Co-ordinating Services for Children and Youth at Risk A World View

Co-ordinating Services for Children and Youth at Risk A World View
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 1998-07-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264163190

With 15-30% of our children and youth at risk of failing in school, increasing the co-ordination of education, health and social services is seen as part of the solution. This book shows how it is being done in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United States.

Integrating Social Services for Vulnerable Groups Bridging Sectors for Better Service Delivery

Integrating Social Services for Vulnerable Groups Bridging Sectors for Better Service Delivery
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9264233776

All OECD countries have vulnerable populations in need of multiple social service supports. This book looks at how services are integrated, vulnerable groups are defined and populations compare, and at the benefits of integrating services. It identifies good practice and promising common approaches.

Playing the State

Playing the State
Author: Sophie Watson
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1990
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780860919704

Essays focused on the implications of feminist intervention in systems of power. Chapter 4 entitled "Colonization and Decolonization: An Aboriginal Experience" by Barbara Flick pp. 61-66. Chapter 5 entitled "The Aboriginal Struggle in the Face of Terrorism" by Rose Wanganeen pp. 67-70.

Social Policy and Its Administration

Social Policy and Its Administration
Author: Joanna Monie
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1483188221

Social Policy and Its Administration contains an index of literature that defines the output created by social scientists for the welfare of human beings. This literary survey originates out of the need to present a comprehensive bibliographic work. The book covers areas that encompass the concept social policy. Topics such as the standards in social welfare services are also the focus of the book. The book traces the beginning of social science and the major proponents of the subject. The improvements made on the field are also enumerated and the countries that contributed to the progress of society are named in the book. Social revolutions such as the liberation of women and the abolishment of servitude as well as the transition from colonial status to political independence are discussed in the book. The text will be a useful tool for sociologists, historians, students, and researchers in the field of political science.

Institutions in Turbulent Environments

Institutions in Turbulent Environments
Author: T.P. Keating
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429853939

Published in 1999. Contemporary organizations are faced with increasingly rapid and dramatic change within their political, cultural and technological environments. Institutions in Turbulent Environments critically examines the way organizations respond to these changes,with a particular focus upon the institutional disability sector. The book examines available theory concerning organizational contingency, adaptation and population ecology. It utilizes a framework developed from this theory to examine the ways in which a major institution for the intellectually disabled responded to the turbulence within its environment. It uses this data to re-examine theory and to propose changes to the way organization/environment relationships are understood.

Community and Local Governance in Australia

Community and Local Governance in Australia
Author: Paul Smyth
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780868407753

This book examines the resurgence in Australia of locality-based social policy (concerned with the spatial dimensions of disadvantage), after the political failures of the market oriented approach to regional reform. The book proposes that these trends are leading to a new 'post-competition' policy regime in Australia that mirrors global policy trends.