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Monitoring Poverty And Social Exclusion In Scotland 2006
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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
Book Synopsis Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK by : Glen Bramley
Download or read book Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK written by Glen Bramley and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places? Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as poverty - access to local services or employment, social relations or civic participation, health and well-being. The book also explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis of exclusion. Written by leading academics, this is an authoritative account of welfare outcomes achieved across the UK. A companion volume Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 focuses on specific groups such as children or older people, and different geographical areas.
Book Synopsis OECD Rural Policy Reviews: Scotland, UK 2008 by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Rural Policy Reviews: Scotland, UK 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of rural policy in Scotland, that includes a profile of rural Scotland, and assessment of current policy, and a series of policy recommendations.
Book Synopsis Towards a more equal society? by : Hills, John
Download or read book Towards a more equal society? written by Hills, John and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an unprecedented third term in office, this book asks whether Britain has indeed moved in that direction. The highly successful earlier volume A more equal society? was described by Polly Toynbee as the LSE's mighty judgement on inequality. Now this second volume by the same team of authors provides an independent assessment of the success or otherwise of New Labour's policies over a longer period. It provides: · consideration by a range of expert authors of a broad set of indicators and policy areas affecting poverty, inequality and social exclusion; · analysis of developments up to the third term on areas including income inequality, education, employment, health inequalities, neighbourhoods, minority ethnic groups, children and older people; · an assessment of outcomes a decade on, asking whether policies stood up to the challenges, and whether successful strategies have been sustained or have run out of steam; chapters on migration, social attitudes, the devolved administrations, the new Equality and Human Rights Commission, and future pressures. The book is essential reading for academic and student audiences with an interest in contemporary social policy, as well as for all those seeking an objective account of Labour's achievements in power.
Book Synopsis Children, families and social exclusion by : Morris, Kate
Download or read book Children, families and social exclusion written by Morris, Kate and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people. This book seeks to consider new approaches to understanding the complexities of prevention, and how these new understandings can inform policy and practice. The authors use evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund to illustrate and explore the experiences of children and families who are most marginalised. They consider the historical context of approaches to child welfare, and present a new framework for understanding and developing preventative polices and practice within the context of social exclusion. Preventative initiatives such as the Children's Fund have supported large-scale complex evaluations that have generated rich and important data about strategies for addressing social exclusion and what they can achieve. The findings of this book have direct relevance for all those engaged in developing preventative policy and practice and will therefore be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and students of child welfare and social policy more broadly, in providing a timely discussion of key debates in designing, delivering and commissioning preventative services.
Book Synopsis NeoLiberal Scotland by : Neil Davidson
Download or read book NeoLiberal Scotland written by Neil Davidson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal Scotland argues that far from passing Scotland by, as is so often claimed, neoliberalism has in fact become institutionalised there. As the mainstream political parties converge on market-friendly policies and business interests are equated with the public good, the Scottish population has become more and more distanced from the democratic process, to the extent that an increasing number now fail to vote in elections. This book details for the first time these negative effects of neoliberal policies on Scottish society and takes to task those academics and others who either defend the neoliberal order or refuse to recognise that it exists. Neoliberal Scotland represents both an intervention in contemporary debates about the condition of Scotland and a case study, of more general interest, of how neoliberalism has affected one of the “stateless nations” of the advanced West. Chapter One takes an overview of the origin and rise of neoliberalism in the developed world, arguing that it repudiates rather than continues the thought of Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. Part One addresses the fundamental issue of social class in Scotland over three chapters. Chapter Two attempts to locate the ruling class both internally and externally. Chapter Three explores the changing nature of working class membership and its collective experience. Chapter Four follows the working class into the workplace where heightened tensions in the state sector have provoked an increasingly militant response from trade unionists. Part Two engages with the broader impact of neoliberalism on Scottish society through a diverse series of studies. Chapter Five assesses claims by successive Scottish governments that they have been pursuing environmental justice. Chapter Six examines how Glasgow has been reconfigured as a classic example of the “neoliberal city”. Chapter Seven looks at another aspect of Glasgow, in this case as the main destination of Eastern European migrants who have arrived in Scotland through the international impact of neoliberal globalisation. Chapter Eight investigates the economic intrusion of private capital into the custodial network and the ideological emphasis on punishment as the main objective in sentencing. Chapter Nine is concerned with the Scottish manifestations of “the happiness industry”, showing how market-fundamentalist notions of individual responsibility now structure even the most seemingly innocuous attempts to resolve supposed attitudinal problems. Finally, Chapter Ten demonstrates that the limited extent to which devolved Scottish governments, particularly the present SNP administration, have been able to go beyond the boundaries of neoliberal orthodoxy has been a function of the peculiarities of party competition in Holyrood, rather than representing a fundamental disavowal of the existing order.
