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Voices of People Experiencing Poverty in Scotland

Author : Mhoraig Green
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781859355664
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Voices of People Experiencing Poverty in Scotland written by Mhoraig Green and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report gives a picture of life for people experiencing poverty in Scotland.Whilst there are plenty of statistics on poverty they cannot give us a full picture of what day-to-day life is like for people experiencing poverty and how these experiences change over time. Through focus group work, adults and children in Scotland with experience of poverty identify the issues that affect them including "The impact of low income, whether from benefits or low-paid work"Lack of access to basic financial services, such as affordable credit "Access to services, including further education, healthcare and advice servicesThe focus group participants also discuss how the areas they live in can be improved and how they'd like to be consulted about those improvements.

Poverty in Scotland

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215037817
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Book Synopsis Poverty in Scotland by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee

Download or read book Poverty in Scotland written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 168-i to x, session 2006-07

Social work and poverty

Author : Lester Parrott
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447307941
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Social work and poverty written by Lester Parrott and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Work and Poverty provides a timely review of the key issues that social workers and service users face when working together to combat poverty. Lester Parrot first situates social work and poverty within a historical context, analyzing various poverty concepts and theories and how then can lead to practices that work against the oppression of service users. Including reference to international practice throughout, he then critically evaluates the United Kingdom's 2012 Welfare Reform Act, highlighting the negative impact that it will have on service users and social workers alike. Ranging from topics such as access to food, obesity, drug use, and the effects of globalization, he provides a fresh understanding of poverty and how we can better overcome it.

Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth

Author : Ridge, Tess
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861349157
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth written by Ridge, Tess and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening, this major textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it. Raising fundamental questions about the organisation of society, social structures and relationships and social justice, the book is split into four main sections exploring key concepts and issues; 'people and place' (poverty and wealth across different groups and situations); the role of the state; and prospects for the future. This is the only textbook to focus on the links between wealth and poverty and contains an edited collection of chapters specially written by a distinguished panel of contributors including Pete Alcock, Daniel Dorling, Mary Shaw, Gill Scott and Jay Ginn. It is designed with the needs of students in mind and includes useful chapter summaries, illustrative boxes and diagrams, and pointers to relevant websites and other sources of further information. This is an essential textbook for level 1/2 undergraduate students studying social policy either as a main subject or as part of their course. It is a core text for level 3/4 specialist modules in this field.

Tackling Poverty: Community-led projects tackling working-age poverty and social exclusion

Author :
Publisher : Community Links
ISBN 13 : 0956712614
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Tackling Poverty: Community-led projects tackling working-age poverty and social exclusion written by and published by Community Links. This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The best start in life?

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215514080
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The best start in life? by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee

Download or read book The best start in life? written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government has set itself the challenging target of halving the number of children living in poverty by 2010-11 and eradicating child poverty by 2020. With 2010 fast approaching, Ministers are still committed to the targets, and the Committee wanted to ascertain whether DWP has the right measures in place to meet its objectives. Significant progress has been made, but the target remains challenging: there are still 2.8 million children living in poverty and the most recent data shows a slight increase in this number. The Committee is convinced of the damaging effect of poverty on a child's self-esteem and expectations, and also its effects in contributing to social exclusion. Children growing up in poverty are also more likely to have poorer health and poorer educational outcomes. There are groups of children who have a much higher risk of growing up in poverty, for example if they or a parent are disabled, and there are higher poverty rates amongst Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black children. Getting parents into sustainable work should be the focus of the strategy to lift them and their children out of poverty, but there are concerns that the Jobseekers' Allowance regime is not sufficiently flexible to reflect the complexity of lone parents' lives. To eradicate child poverty by 2020, the Government needs a long-term strategy on benefit income for those who are unable to work. If benefits are uprated in line with inflation, the gap between the incomes of those in work and those on benefits will only get wider, as benefits will not keep pace with earnings. As poverty is measured as a percentage of median earnings, the implications for the 2020 target, in particular, are serious.

Child Poverty

Author : Treanor, Morag C.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334698
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Child Poverty written by Treanor, Morag C. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in policy and media discourses. Seeking to redress this problem, Treanor places children’s experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

Hearing Young Voices

Author : Karen McAuley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952914273
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Young Voices written by Karen McAuley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Child's World

Author : Jan Horwath
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857001833
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Child's World written by Jan Horwath and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated edition of the best-selling book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive and multidisciplinary guide to all aspects of assessment. The Child's World not only provides an explanation of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, but also offers a wealth of information on how to use it sensitively and effectively. The Child's World explores the implications of recent legislation, including the Children Act 2004, and national guidance for assessment practice. The contributors have drawn on the latest research, best practice and lessons learnt over the past decade of Framework implementation to equip practitioners, from different disciplines, to identify the developmental needs of children, assess parental capacity and evaluate the impact of family, economic and environmental factors on the carer's ability to meet the needs of the child. This book is essential reading for all practitioners, managers, trainers and educators in children's and adult services who use the Framework, and will also be a valued source of knowledge and guidance for those assessing children’s needs in legislative contexts outside of England.

