Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services
A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care. This book provides a comprehensive costing approach which examines how finite resources can be most effectively used...
Participation, Marginalization and Welfare Services
Concepts, Politics and Practices Across European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current debates around participation and marginalization dominate the agenda of many European political forums. There is an increasing concern about the stability of social cohesion and a growing number of particular groups of people who are regarded as being at risk of being socially excluded or...
by Duncan Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent. Furthermore,...
by Joan Shireman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Reorganized for more effective classroom use, the second edition of Critical Issues in Child Welfare begins with an updated, thorough overview of the challenges currently facing at-risk children and families. A description of the child welfare system highlights issues that are discussed in more detail...
Child Welfare Research
Advances for Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the field's top investigators present their work...
The Child Welfare Challenge
Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded...
Arguments for Welfare
The Welfare State and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare states...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare...
Contracting-out Welfare Services
Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.
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Dealing with welfare conditionality
Implementation and effects
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice. The book showcases the insights and...
Catching a Case
Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swept...
by Anton Zijderveld
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The welfare state in postwar Western Europe has been extended and intensified in a spectacular manner. Today, "welfare" represents a complex mix of services covering health, education, welfare, the arts, leisure, and social security. Anton C. Zijderveld is of the opinion that Europe's vast,...
Innovation in Social Services
The Public-Private Mix in Service Provision, Fiscal Policy and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
EU member states have seen high levels of unemployment in recent years especially amongst young people. At the same time the fiscal crisis of welfare states has made it difficult for them to invest in new jobs and new economic growth. The EU, at least since the enactment of the Amsterdam treaty, has...
Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future
The U.S. in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future by Katherine S. van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies—including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice—within a global...