Provides social workers, advice centres and those engaged in caring for others, together with users, with an up-to-date text providing information and advice on legal rights. Covers a wide range of settings, including housing, the workplace, disability, mental health, dealing with the council and other public bodies, problems with the police, living with old age, and consumer goods and services.
Provides social workers, advice centres and those engaged in caring for others, together with users, with an up-to-date text providing information and advice on legal rights. Covers a wide range of settings, including housing, the workplace, disability, mental health, dealing with the council and other public bodies, problems with the police, living with old age, and consumer goods and services.
Subject terms:
informal care, law, local government, mental health problems, older people, physical disabilities, police, rights, advice services, employment;
Handbook drawing on guidance produced by the Department of Health.
Handbook drawing on guidance produced by the Department of Health.
Subject terms:
inspection, learning disabilities, local government, mental health problems, older people, physical disabilities, residential care, alcohol misuse, drug misuse;
Considers how services need to be structured and planned to meet the needs of children and families in the new millennium. Includes chapters on: effective central government structures for children; involving children in health care planning and delivery; an agenda for education services and a flexible curriculum; the impact of local government on policies and practice in services for children; preventing antisocial behaviour in young people; the voluntary sector and children's mental health; and children's services plans.
Considers how services need to be structured and planned to meet the needs of children and families in the new millennium. Includes chapters on: effective central government structures for children; involving children in health care planning and delivery; an agenda for education services and a flexible curriculum; the impact of local government on policies and practice in services for children; preventing antisocial behaviour in young people; the voluntary sector and children's mental health; and children's services plans.
Subject terms:
local government, mental health problems, parents, physical disabilities, planning, policy formulation, prevention, social care provision, user views, voluntary organisations, young people, central government, children, childrens rights, education, health care;
GRAYSON Lesley, HOBSON Margaret, SMITH Barbara, comps
Publisher:
University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
Publication year:
1992
Pagination:
171p.
Place of publication:
Birmingham
This issue addresses poverty from the perspective of low incomes, covering both low pay and support through the social security system. The publication is divided into 7 main sections which cover perceptions of poverty; people in poverty; poor work and poor pay; living on a low income; social security benefits; anti-poverty strategies; and finally discusses the developing agenda for poverty in the 1990's.
This issue addresses poverty from the perspective of low incomes, covering both low pay and support through the social security system. The publication is divided into 7 main sections which cover perceptions of poverty; people in poverty; poor work and poor pay; living on a low income; social security benefits; anti-poverty strategies; and finally discusses the developing agenda for poverty in the 1990's.
Subject terms:
local government, mental health problems, low income, older people, physical disabilities, poverty, social fund, single parent families, unemployment, women, benefits, children, debt, employment, health;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
Publisher:
Stationery Office
Publication year:
1997
Pagination:
39p.
Place of publication:
London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Subject terms:
home care, learning disabilities, joint planning, local authorities, local government, local government policy, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, older people, physical disabilities, policy, policy formulation, private sector, purchaser-provider split, residential care, social services, social work, social work education, social care provision, tendering, voluntary organisations, voluntary sector, adults, central government, community care, children, health care, government policy;
immigrants, homeless people, homelessness, housing, inner cities, learning disabilities, legal aid, local authorities, local government, local government finance, mental health problems, NHS, mothers, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, probation, poverty, pre-school children, punishment, social services, social work, social care provision, urban areas, welfare state, young people, after care, alcohol misuse, benefits, central government, children, community health care, drug misuse, education, employment, family planning, financing, Gypsies, health care;