Venture Press
Social Policy for Social Welfare Practice in a Devolved Wales 2nd Edition
£16.95
Devolution in Wales has come of age. It has had profound impacts on policy directions, on how social welfare practitioners are trained and carry out their work and on wider issues of national identity that affect the social relations of welfare. This text critically engages with the impact of devolution on welfare practice in one of the devolved nations of the UK.
In this second edition leading academics in the field outline and review the policy framework and political philosophy and values underpinning core areas of welfare practice. They reflect on over a decade of devolution and assess developments across key themes such as governance, rurality, equality and social justice and language sensitive practice and key service areas such as health, child welfare and child poverty, youth policy, social work and Adult services.
The first edition of this text was welcomed as 'a must read..for any practitioner working in or considering working in Wales' Practice 2009
The first edition of this text was welcomed as 'a must read..for any practitioner working in or considering working in Wales' Practice 2009
This text provides a theoretically grounded and critical examination of the welfare framework in Wales and significantly adds to an important and growing literature on devolution
Professor Neil Thompson, DLitt, Avenue Consulting
Social Policy for Social Welfare Practice responds to the need for students, practitioners and other policy actors in Wales to be attentive to and involved in the development of indigenous policy making and shaping. There is little doubt that welfare regimes across the UK are diverging in significant ways and the responsibility for social welfare practitioners to engage proactively and critically with policy development in ways that bring real benefits to service users continues to grow.
This book provides an important overview of key social policy issues and themes and debates that impact on the practice arena in Wales. As such it makes an excellent contribution to a growing literature that critically engages with social service delivery under devolution and provides an important resource for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in Wales
Professor Andy Pithouse, Cardiff University
Charlotte Williams OBE is Professor of Social Work and Social Justice at Keele University. She has been in social work education for over twenty five years and has researched and published widely on race and ethnicity in welfare practice and on social policy issues in the context of devolution.
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Contents
List of tables, figures and boxes
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
SECTION ONE: Understanding Devolution
What is Wales?
Charlotte Williams
Governance and Social Policy in a Devolved Wales
Mark Drakeford and Lee Gregory
Post-Devolution Health Policy in Wales
Michael Sullivan and Mark Drakeford
SECTION TWO: Key Themes in Service Delivery
From the Margins to the Centre: Language-sensitive Practice and Social Welfare
Elaine Davies
Child Poverty in Wales – A Failed Promise?
Anne Crowley
Reaching Rural Areas: Social Services in the Welsh Countryside
Richard Pugh
Equalities and Social Justice in a Devolved Wales
Charlotte Williams
SECTION THREE: Service Delivery Areas
Children’s Policy in Wales
Ian Butler
Youth Policy and Youth Justice in Wales
Jayne Neal
Social Services for Adults in Wales
Hefin Gwilym
Social Work in a Devolved Wales
Charlotte Williams
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
SECTION ONE: Understanding Devolution
What is Wales?
Charlotte Williams
Governance and Social Policy in a Devolved Wales
Mark Drakeford and Lee Gregory
Post-Devolution Health Policy in Wales
Michael Sullivan and Mark Drakeford
SECTION TWO: Key Themes in Service Delivery
From the Margins to the Centre: Language-sensitive Practice and Social Welfare
Elaine Davies
Child Poverty in Wales – A Failed Promise?
Anne Crowley
Reaching Rural Areas: Social Services in the Welsh Countryside
Richard Pugh
Equalities and Social Justice in a Devolved Wales
Charlotte Williams
SECTION THREE: Service Delivery Areas
Children’s Policy in Wales
Ian Butler
Youth Policy and Youth Justice in Wales
Jayne Neal
Social Services for Adults in Wales
Hefin Gwilym
Social Work in a Devolved Wales
Charlotte Williams