Social Services category: 2206 books
by Liz Tilly
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 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 Person Centred Approaches. It explains person centred values, how they must influence all aspects of your work...
The Politics of Child Protection
Contemporary Developments and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy developments over recent years.
This book brings you a critical analysis of these developments from a leading writer and...
Behind from the Start
How America's War on the Poor is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country. Blanket statements are often tossed around in the political arena, public debate sphere, and progressive rhetoric. But the statistic remains intangible for many Americans, likely because...
Society at a Glance 2011
OECD Social Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This sixth edition of Society at a Glance, OECD's biennial overview of social indicators, updates some indicators from previous volumes and introduces several new ones. It also features a special chapter on unpaid work. It includes data on the four newest OECD members: Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia....
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...
by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former...
Welfare Reform
A Comparative Assessment of the French and U. S. Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance. Throughout the advanced industrialized nations, welfare reforms incorporate...
by Justine Barksby, Lucy Harper
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 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 Duty of Care. It will help you to understand how duty of care affects the people you support, their family carers,...
Contemporary Family Justice
Policy and Practice in Complex Child Protection Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Demonstrating how the law and statutory guidance applies in practice, this book is a critical account of current family justice policy and practice.
It draws on recent legislation, case law and research findings to provide clear, accessible information and advice on how to make the difficult...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about welfare states...
Clear blue water?
The Conservative Party and the welfare state since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party policy and practice in the modern era. The book takes as its main starting point the progressive One...
by Laurinda Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this topic,...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China
The Authoritarianism That Listens?
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In the past few decades, the change in China’s welfare system has been characterised by a balanced distribution of benefits across social sectors and the institutionalization of welfare redistribution. This process has occurred without significant political change that would empower politically...
by Professor Harry Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe?Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality...