Social and Public Policy - Policy and Practice
Ethics
Sarah Banks emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.
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Poverty and Inequality
An examination of the consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner.
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Personalisation
One of Britain's foremost social work academics, Peter Beresford, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.
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Adult Social Care
An historical overview of adult social care that locates the roots of the current crisis in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades.
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Children and Families
Leading researchers from across the globe look at the negative impact neoliberalism has had on children's services.
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Hearing the Voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
Inclusive Community Development
This book charts Gypsies Romany and Travellers community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations which support them. It describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intersectional discrimination across Europe.
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World Report 2015
Events of 2014
The 25th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2014 by Human Rights Watch staff with domestic rights activists, in particular on the roles played by key domestic and international figures.
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In Defence of Welfare 2
In Defence of Welfare 2 brings together nearly fifty short pieces from a diverse range of social policy academics and commentators, policy makers and journalists that focus on developments in ‘welfare’ over the last five years of Coalition Government.
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Ethnic Identity and Inequalities in Britain
The Dynamics of Diversity
This important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain, with contributions from experts based at or affiliated to the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity.
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Moving Up and Getting On
Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in the UK
Moving up and getting on is the first accessible, yet comprehensive, text to critique the effectiveness of recent integration and social cohesion policies. It argues that there needs to be greater emphasis on the social aspects of integration and opportunities for meaningful social contact between migrants and longer-settled residents.
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World Report 2016
Events of 2015
Human Rights Watch’s annual World Report 2016 highlights the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
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The Right to Buy?
Selling off public and social housing
In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie provides an authoritative account of the origins, development and impact of the policy across the UK and proposals for its extension in England (and decisions to end it in Scotland and Wales).
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