Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
Finding and Using International Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.
This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking...
The Welfare Experiments
Politics and Policy Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2004
Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical—and unexpected—role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained...
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
On the Frontlines of the Welfare State
How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.
Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agencies function...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even...
Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families
Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglected children across services.
Based on a substantial...
Client and Agency
Working Class Responses to Casework
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
It is a startling and somewhat disturbing fact that social work researchers-as well as research psychiatrists and psychologists-have rarely explored the treatment situation from the standpoint of the client. Client and Agency, first published in the 1960s, explores by means of free-fl owing interviews,...
by Bent Greve
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Definitions of the welfare state often focus on how and why a state intervenes in the economy and welfare of the individual citizen. A welfare state does not, however, have to mean state intervention; it may merely reflect the state’s restrictions and the demands of the labor market, families, and...
Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The recent global financial crisis has increased the scope of poverty and inequality. The gap between the richest and poorest nations has become wider. National income inequality has also been on the rise. The prospect of a shift in designing and implementing development and welfare policies is strong...
The Bureaucrat and the Poor
Encounters in French Welfare Offices
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration, The Bureaucrat and the Poor provides a realistic...
The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras
From Emancipation to Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Nordic welfare states are known for a unique combination of equity and efficiency and for political institutions facilitating compromise and consensus between conflicting interests. The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras: From Emancipation to Discipline analyses the historical and contemporary evolution...
Beyond the Welfare State
Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?
In...
Inside the Welfare State
Foundations of Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World War II. Revealing dimensions of social policy that have been neglected by scholars, this study uncovers...
The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.
This...