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A crisis in care: challenges to social work
- Editor:
- CLARKE John
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 186p.,illus.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the conflicting demands on, and pressures and criticisms of the social work profession. Among the issues covered are: challenges from above in the form of inquiries, reviews and new legislation; challenges from below by users, potential users and social workers themselves, about the ways in which power and control are exercised in social work; and the social and cultural diversity of needs which social work must meet, including issues of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability.
Child welfare policy and practice: issues and lessons emerging from current research
- Editors:
- IWANIEC Dorota, HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. Addresses topical issues as expressed by central government bodies and enquiries regarding services and policies relating to children in need of care and protection. Includes papers on: issues emerging from child care research post Children Act 1989; the legal and policy contexts for children's services in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the involvement of voluntary organisations in the first Scottish children's services plans; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland; the transition to adulthood of disabled young people in Northern Ireland; an evaluation of the Scottish pilot of the looking after children records system; educating looked after children; social work conceptions regarding black children in Scotland; the outcomes of a twenty year follow up of children who failed to thrive; communication between child and adult and the implications for use of the live link with child witnesses; and law, policy, practice and research in child and family social work.
Children in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice price
- Editors:
- FOLEY Pam, ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 299p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of papers providing a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and their families. Includes chapters on: the development of child health and welfare services in England; the changing experience of childhood; the demonisation of children; racism; child care policy; children's policy in the European Union; quality of life for children; children's rights; mothers, children and healthcare at home; listening to children; community development as a strategy for empowerment; children's hearings in Scotland; parental responsibility; the impact of domestic violence on children; primary education in Scotland; children, sexual abuse and the child protection system; foster families; external influences on workplace competence; an ecological perspective on child abuse; children's health at school; theories of child development; working with disabled children; involving children and families in decision making about health; men working in child care; perspectives on parenting; and developing partnership practice.