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Paperback. From a campaigning concept in the 1970s, direct payments - the substitution of cash for services - have become a key part of UK government social care provision. This book charts the change, critically evaluating progress, take-up, inclusion and access to direct payments by different user groups. Editor(s): Leece, Janet; Bornat, Joanna. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346537
- ISBN
- 9781861346537
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€ 36.99€ 35.03
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Hardcover. While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received little attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies. Editor(s): Henman, Paul; Fenger, Menno. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JKS; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346520
- ISBN
- 9781861346520
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€ 91.42
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Paperback. Talks about the politicising of parenthood in the Scandinavian welfare states. This book focuses on the relationship between parents and the state, and the renegotiations between the public and the private. It explores policy discourses, scrutinises outcomes, and presents the similarities and differences between Nordic countries. Editor(s): Ellingsaeter, Anne Lise; Leira, Arnlaug. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSJ; JKSB1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346452
- ISBN
- 9781861346452
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€ 40.99€ 38.54
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Paperback. The enduring and multi-faceted significance of families in society, and their value as a focus for the exploration of social change have ensured that families remain a prominent focus of academic enquiry. This book proposes a new conceptual framework that both challenges and attempts to reconcile traditional and contemporary approaches. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346438
- ISBN
- 9781861346438
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€ 40.99€ 38.45
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Paperback. Despite increased political and public interest in asylum issues in the UK, little has been written on the topic. This book, written by leading experts in the field, is the first to examine the role of refugee community organisations (RCOs) at a critical point of policy change. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346339
- ISBN
- 9781861346339
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€ 40.99€ 38.45
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Paperback. Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DB; JFFG; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346261
- ISBN
- 9781861346261
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€ 43.99€ 40.81
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hardcover. This book offers a new approach to scrutinising the co-existence of both care and abuse in relationships. Discourse analysis is introduced as a method of investigating relationships, policy and literature in informal care and analytic tools are considered alongside case-studies to illustrate how both parties construct their relationship. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346216
- ISBN
- 9781861346216
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€ 97.55
€ 97.55
paperback. Nordic countries are generally regarded as global welfare role models. Consequently, the influence of Nordic welfare systems in academic and policy debates has been immense. By focusing on the vital issue of violence by men to female partners and/or their children, this book seeks to reconsider this over-simplistic image. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFFE3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346025
- ISBN
- 9781861346025
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€ 40.99€ 38.70
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€ 38.70
paperback. This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people have adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market and a welfare system geared towards reintegrating them into formal employment. Through close ethnographic study it highlights collective strategies and responses to labour and welfare changes. Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFF; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861346001
- ISBN
- 9781861346001
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€ 38.99€ 37.27
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€ 37.27
Hardback. This book is the first specifically to explore methodological issues relating to the involvement of refugees in both service evaluation and development and research. It builds on a two-year seminar series funded by the ESRC where the participants jointly drew up a set of good practice guidelines that are re-produced in the book for the first time. Editor(s): Temple, Bogusia; Moran, Rhetta. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345981
- ISBN
- 9781861345981
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€ 91.66
€ 91.66
Paperback. This is the first book specifically aimed at students that integrates the description and analysis of social policy in Scotland since devolution. It has been designed to support the delivery of social policy and related courses in Scotland itself but also to appeal to students on courses across the United Kingdom. Editor(s): Mooney, Gerry; Scott, Gill. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345943
- ISBN
- 9781861345943
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€ 40.99€ 38.45
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hardcover. Changing Scotland uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to improve our knowledge and understanding of the impact of devolution on the lives of people in Scotland. It is the first time that BHPS data has been used in this way. Editor(s): Ermisch, John F.; Wright, Robert E. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JKS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345936
- ISBN
- 9781861345936
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€ 97.30
€ 97.30
Paperback. There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. Editor(s): Andersen, Jorgen Goul; Guillemard, Anne-Marie; Jensen, Per H.; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345912
- ISBN
- 9781861345912
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€ 41.99€ 39.62
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Paperback. This book charts key British developments in child welfare, child poverty research and state support for children from 1800 to the present day. With direct quotations from key sources, it argues that even in the face of clear evidence of hardship the response of policy makers to child poverty has been ambivalent. Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion Series. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345837
- ISBN
- 9781861345837
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€ 32.99€ 31.65
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Paperback. Drawing on interviews with older people, local authority care managers and direct payments support service workers, this topical report looks at how older people use direct payments and how they make them work. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: JKSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345806
- ISBN
- 9781861345806
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€ 26.99€ 26.68
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Paperback. Britain's New Labour government claims to support the cause of human rights. At the same time, it claims that we can have no rights without responsibility and that dependency on the state is irresponsible. The ethics of welfare offers a critique of this paradox and discusses the ethical conundrum it implies for the future of social welfare. Editor(s): Dean, Hartley. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HPQ; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345622
- ISBN
- 9781861345622
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€ 36.99€ 35.04
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Paperback. Putting the spotlight on the Chinese and South-East Asian welfare systems, this title provides an assessment of their character and development. It examines the underlying assumptions of these systems and how the processes of globalization are impacting on them. There is also a comparative analysis of Eastern and Western welfare states. Editor(s): Walker, Alan; Wong, Chack-kie. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HRKN1; JFFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345523
- ISBN
- 9781861345523
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€ 40.99€ 38.54
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Paperback. Improving partnership working between health and social care agencies has recently gained increased impetus as a result of New Labour's commitment to joined-up government. This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to policy and practice at the interface between health and social care. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JKSG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345257
- ISBN
- 9781861345257
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.84
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Paperback. This book examines the role of participants in research and how research ethics can be put into practice. Health, social, and journalistic research are currently subject to very different forms of regulation and codes of practice. By including the experiences of researchers and their subjects the book explores the disciplinary divides. Editor(s): Smyth, Marie; Williamson, Emma. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBC; KJG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345141
- ISBN
- 9781861345141
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€ 40.99€ 38.45
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Paperback. The Bangladeshi population is the fastest growing ethnic group within the UK. Despite this, Bangladeshis in Britain are an under-researched group. This is especially true of the women in this community. Women in transition examines, in-depth and for the first time, Bangladeshi women's domestic and community lives. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345103
- ISBN
- 9781861345103
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.68
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€ 26.68