Social welfare & social services
Beyond Successful and Active Ageing
A Theory of Model Ageing
This controversial book argues that concepts such as ‘successful’ and ‘active’ ageing are potentially dangerous paradigms that reflect and exacerbate inequalities in older populations. Essential reading for anyone seeking to make sense of social constructions of ageing in contemporary societies.
What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?
This provocative short book is a valuable introduction to social security in Britain and the potential for its reform.
What Death Means Now
Thinking Critically about Dying and Grieving
Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions around this universal fact.
Advising in Austerity
Reflections on Challenging Times for Advice Agencies
Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK. It examines how advisors negotiate the private troubles of those who come to Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) and construct ways forward.
101 Reasons for a Citizen's Income
Arguments for Giving Everyone Some Money
For anyone new to the subject of Citizen’s Income, or who wants to introduce friends, colleagues or relatives to the idea, this valuable guide will be essential reading, offering a convincing case for a Citizen’s Income and a much needed resource for all interested in the future of welfare in the UK.
Supporting Struggling Students on Placement
A Practical Guide
Practical guidance that will further knowledge and engender confidence for any teachers, assessors and supervisors on courses with a practice learning component, based on the authors first-hand experience and international multi-disciplinary research and literature.
Poverty and Inequality
An examination of the consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner.
Personalisation
One of Britain's foremost social work academics, Peter Beresford, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.
Mental Health
Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own experience to develop a new model of practice in mental health social work.
Adult Social Care
An historical overview of adult social care that locates the roots of the current crisis in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades.
Ethics
Sarah Banks emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.
Children and Families
Leading researchers from across the globe look at the negative impact neoliberalism has had on children's services.