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Family Policy (Paperback)
Fran Wasoff, Ian Dey; Edited by Pete Alcock, Professor Peter Alcock (S Ed)
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R984
Discovery Miles 9 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Family Policy focuses on the main family activities that are of
concern in social policy and social work. This book explores how
families behave and questions the implications for policies and
practice. Perceptions of and responses to family 'pathologies' -
teenage pregnancies, family breakdown, family poverty and violence
- are examined. Core issues in family policy are considered, to
help students to understand and evaluate the family policies at the
hear of Labour's welfare reforms. This will be a valuable text,
particularly for HE students with little previous knowledge of
family policy.
Crime and Social Policy discusses the criminal justice system in
England and Wales in an accessible and engaging manner. This title
guides students through the system's complexities, reviewing its
history, highlighting current problems, and offering
recommendations as to where and how it can be improved.
Crime and Social Policy discusses the criminal justice system in
England and Wales in an accessible and engaging manner. This title
guides students through the system's complexities, reviewing its
history, highlighting current problems, and offering
recommendations as to where and how it can be improved.
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Family Policy (Hardcover)
Fran Wasoff, Ian Dey; Edited by Pete Alcock, Professor Peter Alcock (S Ed)
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R5,483
Discovery Miles 54 830
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Family Policy focuses on the main family activities that are of
concern in social policy and social work. This book explores how
families behave and questions the implications for policies and
practice. Perceptions of and responses to family 'pathologies' -
teenage pregnancies, family breakdown, family poverty and violence
- are examined. Core issues in family policy are considered, to
help students to understand and evaluate the family policies at the
hear of Labour's welfare reforms. This will be a valuable text,
particularly for HE students with little previous knowledge of
family policy.
What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the 'common good' for all?
And how should we go about providing it? Pete Alcock, a
well-respected expert, explains the challenges that collective
welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering
it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and
where it is delivered. His primary focus is on the UK, including
the problems of poverty and inequality, and how recent political
and economic changes have undermined public investment; but he also
draws on international examples from Europe and other OECD
countries, such as the impact of private health care in the USA.
Why we need welfare is a call for new forms of collective action to
meet welfare needs in the 21st century. It offers a fresh
perspective on the key issues involved, and is a great introduction
to this important and topical debate.
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the
London School of Economics from 1950 until his death in 1973. His
publications on welfare and social policy were radical and
wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class
inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss's work
played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy
as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of
the British Welfare State and influenced thinking about social
policy worldwide.Despite its continuing relevance to current social
policy issues both in the UK and internationally, much of Titmuss's
work is now out of print. This new book brings together a selection
of his most important writings on a range of key social policy
issues, together with commentary on these from contemporary experts
in the field. The book should be read by undergraduate and
postgraduate students in social policy and sociology, for many of
whom Titmuss remains compulsory reading. It will be of interest to
academics and other policy analysts as well as students and
academics in political science and social work.
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. Continuing with the
unbeaten narrative style and accessible approach of the previous
editions, the authors explore the major topics of social policy in
a clear and digestible way. By breaking down the complexities
behind policy developments and their outcomes, the book
demonstrates the relationship between core areas of policy and the
society we live in. This new edition has been thoroughly revised
and updated to cover the impact of Brexit and contains reflections
on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for social policy.
Each chapter contains comprehension activities to aid
understanding, as well as helpful summary points and suggestions
for further reading.
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Housing Policy (Paperback)
Jean Conway; Edited by Pete Alcock, Professor Peter Alcock (S Ed)
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R1,366
Discovery Miles 13 660
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In this book, the author provides an analysis which spans the whole
field from bricks and mortar to the impact of housing policy on
health, care, crime, education and the economy as a whole.
Practical insight into housing from a number of perspectives can be
gained: economic, financial and political; social policy and
welfare; construction and planning; environment and public health;
and residents and communities.
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Housing Policy (Hardcover)
Jean Conway; Edited by Pete Alcock, Professor Peter Alcock (S Ed)
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R4,134
Discovery Miles 41 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In this book, the author provides an analysis which spans the whole
field from bricks and mortar to the impact of housing policy on
health, care, crime, education and the economy as a whole.
Practical insight into housing from a number of perspectives can be
gained: economic, financial and political; social policy and
welfare; construction and planning; environment and public health;
and residents and communities.
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. Continuing with the
unbeaten narrative style and accessible approach of the previous
editions, the authors explore the major topics of social policy in
a clear and digestible way. By breaking down the complexities
behind policy developments and their outcomes, the book
demonstrates the relationship between core areas of policy and the
society we live in. This new edition has been thoroughly revised
and updated to cover the impact of Brexit and contains reflections
on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for social policy.
Each chapter contains comprehension activities to aid
understanding, as well as helpful summary points and suggestions
for further reading.
During the last twenty years vast numbers of working age men have moved completely out of the labor market into "early retirement" or "long-term sickness" and to take on new household roles. These trends contrast greatly to rising labor market participation among women. Based on research in the U.K. presented in an international perspective, this book offers a detailed exploration of the varied circumstances "detached men" are living in and challenges assumptions about the true state of the labor market.
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