Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Understanding Family Support
Policy, Practice and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.
Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy...
by Mayo, Marjorie
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Access to justice for all, regardless of the ability to pay, has been a core democratic value. But this basic human right has come under threat through wider processes of restructuring, with an increasingly market-led approach to the provision of welfare. Professionals and volunteers in Law Centres...
Eradicating Child Maltreatment
Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Is it possible to overcome the enduring problem of child maltreatment?
In Eradicating Child Maltreatment, leading international figures in the field of child welfare address this enduring and thorny question, setting out a public health approach to prevention. It draws on groundbreaking research...
The Social Origins of the Welfare State
Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives...
The Work Versus Welfare Trade-off: 2018
An Analysis of the Total Level of Welfare Benefits by State
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In 1995, the Cato Institute published a groundbreaking study, The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of the full package of welfare benefits available to a typical recipient in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that not only did the value of such benefits...
Social Welfare for a Global Era
International Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students,...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.
It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however,...
All our welfare
Towards participatory social policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory...
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...
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1996
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing...
The political economy of the Irish welfare state
Church, state and capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The political economy of the Irish welfare state provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital. Using official estimates, Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state...
Welfare Reform in Canada
Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social...
Religion and faith-based welfare
From wellbeing to ways of being
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development...