Sociology and Social Work

Author : Jo Cunningham
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 1473907241
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Sociology and Social Work written by Jo Cunningham and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociological perspectives and their application to social work are an inherent part of the QAA benchmark statements in the social work degree. In addition, graduates must understand how sociological perspectives can be used to dissect societal and structural influences on human behaviour at individual, group and community levels. This fully-revised second edition includes a new chapter on social class and welfare and is mapped to the new Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work.

The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld

Author : John J. Rodger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527538869
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld written by John J. Rodger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key questions addressed in this book relate to how we should understand social welfare today. Is it a mechanism for promoting the virtues of altruism and other-regarding social values through the design of compassionate social policies which seek to enhance the quality of social relationships between citizens, or, is it a self-reproducing sub-system of law and politics which operates in accordance with its own internal logic, independently of the human agents who try to steer it towards benign social outcomes? This book questions whether the language of the enlightenment is the most appropriate to describe a socio-political project that is struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing economic and political conditions which now exist in a neo-liberal global world. The main sociological theorists guiding the analysis here are Niklas Luhmann, Jürgen Habermas and Norbert Elias, among others. The key themes analysed in the book are street-level bureaucracy and the interface between the welfare system and the citizen; sensemaking in welfare organisations and in society; the relationship between lay morality and the policy making process; the link between the third sector and philanthrocapitalism; and the emotional dimension of social policy, especially in relation to social work practice. It will appeal to social science students of social and political theory, as well as those seeking an understanding of the changing context of contemporary issues in social policy.

COVID-19 Collaborations

Author : Kayleigh Garthwaite
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144736449X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 Collaborations written by Kayleigh Garthwaite and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC BY NC ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone – but, for some, existing social inequalities were exacerbated, and this created a vital need for research. Researchers found themselves operating in a new and difficult context; they needed to act quickly and think collectively to embark on new research despite the constraints of the pandemic. This book presents the collaborative process of 14 research projects working together during COVID-19. It documents their findings and explains how researchers in the voluntary sector and academia responded methodologically, practically, and ethically to researching poverty and everyday life for families on low incomes during the pandemic. This book synthesises the challenges of researching during COVID-19 to improve future policy and practice. Also see 'A Year Like No Other: Family Life on a Low Income in COVID-19' to find out more about the lived experiences of low-income families during the pandemic.

Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland

Author : Gerry Mooney
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447308328
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland written by Gerry Mooney and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations since devolution began. It is argued throughout this important book that the analysis of Scottish social policy must therefore be located in wider debates around social injustice as well as about how the devolution process affects the making, implementation and impact of social policy. Social justice and social policy in Scotland focuses on a diverse range of topics and issues, including income inequalities, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, health and poverty, each reflecting the themes of social inequality and social justice. This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners as well as students of social policy and of society in Scotland and other devolved nations.

The Right to Food

Author : Katarina Tomaševski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448230X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Food written by Katarina Tomaševski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poverty Safari

Author : Darren McGarvey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1951627288
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Poverty Safari written by Darren McGarvey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Savage, wise, and witty . . . It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful, or necessary book.”--J. K. Rowling International Bestseller! For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Evicted, the Orwell Prize–winner that helps us all understand Brexit, Donald Trump, and the connection between poverty and the rise of tribalism in the United Kingdom, in the US, and around the world. Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastations firsthand. He grew up in a community where violence was a form of currency and has lived through addiction, abuse, and homelessness. He knows why people from deprived communities feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . . So he invites you to come along on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. His vivid, visceral, and cogently argued book—part memoir and part polemic—takes us inside the experience of extreme poverty and its stresses to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome. Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets forth what everybody—including himself—could do to change things. Razor-sharp, fearless, and brutally honest, Poverty Safari offers unforgettable insight into conditions in modern Britain, including what led to Brexit—and, beyond that, into issues of inequality, tribalism, cultural anxiety, identity politics, the poverty industry, and the resentment, anger, and feelings of exclusion and being left behind that have fueled right-wing populism and the rise of ethno-nationalism.

Lived Experiences and Social Transformations

Author : CL Wren Radford
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004513183
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Lived Experiences and Social Transformations written by CL Wren Radford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the productive and problematic nature of sharing lived experiences as a political and theological practice, drawing on a case study with anti-poverty activists in the UK to argue for a critical, creative, and collaborative approach to engaging with marginalised experiences in practical theology.

The Uncounted

Author : Alex Cobham
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9781509536016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Uncounted written by Alex Cobham and published by Polity. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging inequalities, but also to actively exacerbate them. He shows how, in statistics ranging from electoral registers to household surveys and census data, people from disadvantaged groups, such as indigenous populations, women, and disabled people, are consistently underrepresented. This further marginalizes them, reducing everything from their political power to their weight in public spending decisions. Meanwhile, corporations and the ultra-rich seek ever greater complexity and opacity in their financial affairs - and when their wealth goes untallied, it means they can avoid regulation and taxation. This brilliantly researched book shows how what we do and don’t count is not a neutral or ‘technical’ question: the numbers that rule our world are skewed by raw politics. Cobham forensically lays bare how these issues strike at the heart of our democracy, entrenching inequality and injustice – and outlines what we can do about it.