This article discusses professional discretion in relation to placing a child outside the family, as understood by Malawian social workers. The article is a product of an exploratory study covering different aspects of ...

Dei siste årtia har det pågått ein debatt om skjønsutøvinga sine vilkår innan sosialt arbeid under New Public Management. New Public Management har vore kjenneteikna av at styresmaktene ønskjer å effektivisere tenesteproduksjonen ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a supply-side review of policies and practices that impact on the shortage of supply in the contemporary specialist housing market for older people in the UK. Design/me ...

The pretension of human rights to be universally valid irrespective of contingent historical and societal conditions is questionable. By their very definition, the rights imply a difference between man and society. The ...

Background: Interprofessional curricula have often lacked explicit reference to theory despite calls for a more theoretically-informed field that illuminates curricular assumptions and justifies curricular practices. Aim: ...

Despite societal concerns about the welfare of commercial laying hens, little attention has been paid to the welfare implications of the choices made by the genetics companies involved with their breeding. These choices ...

The adoption in 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has seen a quantum leap in the recognition- and expansion of initiatives to uphold children’s participation rights. The Ombudsman for Children plays ...

Social workers are a part of the wider counter-terrorism efforts in many European countries, such as the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Belgium. While there are several theoretical and discursive studies on ...

Lack of adjustment or school failure is of concern to educators, child welfare workers, educational, and school psychologists as well as parents, but there are few studies on this aspect of education, especially among late ...