Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Public Works and Social Protection in sub-Saharan Africa
Do public works work for the poor?
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Public Works Programmes (PWPs) are widely implemented throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa, often with funding from major international donor agencies. They are perceived to present a "win-win" policy option, providing employment to the chronically poor while also creating assets for...
The Masses are the Ruling Classes
Policy Romanticism, Democratic Populism, and Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Masses are the Ruling Classes proposes the radical, yet seemingly innocuous view that social policy in the United States is determined by mass consent. Contemporary explanations of decision making in the US typically attribute power over policy making to a variety of hidden forces and illegitimate...
Vulnerability and young people
Care and social control in policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often escape attention. This distinctive book...
by Michael Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Focusing on human welfare and the environment from a social policy perspective, this text shows how environmental concerns are becoming increasingly central to policy-making and discusses the roles of central and local government in relation to environmental issues.
The Environment and Social Policy...
Training and supporting the care force
- that's nearly all of us
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
‘I expect that’s common sense, isn’t it?' This innocent comment on my job as a social care teacher always makes me smile. 'Training and supporting the care force’ is not common sense – it’s not rocket science either. Social carers generally are undervalued by society, so often undervalue...
Faith In Action
Guiding Principles of The Salvation Army Social Services Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
THIS GUIDE CONNECTS THE SALVATION ARMY’S HISTORY, THEOLOGY, AND VALUES WITH A DISTINCT SET OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICES THAT AFFIRM ITS MISSION. If you’re seeking to increase your understanding of The Salvation Army’s holistic approach to social services, you will find FAITH IN ACTION to be a hands-on...
Six speeches of the New Deal
There is another way to leave the crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book contains six speeches and three letters containing, in simple language that FDR used to address citizenship, the main actions of its program and policy justification but above all moral. One way frivolous and cavalier, hegemonic neoliberal thinking has eluded the history of capitalism without...
Social policy 3e
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion...
The Social Worker Speaks
A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Social Worker Speaks charts the motivations, work activities and attitudes of social workers across the country from 1904 to 1989. The book is about workers in the public sector (from Poor Law to Social Services Departments), probation and workers in the voluntary field (including early century...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...
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...
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...
Critical Reflections on Health Services Development in India
The Teleology of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The book undertakes a critical examination of health service development in India and provides an explanation of its underdevelopment. It analyzes the trajectory of health services development in India and dissects the roles of various actors which shape that process viz. the State, civil society,...
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...