Social Welfare & Social Services

Kim Heanue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She previously worked for several years in substance misuse, ...

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expe...

David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems think...

This ongoing series serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training...

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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the sho...

America''s latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obses...

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint fro...

A moving account of working mothers daily livesand the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that ...

This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local a...

Democratic professionalism is an approach that enables public service professionals to work more democratically with clients, patients, students an...

Robert Pinker has written extensively on social policy matters since the early 1960s. His distinct approach to understanding concepts such as welfa...