Foster Care and Families (North Pacific Studies)
by Ruth Hubbell McKey
Achievable Standards of Care for the Elderly Patient in the City and Hackney Health Authority (Project paper, #72)
Welfare Reform in Rural Places (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, #15)
Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas. This book seeks to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. "International Perspectives on Rural Welfare" provides a critical,...
Social assistance dynamics in Europe
Throughout Europe income support for the poor has become highly controversial. It is often assumed to be not the answer to, but the cause of social exclusion, and is increasingly believed to give rise to welfare dependency. This book contributes to a more complex understanding of welfare state regimes and welfare recipients in contemporary Europe. Describing social assistance 'careers' in different national and urban contexts, it documents the strong interplay between personal biographies and p...
This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families, or organizations were randomly assigned to alternative policy regimes, to see what difference a policy change would make in their everyday behavior. Information on experimental designs, locations, generalizability, references, and the existence of public-use access to the underlying data are included in the summaries.
Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life
by OECD Publishing
Activities to Promote and Strengthen Children's Sense of Racial, Cultural and Adoptive Identity
by Monica Duck, Franca Brenninkmeyer, Beryl Coley, and Sue Dromey
Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that only educational and social reform will alleviat...
Buying and Selling Social Care (Social Services Policy Forum Paper, #5)
Who Cares?