Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a persons life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of...

At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster carers Trisha and Mike Merry's doorstep. Two social work...

Caleb invites you on a journey to learn about attachment and trauma in this interactive story and workbook intended for children and the adults who...

The book''''s premise is that not only do children and youth in foster care comprise a population very much at risk for school failure but also tha...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an under...

Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having pa...

Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives ...

Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...

What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child we...

Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of eth...

A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised,...

Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...