Social Welfare & Social Services

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

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

One sunny day, Bomji the rabbit and his friend Spotty the cat meet something very scary while picking flowers in the woods. The friends manage to ...

Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often compl...

Its late on Friday night when Caseys mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isnt Riley. Its a woman from the E...

This series of six picture books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption by focusing on the experiences of a f...

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems. ...

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...

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...

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands t...

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

Im going to love my baby and give her lots of attention, Jade said. Ill show my mum shes wrong. Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone...

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...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she...

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