Social Services category: 2206 books
Postcommunist Welfare States
Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social...
by Jackie Pountney, Lesley Barcham
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book an invaluable resource in helping you to achieve the units on the role of the learning disability worker. You will find the book easy to navigate,...
Money for everyone
Why we need a citizen's income
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. This much-needed book, written by an experienced...
by Simon Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Principles of Safeguarding and Protection. You will learn how to recognise and respond to signs of abuse and how...
Theorising the Practice of Community Development
A South African Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby’s ground-breaking monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of concrete examples of community development...
A Localized Culture of Welfare
Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and...
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
A Guide for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its accompanying Codes of Practice continue to have a huge impact on mental health professionals working with some of the most vulnerable people throughout England and Wales. Whether you are a Social Worker, Best Interest Assessor, Mental Health Nurse, Doctor, Psychiatrist...
Mental Health Law in England and Wales
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Lecturers, click here to request your electronic inspection copy.
This is a complete guide to the Mental Health Act 1983, and is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference guide for any mental health professional – from social workers, psychologists and occupational therapists, to doctors and...
'Enough to Keep Them Alive'
Indian Social Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Far from being a measure of progress or humanitarian aid, Indian welfare policy in Canada was used deliberately to oppress and marginalize First Nations peoples and to foster their assimilation into the dominant society. 'Enough to Keep Them Alive' explores the history of the development and administration...
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014
Understanding Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality...
Listening to Children
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
'Listening to children' is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing. Often, however, there is a lack of critical attention to what it really means: How does one listen? How can one evidence that listening has taken place? Starting...
Trapped in America's Safety Net
One Family's Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest...
Working with Female Offenders
A Gender-Sensitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Praise for Working with Female Offenders
"Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working with girl and women offenders."
—Meda Chesney-Lind, Professor, Women's Studies...
Good times, bad times (revised edition)
The welfare myth of them and us
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare...