Social Welfare & Social Services

As local communities and public services reel under the impact of global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for the services ...

This unique textbook enables social work practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how Islamic principles inform and influence the lives of M...

This fully updated edition of an essential introductory text offers a concise guide to the key structures and concepts in social policy and is now ...

This original edited collection explores the value of public engagement in a wider social science context. Its main themes range from the dialogic ...

In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully update...

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a...

Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting poi...

There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing ...

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a...

Approved Mental Health Professionals are specialist professionals authorised to make ethically complex and difficult decisions on the behalf of peo...