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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Welfare policy"”.
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Social services and twentieth century social welfare policy
… services an important instrument of public welfare reform. The law represented the culmination of a half-century effort on the part of public welfare officials to secure recognition for public social services as a distinctive yet integral feature of progressive social welfare policy in the …
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Towards a model for social welfare policy formulation in KwaZulu
… into consideration in the formulation of Social Welfare Policy. The Structure in the Government service is such that Policy's are formulated by top management. Top management in the Government Service is constituted by the Ministry. When the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly sits the Minister at one …
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Education, Welfare Policy and working-class children: A study of Preston, 1919 to 1939.
Education, Welfare Policy and working-class children: A study of Preston. 1919 to 1939. By the first decade of the 20th centuzy, over thirty years of progressive reform since the 1870 Education Act had demonstrated the need for a system of welfare provision that would ensure working-class …
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Aspects of South African state welfare policy : a study in public finance and income redistribution
International redistribution studies vary in scope from those which investigate the full range of all benefits and costs of the fiscal system to others restricting their coverage to the distributive impact of a single expenditure or tax. In South Africa relatively little research has been directed …
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The Dynamics of American Welfare Policy: Testing Models of Growth for Aid to Families With Dependent Children
This study examined the causes of growth in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program over the years 1946 through 1977 in Illinois. Specifically, six hypotheses were tested: AFDC growth is a function of population, level of employment, level of anti-poverty spending, incidence of civil …
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The politics of welfare policy reforms: a comparative study of how and why changes of government affect policy making on social cash transfer programmes in Zambia and Malawi
… thesis examines how and why social protection policy reforms happened after changes of government in Zambia and Malawi. It provides four case studies that account for the process of reforms to promote or constrain social cash transfer programmes (SCTs) by government administrations within and …
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Time to stop blaming parents: A case study of parents’ and children’s experiences of family life and in marginalised communities with implications for parenting interventions, educational welfare policy and practice
… communities inform formal educational welfare policy and practice through Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS). Employing a case study approach, qualitative research methods were used to gather data from seven parents (via semi-structured interviews) and eight children …
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Welfare policy and the family in post-apartheid South Africa: Care for orphans and vulnerable children in the context of HIV/AIDS and widespread poverty in Kopanong Municipality, Free State
… It asked whether the application of current welfare policies recognises or facilitates extended family care for orphans. The care for orphans has been conceptualised in terms of the lack of adequate number of members of extended family who would provide care for orphans and the quality of …
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Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts
Welfare Reform: Politics, Policy and The Courts is a detailed analysis of welfare reform as directed by Congress in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996. The thesis entails the following: an analysis of the historical factors that have led to legislative reform of the US welfare policy; an …
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Shaping Justice : Defining the disability benefit category in Swedish social policy
… in a disability category in Swedish social policy. In other words are social classifications, public considerations about the categorising in focus. Through empirical 'case' analyses this thesis shows that very different conclusions can demark a disability category in welfare policy. The …
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A study of the cultural explanation of welfare: the effect of values on social policy within the welfare states
… attention on culture within the school of social policy and the development in theorising the relationship between culture and welfare. However, the cultural analysis of welfare has not been sufficiently supported by empirical evidence. Within the existing research, the causal effect of culture on …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become more stingy and punitive, particularly since the passage of welfare reform in 1996. On the surface, this does not seem to be the case for the food stamp program or for emergency food …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
With the repeal of federal programs by the 1996 welfare reform law (PL 104-193), state governments have been given new responsibility for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on …
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Local Commitment to JOBS
… of changing our method of evaluating social welfare policy. We need to move beyond analyzing the actions of participants and the impact a program has on participants to illuminating the entire process by which social welfare policy operates if we are to fully understand its impacts. Upon …
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An International Spatial Analysis of the Welfare Spending’s Influence on Measles Immunization
Background: Welfare policy may reflect political-economic contexts that have important implications for peoples’ lives, including their health. Previous research has explored how welfare policies influence health, but no research has explored how welfare spending influences health interventions. …
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Statutory-voluntary collaboration in service provision for adults with disabilities
… development of collaboration/ coordination in welfare policy, by discussing models of coordination, and by defining what is meant by community care. The study considered and proposed 4 models of management which would enable the coordination of community care services to take place.
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Essays on the political economy of welfare and redistribution
… First, why do some countries have more generous welfare policies than others? Second, why do some people support welfare policies more than others? This collection of essays aims to answer these two questions, focusing on the political and economic determinants of welfare policy and attitudes. …
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency : its assumptions, underlying values and manifistation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
Concern over "welfare dependency" has featured prominently in the public discoursearound social assistance programmes in numerous countries for many years. The notionthat social assistance payments tend to sap the recipient's initiative, independence andpropensity for securing paid employment is …
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Application of developmental strategies in upgrading foster families: Ulundi region
… era brought many changes in the South African welfare policy. Among the changes envisaged was the need for the adoption and implementation of the developmental approach in terms of the White Paper for Social Welfare (1997), which strives to promote basic human rights, dignity and self reliance. …
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