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Self-Neglect and Hoarding
Hoarding and self-neglect are estimated to be a factor in 20% of social workers' cases when working with older people or adults with mental health issues. This guide introduces the patterns of self-neglect and how challenging they can be to identify with practical strategies for assessment, intervention and further support.
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Beyond the School Gates
This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask:
What do extended or full service schools hope to achieve, and why should services based on schools be any more effective than services operating from other community bases?
What pattern of services and activities is most effective?
What does extended schooling mean for children and families who are not highly disadvantaged, or for schools outside the most disadvantaged areas?
How can schools lead extended services at the same time as doing their 'day job' of teaching children?
Why should schools be concerned with family and community issues?
Beyond the advocacy of 'extended provision', what real evidence is there that schools of this kind make a difference, and how can school leaders evaluate the impact of their work?
This book will be of interest to anyone involved in extended and full service school provision, as a practitioner, policy-maker, or researcher.
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Assessing children's needs and circumstances : the impact of the assessment framework
Drawing on interviews with social workers and their managers, and families and young people themselves, the authors of this important book show how the principles embodied in the Assessment Framework have been applied to social work practice. This book should be read by all professionals working to promote the welfare and well-being of children.
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Equal opportunities policy and practice in Britain: evaluating the 'empty shell' hypothesis
This article evaluates the nature and incidence of equal opportunities (EO) policies in the UK using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS 98). The article identifies the types of workplaces that are more likely to adopt formal gender; ethnicity, disability and age policies. It then assesses whether the policies are 'substantive' or merely 'empty shells': first, by evaluating the extent to which workplaces that have adopted EO policies have also adopted supporting EO practices; and second, by evaluating the proportion of employees who have access to EO practices in workplaces where they have been adopted. On balance, the 'empty shell' argument is more convincing. Smaller workplaces, private sector workplaces and workplaces without an HR or personnel specialist are identified as being more likely to have an 'empty shell' policy. While unionized workplaces are more likely to have a formal policy, those policies are no less likely to constitute 'empty shells'. Finally, the policy, economic and legal implications of the findings are discussed.
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Reinventing 'inclusion'
New Labour has placed inclusion at the centre of its educational agenda. Its policies have been characterised by an attempt to include disabled children, together with others identified as having 'special educational needs', within the ordinary school system and the shifting of responsibility for meeting their needs to teachers in the ordinary classroom. Policy on inclusion has also been formulated under the wider policy goal of improving educational quality as measured by narrowly conceived performance criteria. Yet, New Labour's policies have failed to engage with the issue, identified in particular by the disability movement, of the cultural politics of special education and exclusion. In consequence, New Labour's policy on inclusive education is beset with contradictions and there is little evidence of real change in the system, even in terms of the government's own ambitions. What is distinctive about New Labour policy on inclusive education is how the language of inclusion has been mobilised as a central normalising discourse of governance. State intervention is advanced in pursuit of technical 'solutions' to social exclusion as a moral rather than as a political problem. (DIPF/Orig.).
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Standards and Special Education Needs
Amidst all of the bureaucracy and policy concerning special educational needs (SEN), it is easy to lose sight of the role of standards in the education of pupils with SEN. This book places the role of standards at the centre of the stage, showing: - what is meant by standards- how they are measured- how they can be improved- what pitfalls need to be avoidedTopics include: legisaltion; identification of SEN; target settting; benchmarking; \"value added\"; inclusive education; and resources. The book focuses on UK education systmes but includes frequent and sustained comparison with USA. There are also references to Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Supporting a Design Driven Approach to Social Inclusion and Accessibility in Transport
This paper presents research into the area of public transport and accessibility, addressing the support of practitioners in achieving socially inclusive solutions to the mobility issues of diverse populations. For decades, social policy has been underpinned by a stereotyping of populations into simplified sub groups: old, young, disabled, etc. and thus solutions often fail to properly address the richness of human variability. These shortcomings are often ‘managed’ through the ability for people to adapt, however, this is not a sustainable way in which to build a socially inclusive transport infrastructure. A software design tool called HADRIAN is presented. This tool provides a means to evaluate designs for their physical inclusiveness through the use of a virtual user group. This virtual user group is the embodiment of over 100 people that can be used to assess an existing or proposed design and to gain an understanding of what may be done to improve its accommodation. A case study exploring the use of the tool is described together with work in exploring the correlation of the individuals within the HADRIAN system with data on the UK population as a whole and how the inclusion or exclusion of individuals with specific characteristics can be used to inform a more representative view of the inclusiveness of a design.
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Leisure and tourism policy and planning
This book is an updated edition of Leisure Policy and Planning (Longman, 1994), now covering tourism as well as leisure and addressing such issues as citizens' rights, the implications of globalization, 'Third Way' politics and 'Best Value' developments. Topics covered include: leisure and tourism needs, rights and citizenship; political ideologies and the role of the state; the market versus the state; public policy making; leisure and tourism plans and planning; forecasting leisure and tourism demand; economic evaluation methods, performance evaluation; and planning for different sector. The book includes an extensive bibliography and questions and exercises for each chapter.
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Good practice with vulnerable adults
Good Practice in Social Work 9
This is a practical and trans-disciplinary guide for professionals working with vulnerable adults, who include the frail elderly, those with mental health problems or physical disabilities, learning disabilities or serious physical illness.
The contributors address key problems and dilemmas in working to protect these groups from abuse, and to support those who have already experienced abuse or neglect. They consider the procedural implications of the latest Department of Health guidance on working with vulnerable adults, and make practical suggestions for working with both victims and abusers.
Highlighting the importance of interagency working, the contributors show how the related fields of child abuse, domestic violence and adult abuse can come together to promote increased understanding and good practice. With its emphasis on effective practice and contributions from social work, general medical practice, criminal justice and adult protection, this collection will be an indispensable resource for students, practitioners, service managers and policy makers in all sectors.
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