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Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service. Written by a well-known author, trainer and adviser on welfare rights issues, this book includes:learning objectivesactivities to test understandingillustrative case studies. It also covers core welfare rights skills, such as interviewing, legal.

Aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance on how to develop a welfare rights service. This book is useful to welfare rights workers, social workers, social care practitioners, and to those studying social work

'Retinking the Welfare Rights Movement' provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and key figures, the movement's strengths and weaknesses, and how it intersected with other social and political movements of the time.

Welfare Rights and Social Policy provides an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which are explored in historical, comparative and critical context. At a time when the cause of human rights is high on the global political agendathe authorasks why the status of welfare rights as an element of human rights remains ambiguous. Rights to social security, employment, housing, education, health and social care are critical to human well-being. Yet they are invariably subordinate to the civil and political rights of citizenship, they are often fragile and difficult t

A recent NAPO Newsletter note by South West London's Welfare Rights Group led to nearly 200 requests for copies of their form to help those in low paid work to obtain assisted prison visit payments. This example of sharing pertinent information on the increasing complexities of Welfare Rights affecting clients shows the possibilities in what will be an increasing demand on the Service following the Fowler Review.