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Background factors
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.5.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a ground-breaking project which is training staff to be aware of the cultural needs of Nottingham's ethnic minority communities to increase their access to disability services.
Understanding poverty
- Author:
- ALCOCK Pete
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 301p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
Provides a review of research on, and debates about, the problem of poverty in the 1990s. Covers the definition and measurement of poverty, its distribution and causes, and the development of anti-poverty strategy. Also looks at: the dynamics of deprivation; the 'underclass'; poverty in Europe and beyond; defining and measuring poverty; gender, racism, ageing and disability; social security policy; welfare rights; and the politics of poverty and the welfare state.
Youth in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice
- Editors:
- ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 270p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers a wide ranging and critical overview of the analyses and debates surrounding young people in the UK today. Addresses the following themes and issues: citizenship, participation and empowerment; social difference and social identity; images of youth; young people and the politics of service provision; and working with young people in different contexts.
Perspectives on the Memorandum: policy, practice and research in investigative interviewing
- Editors:
- WESTCOTT Helen, JONES Jocelyn
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 204p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A comprehensive evaluation of how the Memorandum of good practice on video recorded interviews with child witnesses is working. Includes papers on: an overview of the implementation of the Memorandum; a social services perspective; a police view; the Memorandum and the guardian ad litem; children's perspectives on investigative interviews; disabled children and the Memorandum; black children and the memorandum; an international perspective; the investigation of organised abuse; preparing children for court; and dilemmas and opportunities in training around the Memorandum.