Social Services category: 2206 books
Health Policy
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical detail and wider social commentary.
The...
Strengthening child protection
Sharing information in multi-agency settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Following high-profile Serious Case Reviews into the tragic deaths of children, including Victoria Climbie, Peter Connelly and Daniel Pelka, information sharing has now become a moral and political imperative for safeguarding the welfare of children. What prompts information sharing and how do we...
Finding the Right Place on the Map
Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Finding the Right Place on the Map is a crosscutting, international comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. It explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective. Each...
by Rorie Fulton, Kate Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Equality and Inclusion. It shows the importance of understanding issues of equality and inclusion in your role...
The Return of Ordinary Capitalism
Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic work ethic (even if it means working...
by Gurharpal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In the last decade the study of multiculturalism has become an established field in political and social theory. This in-depth and engaging volume focuses on public policy and the dilemmas faced by the governments of increasingly diverse societies. Offering a theoretically and empirically rich collection...
Foster Placements
Why They Succeed and Why They Fail
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places...
Between two worlds of father politics
USA or Sweden?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are...
Improving Child and Family Assessments
Turning Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned. Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poor assessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital.
This book brings together...
by Rebecca Brown, David Westlake, Harriet Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Safeguarding babies and very young children is a highly complex process, involving difficult decisions surrounding their needs, care, and whether they need to be separated from their families.
This book, based on a research study which followed babies who were identified as likely to suffer...
Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood
International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.
In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Community Care for Health Professionals presents information needed by health professionals for an effective transitioning from institutional to community-based care. The book is comprised 12 chapters that are organized into two parts.
The first part covers social policy and various issues, including...
The Early Years
Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
This clear and practical workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre-school children who live in challenging circumstances. Focusing on assessment of need, Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell show how to evaluate resilience using checklists and background information.
They explain...
by Wing-Chung Ho
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.