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'Laud's is an important voice, telling the other story of immigration to the UK – the story of alchemy between peoples, transformation, love and the making and remaking of Great Britain.' Yasmin Alibhai-Brown In modern Britain, barely a day goes by without a politician, pundit, paper or pub-goer launching into a tirade about 'the problem with immigrants' and what should be done to tackle it. High unemployment, overcrowded schools, benefit scrounging, housing shortages, stretched healthcare services … pretty much every issue facing the country today seems to be pinned on immigration – but is

Cover -- Social Work with Children -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE The Context of Social Work with Children -- 1 Child Care Policy, Children's Rights and The Children Act -- 2 Age and Understanding: The Developmental Framework -- PART Two Working with Children in Practice -- 3 The Voice of the Child in Practice -- 4 Working with Children in Need and in Need of Protection -- 5 Children who are the Subject of Care and Adoption Proceedings in the Courts -- 6 Children Looked After by the Local Authority -- 7 Children and Youth Justice -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex field. One half of a unique duet of texts, this book explores the issues within policy, law, theory and research, which will define practice for the next generation of adult social workers.

The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration controls are discussed in this much-needed book. The contributors explore the tensions that exist between traditional anti-oppressive values and the role professionals increasingly play as 'gate keepers' to services. Drawing from the experience of practitioners working in child protection and family support, disability, the criminal justice system, asylum teams and immigration tribunals, Immigration and Asylum will prepare professionals working i

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community. Three different aspects of working with offenders are covered: developments in policy; assessment, supervision and intervention; and issues and needs. Contributions from experts in the field discuss issues such as community 'punishment', case manage

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the fourth edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: setting the scene -- CHAPTER 1 Social work and disability: old and new directions -- Old directions -- New directions -- Explaining disability -- The social model and its implications for social work -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 2 Impairment, disability and research -- Introduction -- Relevance of medical control -- Medical knowledge and the social work task -- Identifying impairment -- Origin of impairment -- Classifying impairment -- Prevention of disability -- Impairment and disability -- The need to investigate disability -- Functional definitions of disability/disability research -- National surveys -- Definitions of disability in the design of questionnaires -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 3 Relationships and families -- Families and households -- Relationships -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 4 Independent living and personal assistance -- Introduction -- Centres for Independent Living -- Personal assistants and direct payments -- Assessment -- Other social services provision -- Residential accommodation for disabled people: a discredited provision -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 5 Independent living: the wider social policy and legal context -- Introduction -- Employment -- Equality and human rights -- Housing -- Disabled children and education -- The rights of disabled people: Ways forward? -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 6 Independent living: vulnerability and safeguarding -- Introduction -- Lessons from the past and meaning for today -- Institutional abuse -- Hate crime -- Abuse of disabled children -- Risk -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 7 Conclusion: future directions -- Theoretical and professional developments -- Organisational issues and structural developments -- Some strategies for social work -- Further resources -- References -- Index.

Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, this title intends to support students on the social work degree. It seeks to confirm and strenghten social work values and principles so that the progress and successes achieved by 'Valuing People' can continue.

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex field. One half of a unique duet of texts, this book explores the issues within policy, law, theory and research, which will define practice for the next generation of child and family social workers.