, facilitated by social media, while more formal organisations adapted their practices and focus to mobilise to support pandemic efforts ( Boelman, 2021 ). However, to suggest that the voluntary sector in Wales is without issues is a misconception. In acknowledging the remarkable response and the broader reliance on voluntary activity, we also highlight its precarious condition through longer-term structural challenges of austerity and funding arrangements. We also highlight the divergent responses in Wales, with very different outcomes for organisations and volunteers. The
Introduction This book is about criminal justice under austerity. It tells the stories of how those who work in or go through the criminal justice system experience criminal justice. In telling these stories, we focus on voices from Wales. Wales is the site of this research and the book provides a snapshot of how criminal justice is experienced in Wales at a time of austerity. Wales has been too often ignored in consideration of the criminal justice system of England and Wales, so we offer the insights of those with whom we spoke in south Wales to provoke
With a foreword by First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, this book is the first to offer an in-depth look into what makes the Welsh Social Work context unique. It includes the move towards joint children, families and adult provision and the emphasis on early intervention, future generations and partnership considerations.
Covering the subject knowledge required by the Welsh regulator, Social Care Wales, it provides essential reading for students and practising social workers in Wales, and rich contextual analysis for other international social work practitioners and writers. Each chapter includes:
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dialogue on the distinctive ‘Welsh Way’ that underpins the nation’s social work approach;
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focus on application: responses and implications for professional practice;
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the ‘giving of voice’ section: demonstrating the key emphasis in Welsh practice of ensuring that multiple stakeholder perspectives are actively heard;
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key resources for further independent exploration of the topics.
81 FIVE Probation practice with women offenders in Wales Kate Asher and Jill Annison Prologue (Kate Asher) My experience of working with women offenders began in Bristol in 2002, when my first case as a trainee probation officer was a woman. I can still recall the scene – me sitting really rigidly and nervously at the edge of my chair in the interview room, scared that I wouldn’t know what to say. However, if I was anxious, just imagine how petrified the woman concerned must have been, to be sitting there talking to a complete stranger about her most
223 NINETEEN England, Scotland and Wales in context How does the situation in England, Scotland and Wales compare with that found in other countries? In particular, how do different governments address their own rural housing questions; what are the prevailing attitudes to rural resources and rural development; and are approaches found elsewhere rationalised by a broad developmental or environmental perspective of ‘the countryside’? Throughout this book, we have implied that collectively (but not withstanding local differences) England, Scotland and Wales
At first glance, the figures show that support for Brexit in Wales was similar to that in England. As in England, there was a correlation in Wales between voting preference in the referendum with age, level of education, a concern about immigration driving wages down and generating pressure on public services, political alienation and authoritarian attitudes (Seidler, 2018 ; Awan-Scully 2017 ). An important issue for Leave voters was a sense that those with power were looking after themselves rather than after ‘us’, the ‘ordinary people’. Voting Leave was
Introduction Official statistics show that approximately 23% of Wales’ population lives in income-defined relative poverty and that 30% of children experience child poverty, most living in homes where at least one parent is in employment (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2018 ). It is likely that at least another 20% of people live close to the ‘poverty line’ with many families moving in and out of official poverty over time. Spatially this poverty is located within Wales’ largest cities, its former industrial heartlands and scattered around small rural and
Towards more consistent and predictable sentencing in England and Wales Jessica Jacobson, Julian Roberts and Mike Hough The structure of sentencing guidelines in England and Wales is likely to undergo a significant transformation following publication of the final report of the Sentencing Commission Working Group. The Working Group has rejected the creation of a US-style sentencing commission for England and Wales (2008b),1 having made clear in its consultation paper that it had also decided against the introduction of a US- style sentencing grid for this
99 7 The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales In Chapter 4, we provided statistics of blood donors for the country as a whole and on a regional basis from the establish ment of the National Blood Transfusion Service in 1948 to 1970. They told us nothing, however, about the characteristics of the donor population by age, sex, marital status, income group and other attributes. At the local donor session and at the regional level, the staff of the Service acquired much knowledge and experience conc erning the recruitment of donors of different
Policy & Politics vol 31 no 4 33 © The Policy Press, 2004 • ISSN 0305 5736 Mainstreaming equality in Wales: the case of the National Assembly building Julia Edwards Final submission 4 February 2003 • Acceptance 25 February 2003 Key words: policy making • mainstreaming equality • Wales • design Policy & Politics vol 32 no 1 33–48 English Institutional discrimination in public policy denies equality of opportunity to the diversity of citizens. Mainstreaming, or building in, equality at initiation stage of policy making may be the best way of overcoming this
