Social Services category: 2206 books
Creating Citizen-Consumers
Changing Publics and Changing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as consumerism and...
Innovation in Social Services
The Public-Private Mix in Service Provision, Fiscal Policy and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
EU member states have seen high levels of unemployment in recent years especially amongst young people. At the same time the fiscal crisis of welfare states has made it difficult for them to invest in new jobs and new economic growth. The EU, at least since the enactment of the Amsterdam treaty, has...
Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services
A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care. This book provides a comprehensive costing approach which examines how finite resources can be most effectively used...
Publics, Politics and Power
Remaking the Public in Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
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"Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time." - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business...
by Marc ; Alexandre
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The last twenty years has witnessed a growing recognition of the importance of considering cultural and ethnic diversity in the design and implementation of development programs. The increasing cultural diversity of societies throughout the world and the important role of culture in identity formation...
Leadership and Change in Human Services
Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
For over forty years Wolf Wolfensberger has been a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His work on normalization and citizen advocacy in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been acknowledged by supporters and critics alike to have been...
by Lorraine Kerr, Ed Carson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Australian Social Policy and the Human Services introduces readers to the complex field of social policy development, implementation and evaluation. Drawing on the evolution of policymaking practices and debates surrounding the delivery of human services, the text explores the links between policy...
Keeping Families Together
The Homebuilders Model
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised to place children outside the home. Family preservation services such as Homebuilders are designed to give caseworkers and families another option: services...
by Parker, Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children’s services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects...
Participation, Marginalization and Welfare Services
Concepts, Politics and Practices Across European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current debates around participation and marginalization dominate the agenda of many European political forums. There is an increasing concern about the stability of social cohesion and a growing number of particular groups of people who are regarded as being at risk of being socially excluded or...
Partnerships in Social Care
A Handbook for Developing Effective Services
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Partnerships in Social Care is a practical handbook for professionals engaged in planning strategic partnerships in health, social care and education services.
The author proposes that service providers consider five key questions when setting up new partnerships:
* Is this partnership...
Reinventing Human Services
Community- and Family-Centered Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the...
Critical Supervision for the Human Services
A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals'...
School Health Services in India
The Social and Economic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
While the contribution of education to health has gained recognition, the reciprocal relationship between health and education and its outcomes have not been adequately studied. This work broadens the perspective on school health in India by locating it within the epidemiological and socio-economic...