The public defenses of affirmative action have not convinced the majority of Americans that the policy is necessary and just. The notion that merit and qualifications for academic places and jobs can be judged solely by test scores and grades is seriously called into question by the numerous studies analyzed in Affirmative Action and the Meanings of Merit. These studies show that many affirmative action beneficiaries have succeeded in higher education and various occupations despite not having t...
Report of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Inquiry into Planning for Housing
Adjudication Officers Guide
Mental Capacity Act 2005 / Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Flip Workbook
by M. Lyne
Connecting Technology and Regeneration Aspirations
by Alex Burfitt, Ed Ferrari, John Gibney, Stewart MacNeill, and Andy Tice
Runaway and Homeless Youth (Crs Reports)
by Congressional Research Service
Child Sexual Exploitation on the Internet
by Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly Mitchell
Supporting People
Confident Parents, Confident Children
by Gillian Pugh, Erica De'Ath, and Celia Smith
What to Do When Your Family Can't Afford Health Care (Let's Work It Out) (Let's Work It Out (Paper))
by Rachel Lynette
Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom
by Anne Stafford, Sharon Vincent, Nigel Parton, and 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 devolution, the authors consider and critically analyse the way child protection systems are being develop...
Gambling and Debt Pathfinder Study (RIHSC Research Reports and Occasional Papers)
by Carolyn Downs and Ryan Woolrych
Families Raising Disabled Children
by J McLaughlin Fisher, Goodley D, Clavering E, and P, Donaldson
Samverkan, Inom LSS verksamheter och socialpsykiatrin, på gott och på ont
by Mary Elisa Kinlund
It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today. This important new study considers the reality of the church's involvement to offer compelling and concrete recommendations for the future. It proposes a transformational model of welfare that breaks free from the default approach of `eradicating the five giant evils - squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease'. Instead the authors focus on fostering five assets - relationship, creativity, partn...
Understanding Risk & Trust
This book explores the concepts of 'risk' and 'trust' that are theoretical tools and arguably major facets of late modernity. New conceptions of trust and risk are rapidly changing theoretical knowledge bases of social science disciplines. A sociologically informed understanding of risk and trust illustrates the interconnectedness of an ageing population and social welfare. From this perspective, risk and trust are more than a calculation of costs and benefits, they are theoretical mechanisms fo...