Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions
International Evidence for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well.
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research evidence from the UK and USA on the effectiveness of selected...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in...
by China Development Research Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it...
From Welfare to Workfare
The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past,...
Selling Welfare Reform
Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines...
Child Protection and Child Welfare
A Global Appraisal of Cultures, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.
Devoting particular attention to the role played by culture in determining child welfare...
Life After Welfare
Reform and the Persistence of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into law—amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know it"—have the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time limits and work requirements lifted...
Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2006
The need for services that respond to the ‘maltreatment’ of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations. While these child and family welfare systems confront similar problems and incorporate common elements, there are substantial...
by James Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models,...
by John J. Rodger, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental reappraisal. It is now
commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy', whether one of rediscovered charity and family values and increased welfare pluralism, or of rebuilt communities and a welfare system which provides...
Raising Government Children
A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized...
European Welfare States
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Bringing together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes, European Welfare States provides an accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states.
In particular, it provides:
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The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations
New Public Management and the Institutional Diffusion of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in different developed welfare states? New managerialism is conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also affects the practice of individuals (citizens).
Public...
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
Activating the Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating...