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Social care services
— the key to the Scandinavian welfare model | | Author(s) | Jorma Sipilä |
| Publisher | Avebury, Aldershot, 1997 |
| Pages | 198 pp |
| Source | Avebury, Ashgate Publishing Group, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3HR. |
| Keywords | Services ; Local Authority ; Social Services Departments ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Sexual equality ; Statistics [data] ; Scandinavia ; Denmark ; Finland ; Norway ; Sweden ; Iceland. |
| Annotation | This book explains the development in Scandinavian countries of distinctive models of social care services - support services to help people cope in their everyday lives. It describes each country's concept of social service, and how the "Scandinavian Welfare States" began with modernisation of social care services in the post-war period. The history of Iceland's local authority social services is looked at separately. Clients' characteristics, tensions between local and central governments, whether local autonomy causes marked differences between service standards in different authorities, and the nature of the welfare state as a gender issue are discussed in turn. Scandinavian welfare is compared with welfare policies in the rest of Western Europe. An appendix gives a statistical summary of the development of social services for children, the elderly and disabled in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden from 1960 to 1993. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970605205 B |
| Classmark | I: PE: PF: TY: TM2: TM8: 6C: 76G: 76K: 76L: 76N: 76P: 76R |
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