Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Within two decades-if not sooner-at least one in three prisoners in the US will be a senior citizen. Our prisons, however, were designed for a mu...

Social Security (comprising Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI)) is the largest single program in the federal gove...

According to the US Census Bureau, about 40 million Americans will be age 65 or older in 2010. By the year 2040, the population of older adults in ...

Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refer to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports that are needed by individuals ove...

Five federal agencies within four departments fund home and community-based services and supports that older adults often require to continue livin...

For millions of Americans, the heartbreak of watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer''''s disease is a pain they know all too well. Alzheimer'...

Clear, step-by-step guidance on how to attain the Health and Social Care Level 2 Dementia Care Award and Certificate with an assessment-focussed ap...

Clear, step-by-step guidance on how to attain the Health and Social Care Level 3 Dementia Care Award and Certificate with an assessment-focussed ap...

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. ...

For Cris and Miguel, creating a family will take a little luck and lots of determination. A Chance is the engrossing, heartwarming story of their s...

Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a...

Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a 5-year-old boy curled up asleep in a dog be...

In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to...

In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the heartbreaking true story of 13-year-old Za...

The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the pers...

An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorshi...

Octavia is adopted, but has material advantages. However, her childhood innocence is short-lived when she discovers the truth about her family from...

Barby Keel is used to all manner of creatures arriving at the door of the Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary where she lives and works, deep within the Su...

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks P...

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevies social worker tells Cathy, an e...

From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. ...

Despite a proliferation of legislative action in response to differential outcomes, the relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantag...

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for i...

'Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl.'In her brand-new series 'Thrown Away Childr...

Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for pr...