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children by : Karen Broadhurst
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children written by Karen Broadhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice. Provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and practice Covers several disciplinary boundaries Goes beyond mere description to enable engagement in critical analysis of various policy areas as they relate to children and families
Book Synopsis Radical Social Work in Practice by : Ferguson, Iain
Download or read book Radical Social Work in Practice written by Ferguson, Iain and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Devolution on Social Policy by : Derek Birrell
Download or read book The Impact of Devolution on Social Policy written by Derek Birrell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this book provides a study of developments in the major areas of social policy and a full comparison between the four UK nations.
Book Synopsis Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland by : Gerry Mooney
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 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical engagement with the state of social policy a decade after Scotland's devolution in the UK, this book focuses on the successive Scottish administration's key vision of greater social justice as it pertains to the analysis of its social policy. Arguing that such analysis must be located in wider debates about social justice, it shows how the devolution process has affected the making, implementation, and impact of Scotland's social programs. Looking at a range of topics, including income inequality, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, and health, the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive look at the ways administrative vision has been translated--or not--into effective policy.
Book Synopsis Social work and poverty by : Lester Parrott
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.
Book Synopsis Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap by : Pamela Lenton
Download or read book Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap written by Pamela Lenton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses one of the main causes of poverty, financial exclusion – the inability to access finance from the high-street banks. People on low or irregular incomes typically have to resort to loan sharks, ‘doorstep lenders’ and other informal credit sources, a predicament which makes escape from the poverty trap doubly difficult. This book will be vital reading for those concerned with social policy, microfinance and anti-poverty policies in industrialised countries and around the world.
Book Synopsis Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth by : Ridge, Tess
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.
Book Synopsis Criminal Justice in Scotland by : Hazel Croall
Download or read book Criminal Justice in Scotland written by Hazel Croall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Criminal Justice in Scotland makes a valuable and timely contribution to the growing field of comparative criminology.' Pat Carlen, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain by : Pantazis, Christina
Download or read book Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain written by Pantazis, Christina and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistical tables and graphs.
Download or read book The Child's World written by Jan Horwath and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: The child's world: assessing children in need. 2001.
Book Synopsis An Inclusive Environment by : Maritz Vandenberg
Download or read book An Inclusive Environment written by Maritz Vandenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People can be excluded from freedom and the good things in life by age, disability, poverty, unfair discrimination, crime or the fear of crime, and arrogant and unresponsive governments. This practical reference deals with all of these factors, and shows the links between them. In addition to several hundred shorter notes it includes over a thousand major entries, each of which comprises: a summary of relevant facts, incisive commentary to help readers cut through the fog of jargon and propaganda that confuses many of these issues and websites where the latest information may be found. It concludes with a detailed bibliography of around 500 useful references. The work will be found useful by professionals and managers in all walks of life; by central and local government officials and representatives, and by students in the social sciences. It devotes particular attention to the all-important Disability Discrimination Act, and numerous detailed entries, accompanied in many cases by elegant diagrams, suggest to architects and other designers, facilities managers, and personnel managers how the requirements of the Act may be met.
