Alternatives to criminalization for the simple possession of illicit drugs are increasingly of
interest to policy makers. But there is no existing theoretically based, empirically tested …

Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Routledge international
handbooks| Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.| Includes …

Macro-economic policy shapes and structures social welfare policy, services, and their
implementation. As a result, the commoditisation of social welfare services and the use of …

Stories of Care: A Labour of Law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and
labour that shape paid care work. Based on the experiences of homecare workers, this …

Social pedagogy and social work Page 2 Social Pedagogy ANDSocial Work Page 3 Sara
Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable …

Governments across the world have been slow in reacting to meeting the needs of disabled
people during the pandemic. This has exposed existing inequalities in social policies, as …

Abstract In April 2014, the Social Care (Self‐directed Support)(Scotland) Act 2013 (SDS Act)
was implemented in Scotland. This marked a major shift in how social care is delivered and …

This themed section is aimed at evaluating different personalised policies and at drawing a
clear map of opportunities and challenges for future implementations. All the essays are …

As personalization has dominated the policy agenda for reform in social care, its roll‐out as
a mainstream option has coincided with global programmes of austerity which have targeted …

Purpose In Scotland, the self-directed support (SDS) legislation is a catch-all payment
system which brings challenges to local authorities, service delivery organisations and the …