Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Interprofessional Collaboration
From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Interprofessional collaboration in the health and social care services has become a commanding force, spear-headed by the Government's modernisation programme to improve partnership.
Interprofessional Collaboration highlights the benefits and factors arising from working together for patients, service...
The Failed Welfare Revolution
America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's...
Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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Back to the Present: Rethinking Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift
The question of “risk” and “risk assessment” in child welfare are explored in chapter 10. Callahan and Swift explain the managerial, medical, and legal influences that...
by Eileen Munro
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
'Effective Child Protection is a significant contribution to child welfare practice and policy...Munro offers a pathway to achieving better outcomes for children and families who are recipients of child protection services' - Children and Youth Services Review
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls. It considers the implications for the both those subject to controls and those drawn into the web of implementing internal welfare controls....
by Roger Burrows, Brian D Loader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the...
After Welfare
The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this...
by Ann Dill
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The point of departure for Managing to Care is widespread concern that the present delivery of health and social welfare services is fragmented, uncoordinated, inefficient, costly, wasteful, and ultimately detrimental to clients' health and wellbeing. Dill traces the evolution of case management from...
Family Group Conferencing
New Directions in Community-Centered Child and Family Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Family Group Conferencing indicates a large-scale shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered - away from models that emphasize pathology, and toward those seeking an ecological understanding of the families and social networks involved. The contributors also...
by Gosta Esping-Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare...
by James Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues...
Never Enough
Americas Limitless Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more-much more-to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never...
Social policy in times of austerity
Global economic crisis and the new politics of welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based...
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...