Social Welfare & Social Services

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...

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...

Approval follows would-be parents David and Cici through a series of forays into the past as they go through the motions of applying to adopt a chi...

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...

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...

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

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

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

Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have s...

Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence...

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...

Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for ...

Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it diffic...

· What is trauma?· How does it affect children?· How can adults help?Providing straightforward answers to these complex que...

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