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This book looks at the lives of six individuals. Based on documentary research and extensive interviews, the book relates personal histories to wider policy and practice developments and makes important connections between poverty, inequality and child care policy.

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This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. It examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of services and addresses what it means to be a critical, reflective practitioner.

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A topical textbook for students of probation studies and criminal justice which is the first to cover key areas in multi-agency work for criminal justice practice.

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This book provides an accessible overview of human needs,exploring how they may be translated into rights. It also looks at how social policy can be informed by a politics of human need.

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Although state provision may have dominated in Britain since 1945, there is a growing movement towards welfare pluralism - a mixed economy of welfare - involving private, voluntary and informal sectors. This book, written by social policy and welfare experts, sheds light on this neglected area of social policy.

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This important book provides the first substantial analysis of white working class perspectives on multiculturalism and change in the UK, improving our understanding of this under-researched group and suggesting a new and progressive agenda for white working class communities.