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Leading Public Sector Innovation (Second Edition)
The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field. Drawing …
International Handbook of Health Literacy
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as …
Creative Research Methods
Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions which are hard to answer using conventional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, …
Leading the Inclusive City
Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and …
Long-Term Care Reforms in OECD Countries
Since the early 1990s, long-term care policies have undergone significant transformations across OECD countries. In some countries these changes have responded to the introduction …
Community development
Community development finds itself in times of unprecedented political, social and economic change, locally and globally, at the same time as divisions between poverty and …
Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy
This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to …
Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection
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 …
Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare
This book offers an analysis and summary of the uses, abuses and limitations of attachment theory in contemporary child welfare practice. Analysing the primary science and drawing …
Critical Practice with Children and Young People
This valuable textbook for advanced students and practitioners helps readers cultivate a deeper knowledge and critical understanding of the contexts in which practice with children …
The Third Sector Delivering Public Services
This important book is the first edited collection to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the third sector’s role in public service delivery. Exploring areas such …
Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research
Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems …