Welfare and benefit systems

The rapid political changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have had repercussions for many elements of the socialist system.

This book provides social work practitioners and allied professionals with an applied understanding of the formal legislation, policy and guidance relating to young people who are considered 'at risk' of, accused of, or convicted of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour.

Children have a right enshrined within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to participate in decisions that affect them, and their participation in social care services can have a positive impact on their own self-esteem and confidence, but also the quality of service and decisions made by the social care professionals working with them.

Methamphetamine not only destroys the lives of those who become addicted to it, but affects all corners of society, including innocent children.

This book provides social work practitioners and allied professionals with an applied understanding of the formal legislation, policy and guidance relating to young people who are considered 'at risk' of, accused of, or convicted of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour.

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away.

Children throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work.

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.

This book assesses which work-family policies work best, and explains why they are unlikely to be adopted everywhere.

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.

Die Gestaltung inklusiver Gemeinden, integrativer Sozialräume und solidarischer Gemeinwesen bedarf einer Kultur des Zusammenwirkens zwischen diakonischen Einrichtungen und Kirchengemeinden.

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families.

If you are in search of a concise yet authoritative overview of mediation as a process of dispute resolution, then you need look no further.

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force.

Innovative Skills to Support Well-Being and Resiliency in Youth emphasizes the step-by-step procedures readers will need to implement evidence-based, innovative techniques and skills that emphasize well-being and resilience in youth.

Based on a qualitative study of child protection practices this book takes a detailed look at what professionals actually 'do', contrasting the relatively straightforward process illustrated in procedural guidance with the uncertainty of the 'real world' of child protection work.

This book explores how the increasing need for specific kinds of parental engagement impacts care-experienced young peoples' trajectories.

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

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

Residential Child Care draws on the latest research to offer guidance for developing best practice, policy and improved outcomes for children and young people.

* What are attachment difficulties?

An evaluation of the most enduring privatisation of the Thatcher era Written in an accessible style, this is a key reference for students and researchers in housing and planning; geography; and social policy.

In this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to social policy.

Justice as Welfare provides an egalitarian account of distributive justice by rethinking notions of welfare.

"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.

The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry.

With 50 percent new material, this third edition breaks this complex topic into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programs that address it, current research, and public perceptions of homelessness.

A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders.

The second edition of Children s Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse.

Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.

Der Bereich der ambulanten Hilfen zur Erziehung - im Wesentlichen rechtlich normiert in den §§ 27, 29-31 und 35 SGB VIII - erfuhr in den vergangenen 40 Jahren quantitativ und qualitativ einen signifikanten Ausbau, eine ständige Weiterentwicklung sowie Diversifizierung.

Providing a wide spectrum of views, the authors explore the fine line between normalized physical punishment and illegal or unacceptable physical and emotional abuse of children.

Reziprozität - Gegenseitigkeit - ist ein theoretisches Konzept der Sozialwissenschaften.

In Helping Families with Troubled Children Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years.

Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care.

Als Praxishandbuch bietet das Buch eine kompakte Darstellung der konkreten Verfahrensschritte der Sozialpädagogischen Familiendiagnose einschließlich praktischer Beispiele.

Social service agencies are facing the same expectations in quality management and outcomes as private companies, compelling staff members and researchers to provide and interpret valid and useful research to stakeholders at all levels in the field.

Based on a qualitative study of child protection practices this book takes a detailed look at what professionals actually 'do', contrasting the relatively straightforward process illustrated in procedural guidance with the uncertainty of the 'real world' of child protection work.

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics.

Relationships play an important role in human development, especially in the first years of life.

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

Death is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children.

Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives.

With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment.