominant discourse of the market society. He observes the link between...
Safeguarding Adults and Children
Dilemmas and Complex Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
As more and more people and organisations are affected by the austerity agenda and cuts to public services, there is increased risk that the person-centred nature of safeguarding practice will be consumed by procedure and managerialism.With a unique focus on safeguarding both adults and children, this...
by Lida Fan
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fan’s discussion examines migration regulations, household registration, social welfare and insurance, employment, education, housing, medical care and...
Capability-promoting policies
Enhancing individual and social development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Often in their careers, social workers will encounter clients who are either legally required to attend treatment services or are otherwise coerced or pressured into those services. Practitioners in settings from prisons to emergency rooms to nursing homes to child protection agencies will find themselves...
Too Ill to Talk?
User Involvement in Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all users want to be involved? This book brings the voices of people with serious illness, and those caring for them, into debate about how far health and social...
The Community Economic Development Movement
Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
Pension Politics
Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Population ageing and slower economic growth have raised serious questions about the willingness and ability of governments to maintain current social policies. Within this new reality, discussions on the future of public pensions have been predominant in political debates across Europe.
This...
Legal aid in crisis
Assessing the impact of reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective...
by William Roth, Susan Peters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy examines the ordinary speech used to make poverty and extreme inequality seem acceptable, the corporate strategies co-opting the distribution of wealth and other resources, and the...
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families
Building Secure New Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support. Key features include:
a discussion of the main...
by Barbara J. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research,...
by Stein Ringen
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society's economic well-being as does worker productivity in formal markets. In Citizens, Families, and Reform, Stein Ringen shows how long-standing inequalities of income and class are flexible and changing...