Welfare & benefit systems books

6233 books were found.

The Locker

The Locker

Author: Adrian Magson
ISBN: 9781800328709
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Hello, Nancy. You're at your usual locker at Fitness Plus. The time is 09:15. Your cell phone is dead, your home...  Read More >>

Exploration into Child Care

Exploration into Child Care

Author: Peter Boss
ISBN: 9781032441474
Format: Hardback
$183.00

Originally published in 1971, this title explores childcare in the period between the Children Act of 1948 and the...  Read More >>

Social Work in Child Care

Social Work in Child Care

Author: Elisabeth Pugh
ISBN: 9781032440699
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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Set to See Us Fail: Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Set to See Us Fail: Debating Inequalities in the Child...

Author: Viola Castellano
ISBN: 9781800738034
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book...  Read More >>

A Home from Home?: Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920

A Home from Home?: Children and Social Care in Victorian...

Author: Claudia Soares (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow/NUAcT Fellow, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow/NUAcT Fellow, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780192897473
Format: Hardback
$164.95

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home?...  Read More >>

Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, by the 2023 Orwell Prize-winning journalist and author

Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, by...

Author: Daniel Lavelle
ISBN: 9781472279125
Format: Paperback
$24.99

At once a powerful memoir, unflinching polemic and probing investigation into modern homelessness in the UK, by...  Read More >>

Dating While Autistic: Cut Through the Social Quagmire and Find Your Person

Dating While Autistic: Cut Through the Social Quagmire...

Author: Wendela Whitcomb Marsh
ISBN: 9781949177992
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Neurodivergent couples, where one or both partners have ASD, ADHD, or another brain difference, often struggle with...  Read More >>

Special Diets for Special Kids: Updated Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Recipes You'll Love

Special Diets for Special Kids: Updated Gluten-Free,...

Author: Lisa Lewis
ISBN: 9781949177985
Format: Paperback
$92.27

It is critical for children to experience the world using sensory systems in order to have the brain function at...  Read More >>

Welfare That Works for Women?: Mothers’ Experiences of the Conditionality within Universal Credit

Welfare That Works for Women?: Mothers’ Experiences...

Author: Kate Andersen (University of York)
ISBN: 9781447366386
Format: Hardback
$99.99

This book analyses fresh empirical evidence which demonstrates the gendered impacts of the new conditionality regime...  Read More >>

Unwanted: The Care System Failed Lara. Will She Fail Her Own Child?

Unwanted: The Care System Failed Lara. Will She Fail...

Author: Cathy Glass
ISBN: 9780008584429
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was...  Read More >>

Income Inequality in America: A Reference Handbook

Income Inequality in America: A Reference Handbook

Author: Stacey M. Jones (Seattle University, USA) ,  Robert S. Rycroft (University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA)
ISBN: 9781440867439
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United...  Read More >>

Basic Income: A History

Basic Income: A History

Author: Malcolm Torry
ISBN: 9781035313440
Format: Paperback
$74.91

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Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children

Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s...

Author: Mariela Neagu (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781447357995
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book explores what happened to the 'Romanian orphans' of the 1990s, including those who stayed in institutions...  Read More >>

The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964 1981

The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964 1981...

Author: Mark Mclay
ISBN: 9781474475532
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Mark Maclay examines the part the Republican Party played in shaping and eventually curtailing President Johnson's...  Read More >>

Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well

Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well

Author: Kathy Regan
ISBN: 9780923521943
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Presents the story of one child psychiatric unit and a questioning of the humanity of current practice in child...  Read More >>

Kinder und Jugendliche in pandemischer Gesellschaft

Kinder und Jugendliche in pandemischer Gesellschaft...

Author: Nikolaus Dimmel ,  Gottfried Schweiger
ISBN: 9783658393038
Format: Paperback
$224.37

Der Band widmet sich der Situation sozial benachteiligter Kinder und Jugendlicher in der Pandemie in Österreich....  Read More >>

Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities: Improving Legal, Policy and Practical Responses

Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities:...

Author: Aisha K. Gill ,  Hannah Begum
ISBN: 9783031063367
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative...  Read More >>

Uniquely Normal Manual: Using The Bernstein Cognitive Methods for Autism

Uniquely Normal Manual: Using The Bernstein Cognitive...

Author: Robert J. Bernstein
ISBN: 9781949177978
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A guide for using the Bernstein Cognitive Method for Autism (BCMA, or Bernstein Method for short). The book teaches...  Read More >>

Street life as labour: The work, labour and economic life of Accra's street children

Street life as labour: The work, labour and economic...

Author: Phil Mizen ,  Yaw Ofosu-Kusi
ISBN: 9781529205329
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light...  Read More >>

Street life as labour: The work, labour and economic life of Accra's street children

Street life as labour: The work, labour and economic...

Author: Phil Mizen ,  Yaw Ofosu-Kusi
ISBN: 9781529205305
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light...  Read More >>

Social Security Law in Greece

Social Security Law in Greece

Author: Konstantinos Kremalis ,  Patrina Paparrigopoulou
ISBN: 9789403516967
Format: Paperback
$168.19

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book describes the social security...  Read More >>

Making a Life on Mean Welfare: Voices from Multicultural Sydney

Making a Life on Mean Welfare: Voices from Multicultural...

Author: Emma Mitchell (Western Sydney University)
ISBN: 9781447353690
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the author’s own experience, this book explores how diverse welfare users navigate...  Read More >>

The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market

The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour...

Author: Tom Boland (University College Cork) ,  Ray Griffin (South East Technological University (SETU))
ISBN: 9781529211337
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Inspired by ideas from economic theology, this provocative book uncovers deep-rooted religious concepts and shows...  Read More >>

One More Life Chance: A journey from trauma to transformation

One More Life Chance: A journey from trauma to transformation...

Author: Mark Escott
ISBN: 9781781337219
Format: Paperback
$24.99

One More Life Chance provides practitioners with the information they need to understand the difficulties faced...  Read More >>

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