Policy and practice

This is a one-stop guide to systematic evaluation. With real-world case studies and practical tools, it offers straightforward advice on overcoming common challenges and delivering effective, fit-for-purpose evaluations across public, academic and voluntary sectors.

This book challenges current thinking about youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. It highlights how the street gang label is unfairly linked to Black (and urban) youth street-based lifestyles/cultures and friendship groups.

This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain’s ageing society, putting forward workable solutions for integrating paid-for and unpaid care into a single framework based on the strengths of the community.

This unique book asks how Britain can organise itself to build a fairer and sustainable society. It explores the value to society of social town planning and offers a doorway for how planning both morally and practically can help to meet key challenges of the 21st century.

Combining theory and international practice,this book examines how local government can develop active citizens and make a difference to the well-being of those in disadvantaged areas.

Reflective practice is at the heart of probation training and the continual professional development of practitioners. Using case studies, this book will equip the reader to develop their own reflective practice in order to make defensible, ethical decisions and benefit their career progression in this challenging profession.

Learning from professional errors in social work is vital for successful reflective practice. With plenty of practice examples and questions for reflection, this is essential reading for social work students, practitioners and managers.

In this timely book, the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows and improving citizen information.

This book illuminates current debates about the nature and status of research in education and calls for a wider understanding of education by policy makers and research funders.

Rethinking Britain presents a range of ideas from some of the country’s most influential thinkers, offering solutions which, if implemented, would lead to a fairer society. This book is an essential aid for citizens who are interested in critiquing inequalities while looking to build a better future.

New Labour had a momentous impact on British family policy. In this timely book, Clem Henricson asks whether its aspirations were met, or were indeed realisable, and formulates radical proposals for the future.

As the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to scrutinise its key values and practices becomes urgent. Although widely acclaimed as a 'good thing', there is little agreement as to how advocacy should be implemented, funded or evaluated. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the benefits of advocacy.