(Paperback)

Comparing developments across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this textbook enables students to discover, understand and identify the scope and use of social policy over the last decade by the devolved administrations.

(Paperback)

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.

(Hardback, Second Edition)

Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this dynamic and fully updated second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory. It includes a new chapter featuring debates around disability, sexuality and the environment.