Social Services category: 2206 books
Developing Advocacy for Children and Young People
Current Issues in Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
'The role of an advocate for children is one that I perform myself which is why I have found much of the research presented in this book so interesting... We are all on the same side battling to improve life for children who have, through no fault of their own, been handed a very bad set of cards.' -...
Helping in Child Protective Services
A Competency-Based Casework Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge...
Moving on from Munro
Improving children's services
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Four years after the publication of the influential Munro Report (2011) this important publication draws together a range of experts working in the field of child protection to critically examine what impact the reforms have had on multi-agency child protection systems in this country, at both local...
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 Child Welfare Challenge
Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded...
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,...
Gender and Community Care
Social Work and Social Care Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
Are there differences in the way that men and women care? Are the care needs of women and men perceived as being different? What do we mean by community? Is being cared for always a positive experience? How can social workers and social care workers work positively with individual differences?Much has...
Micro-enterprise and personalisation
What size is good care?
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Shifts to independent delivery of health and social care services have led to increased numbers of micro-enterprises. Could these tiny organisations with just 5 or fewer employees be the best way of delivering cost-effective health and social care services in the context of decreased budgets and increased...
Taken
The Inspirational True Story Of One Mother's Epic Win Against Social Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
SHE FOUGHT THE LAW, AND THE LAW LOST
Sue O’Callaghan was one of us. Just an ordinary mum, living an ordinary life, in a nice house with her husband and family. Ordinary, that is, until the day her husband took the children for a walk and never came home.
Like any mother, she was worried:...
Accessibility and Active Offer
Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading...
Reasserting the Public in Public Services
New Public Management Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not working as intended, especially in public service...
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...
by Joan Shireman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Reorganized for more effective classroom use, the second edition of Critical Issues in Child Welfare begins with an updated, thorough overview of the challenges currently facing at-risk children and families. A description of the child welfare system highlights issues that are discussed in more detail...
A Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services
Learning to Work Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A Handbook for Inter-professional Practice in the Human Services: Learning to Work Together is an essential text for all students of inter-professional education, and for practitioners looking to understand and develop better inter-agency working.
With an emphasis on working collaboratively...