Welfare and benefit systems

Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.

An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.

Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability provides a comprehensive guide to family-centred practice for social workers.

A wide-ranging analysis of public and elite attitudes reveals a hegemonic order through the early 1980s, built around public support for the institutions of the Canadian welfare state.

Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world.

First published in 1993.

How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states?

Finalist in the Professional Books category of the 2018 Nursery World Awards.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

Of the many functions of the welfare state, two are particularly prominent: the 'Robin Hood' function - the provision of poverty relief, the redistribution of income and wealth, and the reduction of social exclusion; and the 'piggy bank' function - ensuring mechanisms for insurance and for redistribution over the life cycle.

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas.

The first major historical study of social trust in modern Britain, this book offers a fresh perspective on friendly societies.

It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect.

Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society.

Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss.

Is medication the right choice for treating your childs emotional or behavioral problems?

Two scholars offer health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe.

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market changing?

The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

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.

Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.

Parental drug use can cause serious harm to children.

Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?

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

Without some form of outside assistance, physical disability is very likely to create economic hardship for victims of accident or illness.

What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them?

This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child protection has evolved.

The potential for early intervention to prevent social problems later in life has become the focus of much debate in recent years and finds itself at the centre of contemporary social policy.

Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.

Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies in a new light.

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members.

Supporting Bereaved Students at School provides educational professionals with essential information to support bereaved students.

Hamilton proposes the elimination of the arbitrary barrier that has kept survivors of childhood sexual abuse out of court – the statutes of limitation.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states?

Focusing on distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change.

Housing Policy in the UK is a major new textbook that traces the emergence of a 'new comprehensive housing policy' in the wake of the Communities Plan and regionalisation.

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care.

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe.

This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.

Containing concise but detailed summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios and conditions likely to be encountered by trainees, paediatricians, therapists, nurses, and allied professionals in their day-to-day practice, Community Paediatrics is the ideal companion for anyone working with children in the community.

Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with children, young people and families.