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  • Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe

    Activating the Unemployed

    Edited by Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    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 politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Frontline work plays a crucial role ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth

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  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

    by Geoffrey Rose ...
    The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years ... Read more

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  • Domestic Violence and Child Protection

    Directions for Good Practice

    by Brian Littlechild, Elaine Farmer, Kate Iwi, Lorraine Radford ...
    How do you respond simultaneously to the needs of adults experiencing domestic violence and the specific needs of their children? Domestic Violence and Child Protection explores the challenges of working effectively in this complex field and offers positive models for practice.Leading practitioners and researchers outline the essential safety considerations for children, adult victims and child ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work

    Edited by Francis J. Turner ...
    All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even professionals in the field of social work or social services have not had a comprehensive volume ... Read more

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  • A U-Turn on the Road to Serfdom

    Prospects for Reducing the Size of the State

    by Grover Norquist ...
    Series series Occasional Papers
    This book suggests that drastic reforms are required to reverse the ever-increasing size of the state, a trend experienced in most western nations. The report proposes a reassessment of the scale of government to achieve a reduction in taxation and spending. ... Read more

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  • Arguments for Welfare

    The Welfare State and Social Policy

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Series series Rowman & Littlefield International - Policy Impacts
    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 are illegitimate, that things are best left to the market, and that welfare has bad effects on the ... Read more

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  • Putting Analysis Into Child and Family Assessment, Third Edition

    Undertaking Assessments of Need

    by Ruth Dalzell, Emma Sawyer ...
    Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.It addresses the issues of central concern to child and family social workers, including analytical assessment, outlines how to avoid common pitfalls, provides strong theoretical foundations, and demonstrates how the theory can be ... Read more

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  • Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults

    Working Effectively in Adult Protection

    by Alison Bowes, Seena Fazel, Gary Fitzgerald, Ghizala Avan, Sherry Bien Macintosh, Jacki Pritchard, Jackie Parker, Arwel Owen, Jamieson Mornington, Marilyn Mornington0, Lucy Naven1, Deborah Kitson2, Simon Leslie3, Adrian Hayes4, Adrian Hughes5, Peter Sadler6 ...
    Series series Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
    Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked, such as people with brain injuries, older prisoners ... Read more

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  • Ageing and Globalisation

    by Martin Hyde, Paul Higgs ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how they interact.Ageing has been conventionally framed within the boundaries of nation states, yet demographic changes, transmigration, financial globalization and the global media have rendered this perspective ... Read more

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  • Access to Health Care

    Edited by Martin Gulliford, Myfanwy Morgan ...
    To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions.Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives to investigate key aspects of access, including:· geographical accessibility of services· ... Read more

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  • Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care

    Evidence-Based Practice

    by Siobain Bonfield, Lisa Robinson, Sam Warner, Christine Cork, Olatayo Afuape, Tonie Lawrence-Mahrra, Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Hannah Baron, Devinia Malcolm, Sheri Mosuro, Zoe Lander, Sidra Aslam, Lucie Shuker, Emily Wilkens ...
    Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes the difficulties children in care commonly encounter, such as vulnerability to self-harm, substance ... Read more

    $40.99 USD