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  • Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Nigel Parton, Anne Stafford, Sharon Vincent, Connie Smith ...
    Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice.This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 18 Worried Well

    The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows

    by Gail Bell ...
    Series Book 18 - Quarterly Essay
    In The Worried Well, Gail Bell investigates Australia’s depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs?This is a fresh, frank and independent look at the depression culture and the move to medicalise sadness. Bell examines how the prescription culture operates, scrutinising the role of big drug companies and GPs and talking to those who take ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Scandinavian Unexceptionalism

    Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

    by Nima Sanandaji ...
    Series series Readings in Political Economy
    This book is important to help an international audience understand the cultural peculiarities behind the Scandinavian “success story”. It is also vital that Scandinavians themselves read this book to help them understand the market reforms that are essential for a successful future. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Raising Government Children

    A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State

    by Catherine E. Rymph ...
    In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The creation of City Districts under Local Governments in Pakistan

    by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed ...
    Series series Local Government
    This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore were studied. (Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, was not covered in the study because it was ... Read more

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  • Publics, Politics and Power

    Remaking the Public in Public Services

    by Janet E Newman, John H. Clarke ...
    Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time. - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business SchoolPublicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Getting India Back on Track

    An Action Agenda for Reform

    Edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Bibek Debroy, Reece Trevor ...
    India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Juvenile Justice System: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Terrance J. Taylor ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Helping in Child Protective Services

    A Competency-Based Casework Handbook

    by American Humane Association ...
    This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to assist vulnerable families, covering such key issues as assessment, decision ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • New Technology, Organizational Change and Governance

    Edited by E. Avril, C. Zumello ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innovative practices. This book analyzes the impact of new technologies testing empowerment, engagement and democratization against the new organizational morphology of political parties and corporations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Health and Safety in Early Years and Childcare

    Contextualising health and safety legislation within the Early Years Foundation Stage

    by Bernadina Laverty, Catherine Reay ...
    This practical guide demystifies health and safety in early years settings with a step-by-step guide to the law, compliance and practical application. Bringing together health and safety legislation and the welfare requirements within the revised Early Years Foundation Stage 2012, it successfully integrates health and safety within the EYFS.Including information taught on a variety of courses ... Read more

    $36.89 USD