Welfare and benefit systems

With the growth of parental employment, leave policy is at the centre of welfare state development and at the heart of countries' child and family policies.

The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing.

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences.

Prior to the onset of the recent financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialised societies were indicating a progressive disengagement of the State, in favour of tax-financed measures similar to social assistance, which may fail to ensure a basic standard of living.

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services.

Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease of life and has been re-organised to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally.

Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books.

In the UK, both Conservative and New Labour welfare strategies have been influenced by American policies.

Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1950 until his death in 1973.

The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children.

Government is currently committed to radical reform of the welfare system underpinning social citizenship in Britain.

Human development is about the growth of agency, which is developed in interaction with their parents and families but if parental agency is insufficient, agency in the form of child welfare will be required to fill the gaps.

This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people.

Children and families are at the heart of social work all over the world, but, until now Nordic perspectives have been rare in the body of English-language child welfare literature.

This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today.

Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) was a major strategic effort by New Labour towards ending child poverty.

This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic.

"e;Growing up with risk"e; provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people.

Public social services are increasingly being individualised in order to better meet the differentiated needs of competent and independent citizens and to promote the effectiveness of social interventions.

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical.

Teenage parenthood is recognised as a significant disadvantage in western industrialised nations.

The notion of the European Social Model (ESM) has been one of the fastest growing in European political and academic discourse in recent years.

How to respond to the needs of working parents has become a pressing social policy issue in contemporary Western Europe.

While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention.

What is it like to be a child growing up in Britain these days?

There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe.

Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with detailed analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.

In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are undergoing major transformations.

This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South.

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century.

many vulnerable children require one-to-one help from adults.

This text examines the enormous pressure placed on University students in Japan, Korea and Taiwan which have led to the rapid expansion of the "e;cramming"e; industry and to a growing number of students looking to religion and spirituality for guidance.

Those who work in childcare and educational settings have an ethical and legal responsibility to take into account children's cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds.

How does the world look to a one-year-old?

Drawing on in-depth interviews with social workers and their managers, and families and young people themselves, the authors of this important book show how the principles embodied in the Assessment Framework have been applied to social work practice.

In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims.

Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care.

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The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and evidence-informed approaches to working across a wide range of issues.

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, the welfare state is a well-worn analytical concept.

The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent.

The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and from the market as the foremost instrument for the efficient allocation of scarce resources.

The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and from the market as the foremost instrument for the efficient allocation of scarce resources.

The "e;living wage"e; is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years.

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Written by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive.

The first book offering support for parents and carers of children and young people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), this guidebook explains the condition as well as the impact that it may have in education settings, family life and socialisation.