Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe

Abstract

Part 1 Social policy and social change: from Socialist to Liberal Utopia - change in Poland's social policy since 1989, Jozefina Hrynkiewicz politics and social policy in the new Poland, Fred Powell current trends in family policy - European Union countries and Poland, Marek Rymsza family policy and family life in Poland, Anna Kwak social policy and the family in the United Kingdom, Gillian Pascall changes in prison policy as part of a political and economic transformation in Poland, Andrzej Mosciskier recent trends in English penal policy, Paul Roberts. Part 2 Social policy and economic change: higher education and the labour market in Britain, Daniel Lawrence trends of the 1990s in Swedish welfare policy - implications for social work education, Lennart Nygren the prevention and relief of unemployment in Britian, Paul Ransome changes in the Polish labour market during the period of transformation, Ewa Giermanowska and Jozefina Hrynkiewicz. Part 3 Social work in the new Europe: the Irish model of social work, Fionnuala Lordon and Izabela Rybka the development of social work in Britain 1869-1996, Mark Lymbery the history of social work in Sweden, Staffan Oberg social work education in Britain, Mark Lymbery delivering social work education in partnership in Britain, Tina Eadie the development of social welfare in Poland, Izabela Rybka.