Social Services
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Social Services

Made Simple Books

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social Services

Made Simple Books

About this book

Social Services provides an introduction to the social services in Great Britain. This fourth edition aims to take account of a number of important changes in British social services since 1984 and to generally up-date the whole text. This volume was substantially completed towards the end of 1988, and updated until the summer/autumn 1989. This book is organized into 18 chapters. These chapters cover the history of British social services, relevant laws and legislation and the types of services for the aged, children, women and handicapped. It also describes social work as a profession and evaluate whether the welfare state was a success or failure. This book also provides information of the social measurement of poverty in Britain, funding for public spending and economic and social needs of population groups. This book will be of interest students preparing for examinations such as those approved by the Business and Technician Education Council (BTEC), the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), the Institute of Health Service Management, the Institute of Housing and similar professional and examining bodies.

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Information

Publisher
Made Simple
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780434900763
eBook ISBN
9781483183060
Edition
4
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Policy
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Social Services
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface to the second edition
  6. Preface to the fourth edition
  7. The Welfare State: Twentieth century milestones
  8. Chapter 1. Background to the modern social services
  9. Chapter 2. An outline of government
  10. Chapter 3. Social security
  11. Chapter 4. The health service
  12. Chapter 5. The aged
  13. Chapter 6. The handicapped
  14. Chapter 7. Mothers and young children
  15. Chapter 8. Children and young persons
  16. Chapter 9. Education
  17. Chapter 10. Housing
  18. Chapter 11. Environmental planning
  19. Chapter 12. Employment
  20. Chapter 13. The treatment of offenders
  21. Chapter 14. The social work profession
  22. Chapter 15. Finance and the social services
  23. Chapter 16. Complaints: how to make them
  24. Chapter 17. Information, advice and legal aid
  25. Chapter 18. The Welfare State: success or failure?
  26. Appendix 1. Poverty in Britain: a social measurement
  27. Appendix 2. How public spending is paid for
  28. Appendix 3. Population projections, Great Britain 1985-2025 (000s)
  29. Appendix 4. Selected social and economic needs of population groups: by age
  30. Appendix 5. Local authority personal social services: current expenditure, England 1987
  31. Appendix 6. What is QALY?
  32. Table of statutes
  33. Index