Browsing Social Studies by Subject "Policy"
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Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
(2024)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ... -
Cut from the Same Cloth: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of Disability in Child Protection and Welfare Policies within Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic
(2023)The isle of Ireland is both socio-politically and geographically divided. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have distinct, siloed child protection and welfare systems owing to political severance in the early ... -
From dissent to authoritarianism: What role for social work in confronting the climate crisis?
(2022)INTRODUCTION: As the environmental crisis deepens and the effects begin to emerge in the form of disruptive and destructive climate events, more nation-states have ostensibly committed to carbon net zero by 2050. Achieving ... -
'I've changed so much within a year': care leavers' perspectives on the aftercare planning process
(2019)Increasing the participation of children and young people in matters related to their care and aftercare is regarded as international best practice. While research demonstrates that children and young people benefit from ... -
In Transit? Insights from the lived experience of lone parents claiming Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
(2024)This research, conducted in conjunction with One Family, set out to document the lived experiences of Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment (JST) recipients and to explore how JST is working ‘on the ground’. Because JST is a ... -
Learning from the Literature on Social Work and Social Care with Children: The Utility of a Jansson Framework of Policy-Practice
(2021)his article presents critical commentary on the relationship between wider policy in Ireland for children, and the practice of social workers and social care workers who work with children on the ground level. An overview ... -
Opening up a national conversation on domestic abuse: Awareness raising campaigns in Ireland during Covid-19. A Case Study
(2022)At the start of the pandemic in early 2020, concerns emerged from around the globe about increased levels of domestic abuse (DA) and the impact that public health measures and restrictions to slow down the transmission ... -
Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches
(2024)Policy documents shape and inform policy but they are not neutral objects. Policy documents can also silence through the exclusion and omission of discrete knowledges transmitted through testimony and lived experience. ... -
Public Health Directives in a Pandemic: Paradoxical Messages for Domestic Abuse Victims in Four Countries
(2022)When the COVID-19 pandemic manifested urgent concerns were raised around the globe about the increased risk that public health restrictions could pose for victims of domestic abuse. Governments, NGOs and community services ... -
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has put increased pressure on health and social service providers, including social workers who continued front line practice throughout the pandemic, engaging with some of the most ... -
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?
(2022)In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare ...