Welfare and benefit systems

This book considers the impact of digital media and technology on lived experience for young people in foster care.

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people.

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts.

This textbook provides an engaging guide to psychosocial theories of child and adolescents' wellbeing, demonstrating how psychology and sociology can be used to address key contemporary issues for those working with children and adolescents.

This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children's rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic.

This textbook provides an engaging guide to psychosocial theories of child and adolescents' wellbeing, demonstrating how psychology and sociology can be used to address key contemporary issues for those working with children and adolescents.

This book explores what it means to be and become-at-home in theological perspective, located in the context of a youth club.

This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate's expectations for their behaviour as they operate within a street code that endorses violence, knife-carrying and challenging masculinity.

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

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

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.

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.

This book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health - in Australia especially - including the circumstances that lead to police use of force, and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis.

Les pathologies chez l'enfant ne sont pas fixees irremediablement, leur evolution est incertaine et le diagnostic s'avere souvent delicat.

In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured - all this in spite of the knowledge gained from the research done both in Britain and in the United States.

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.

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

This groundbreaking new book brings together policy, evidence, practice, service development and children's narrative to provide a far-reaching overview of this vulnerable and traumatised group.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally.

Laursen has given us a comprehensive account of the three decade long war against Social Security.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines the complex social and political dynamics shaping social welfare in the Middle East.

In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a significant public health and social problem.

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.