Authors:Sarah Banks, Hugh Butcher, Paul Henderson, Jim R
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: practice, community, managing
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1861343566
ISBN-13: 9781861343567

Recent policy trends have moved the principle of community involvement to the centre of the UK government’s social inclusion, neighbourhood renewal and health development programmes. The challenges to managers involved in such work are addressed directly by this book. The book provides material on a key - and neglected - aspect of the government’s agenda: how organisations can work effectively in communities and in partnership with local community groups. It brings together contributions on the meaning, principles and application of managing community practice. Its distinctive feat

Author: Ruth Lupto
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: poverty, studies, place, policy, case, decline, street, dynamics, neighbourhood, renewal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1861345356
ISBN-13: 9781861345356

Poverty Street addresses one of the UK’s major social policy concerns: the gap between the poorest neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. It is an account of neighbourhood decline, a portrait of conditions in the most disadvantaged areas and an up-to-date analysis of the impact of the government’s neighbourhood renewal policies. The book: explores 12 of the most disadvantaged areas in England and Wales, from Newcastle in the north to Thanet in the south, providing the reader with a unique journey around the country’s poverty map; combines evidence from neighbourhood stat

Author: Paul Spicker
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: policy, social, applying, practice, analysis
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-06-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1861348258
ISBN-13: 9781861348258

People who work in planning, management and service delivery in the public sector need to know how policy is translated into practice, what is happening, and whether a policy works. "Policy analysis for Practice: introduces students and practitioners to the concepts, methods and techniques required to undertake the analysis and review of policy and its implementation. It combines material from public and social administration with examples and application to social policy and the social services. It focuses on developing understanding and skills for a growing area of practice. The book looks a

Author: B. Seebohm Rowntree
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: life, town, study, poverty
Number of Pages: 437
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1861342020
ISBN-13: 9781861342027

A century ago, Seebohm Rowntree, inspired by the work of Charles Booth and of his own father, Joseph Rowntree, embarked on a lengthy investigation of poverty in York. He and his team talked to poor and working class people in the city to find out what they spent their money on, and the extent to which they could afford what he defined as the minimum necessities (which did not, as far as he was concerned, include alcohol). He gathered an extraordinary range of statistics. His work was hugely influential in the thinking which led to the foundation of the welfare state - after reading it, Winston

Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: first, century, twenty, politics, policy, pensions
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1861348517
ISBN-13: 9781861348517

This book provides a much-needed introductory guide to the issues surrounding pension policy, not just in the UK but worldwide, and offers a critique of some of the dominant ideas and assumptions. Noting the intense debate that currently surrounds the subject, the book explores a wider view of the continuing issues about pension policy. It draws attention to an ideological ’fault-line’ running through pensions policy, between a dominant view of pensions as deferred earnings on the one hand and a view of them as providers of an adequate income to enable elderly people to participate

Author: Julian Tudor Hart
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: health, perspective, society, clinical, care, economy, political
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-04-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1861348088
ISBN-13: 9781861348081

This is a passionate analysis of the historical development, current state and potential future shape of the National Health Service by distinguished doctor and author, Julian Tudor Hart. Drawing on many years of clinical experience, Tudor Hart sets out to explore how the NHS might be reconstituted as a humane service for all (rather than a profitable one for the few), and a civilising influence on society as a whole. His starting point is an attack on the creeping commercialisation of the health service - the privatisation of a growing number of spheres, and the application of market economic

Authors:Heather Clark, Helen Gough, Ann Macfarlane,
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: older, people, payments, direct, dividends, pays
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2004-07-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1861345801
ISBN-13: 9781861345806

Direct payments have been available to older people receiving community care services in the UK since February 2000. However, scepticism remains about older people’s desire and ability to use direct payments and take-up so far has been low. Drawing on interviews with older people, local authority care managers and direct payments support service workers, this topical report looks at how older people use direct payments and how they make them work. It considers the role of direct payments support services and local authority care managers in making direct payments a real option for older