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The interface between social work and social policy
- Editor:
- RAMON Shulamit
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Focuses on the inter relationship between social work and social policy. Includes papers on: placing social work within social theory and political practice; community as a basis for social policy and social action; the role of the supra state in organisation shaping - the case of the European Union; social stratification and differentiation of incomes in Russia; redistributing wealth and power between the state and individual entrepreneurs in Armenia; introducing new professions - social work in Russia; the emergence and development of the non profit sector in Hungary; advocacy as a policy and practice issue; changing cultures of care in the two Germanies; approaches to deinstitutionalisation in Western and Eastern Europe; the rediscovery of child neglect and abuse; comprehending and responding to elder abuse; and social integration of children with disabilities in India.
Inform '92: meeting the information needs of disabled people in Europe; International Conference Centre, Birmingham 13 and 14 October 1992
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 159p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: acceptable language in information provision; the National Disability Information Project; telephone information helplines; MENCAP's profound intellectual and multiple disabilities section; physical and attitudinal barriers to effective information provision; employment information for people with disabilities; the accessibility of public information in different European countries; the EC's Helios programme; Kent County Council and links between disabled people in Europe; methods of disseminating information; the Deaf Women's Health Project; the Asian People with Disabilities Alliance; information and visual impairment; advocacy and the law; the use and value of information technology; and travelling and tourism for all.