Sentences with phrase «of social policy»

A keen interest in labour, employment, human rights and related areas of social policy, as well as genuine social and intellectual curiosity about these areas of law are essential.

As a matter of social policy, consistent, good daycare, may ensure adequate early childhood education for children of less skilled parents.

He has promoted modern thinking on civil liberty, the environment and aspects of social policy.

Guess what: No interventions in education (or the rest of social policy) would meet that daunting standard.

His central interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, particularly the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in American society.

This needs a collective rejection of the mechanism of the mere «free market» as the guide of social policy.

As a consequence, the social scientist, whether or not he intends it, is implicated in the formation of social policy decisions.

But as I've stated before, in some contemporary art approaches, cultural heritage is mostly the legacy of a social policy.

We are an independent membership organisation that aims to provide a strong, unified voice for social workers and play a leading role in the development of social policy.

Finally, in terms of social policy, there is now sufficient evidence to encourage the development of widespread behavioural training programs for parents of preschool - aged children.

A former economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, he was appointed professor of social policy at Bath University shortly before his election victory in 1997 and has published several books and pamphlets on social security.

Kerris Cooper and Kitty Stewart of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and the Department of Social Policy at LSE found the strong evidence of the causal effect between household income and children's outcomes after reviewing 61 studies from OECD countries including the US, UK, Australia, and Germany.

He teaches within the Department of Social Policy at the LSE, and is Director of the Policy Analysis Centre Ltd..

He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington and serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Children's Trust and Prevent Child Abuse America.

He is also director of the social policy program at the University of Maryland.

The Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, 2002, 10, 98 - 119.

This issue of Social Policy Report proposes that schools should take a new approach: integrating the teaching and reinforcement of SEL skills into their daily interactions and practices with students.

Strengthening Families: Around the Nation Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides information on various stakeholders from the Federal level down to community projects that support the strengthening families strategy.

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.

Writing in the New Statesman, Anna Coote, head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation, has argued that the UK should work its way gradually towards a 30 hour working week — to help in the fight for gender equality in the workplace and at home.

Be Strong, not stressed: Strong Families Brochure A new brochure from Center for the Study of Social Policy helps parents understand how to keep their families strong with protective factors explanations and «tune - up tips.»

Yoshikawa's book, Toward Positive Youth Development Transforming Schools and Community Programs, was also honored recently by being named the 2010 recipient of the Social Policy Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research in Adolescence.

In the last six months I have been repeatedly impressed by the number of members of the Clinton administration who have assured me with great vigor that something or other is known in an area of social policy which, to the best of my understanding, is not known at all.

One thing that does emerge very clearly from the text, however, is Storr's great love of classical music, the very high value that the author places on musical experience, and the belief that we live in a world where such experience is both undervalued and becoming rarer; all points that need to be endorsed wholeheartedly given the materialistic and actuarial concepts that now serve as the bases of social policy in the «developed» world.

First, PiS has been able to present a comprehensive program of social policy after numerous years of merry neoliberalism in Poland.

Such growth came hand in hand with a continuing decrease in poverty and income inequality, and the strengthening of social policies by the recently elected president Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party).

She holds a B.A. in Quantitative Studies of Social Policy from Harvard University, an M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

The articles are part of an issue of the Social Policy Report.

The principles cover a wide set of social policy areas and range from matters already extensively covered by the EU social acquis like gender equality and health and safety at work to matters currently beyond the EU's (legislative) competence like the minimum income, wages and assistance for the homeless.

The Ukrainian national governing entity responsible for intercountry adoption is the Department for Families and Children (DFC) in the Ministry of Social Policy and regional courts near the child's residence are responsible for the judicial process for adoption.

Levie told Reuters in June that he supported Clinton because of the social policies of her party, such as support for legalizing gay marriage.

Whalen is the 1994 recipient of the Social Policy Book Award from the Society for Research in Adolescence.

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

We often trap ourselves in an engineering model when we turn to the construction of social policy, a model that can lead us to impose solutions that are no solutions at all.

You spout off about the importance of charity and generosity as Biblical principles, but likely support movements like the tea party that promote the evisceration of social policies.

The modern pluralistic religious ethos has provided materials for a quantum leap in ideological justifications, and has made the task of honest discernment of social policy more difficult and all the more necessary at all levels of the church.

At the level of social policy, this axiom has achieved some recognition in recent years through the federal requirement for environmental - impact statements by those responsible for major public land - use projects.

In fact, following this lethal logic, we should encourage, maybe even mandate (law being the last step in the process of social policy) a time when the person bearing it is to dispose of it.

To all who work in shaping public policy, the Pope directs a special plea to make a concern for the health of the family «the basis and driving force of all social policies.»

Fifty years ago, the former could be more or less taken for granted in the sense that most Americans recognized that, at least for purposes of social policy, they should be concerned for the people of the nation as a whole and that, for purposes of international policy, they should be concerned for the world as a whole.

It was just in this period that, as Nathan Glazer put it in The Limits of Social Policy, we witnessed «the breakdown of traditional ways of handling distress,» ways that «are located in the family primarily, but also in the ethnic group, the neighborhood, the church.»