With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs.Including a forward by...

Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society.This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child power relations which,in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies and procedures introduced to address the ‘explosion’of interest in the i...

HUMANITY STORIES IS INTRINSIC TO EVERY NATIONALITY, MEANING" THE HUMAN RACE. THESE STORIES SHOW WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON. THROUGH THIS JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE, THERE IS AN ANSWER, GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, PRAISE GOD WE CAN TURN THIS AROUND!!!

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions.This book analyses the ‘left-behind’ phenomenon and shows how education has become the new divide in Western society. It explains how denied educational equality and frustrated opportunity are undermining social cohesion and what we can do about it. It challenges meritocratic thinking and the efficacy of widening partici...

The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling analysis of one of the central issues of our times.In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civi...

The political economy of the Irish welfare state provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital.Using official estimates, Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state is vital for the cohesion of Irish society with half the population at risk of poverty without it. However, the reality is of a residual welfare system dominated by means tests, with a tw...

Continuing professional development (CPD) has become a defining issue in twenty-first century social work. There is widespread consensus in favour of CPD. But what is it? Are there discernible international trends? What are the barriers to participating in CPD? What do social workers think about and want from CPD? This book seeks to answer these questions.Based on a survey and interviews with social work practitioners, CPD in social work offers a unique insight into the possibiliti...

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy su...

The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection gathers seventy-seven works into a capacious survey of early modern espionage fiction, where covert observation, diplomatic intrigue, imperial rivalry, sabotage, and threatened national security repeatedly test the boundaries between private conscience and public duty. Adventure tales, detective narratives, political thrillers, invasion scares, and psychologically charged studies of secrecy coexist here, revealing the genre's movement from sensatio...

The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection offers an expansive exploration of espionage literature, weaving together 77 narratives that encapsulate the intrigue, suspense, and psychological dimensions of spy fiction. This anthology traverses various literary styles'Äîfrom the gripping pace of thrillers to the nuanced depth of psychological explorations. The collection showcases a vast canvas of clandestine adventures, ingenuity, and moral ambiguity, inviting readers to experience the clande...

The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection (77 Books in One Volume) delves into the art of espionage with a remarkable array of stories that define the spy fiction genre. This anthology traverses a broad spectrum of narrative styles, ranging from the gripping suspense typical of classic spy thrillers to the subtle intrigue found in early detective fiction. Amidst these varied tales, the reader will encounter themes of loyalty, deceit, and international intrigue set against the backdrop of s...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely ...