SOCIAL POLICY

Social Policy

SOCIAL POLICY

1. Alcock, C. Daly.G, Griggs.E, (2008), Introducing social policy, 2nd edition.

This book was based on Britain's social policy that was introduced in 1980. Since then, they have experienced a huge success in their global policy making process. Before 1980, Government took up the responsibility of creating social policies for the country, but afterwards some other organizations also took up the responsibility to make contributions in this sector. At the present times, the trend noticed by witnessing a major shift for developing social policies. Now, the state institutions are transferring some of their responsibilities to various private organisations for carrying out work for the betterment of social work. The private organizations are making social policies for providing benefits to the citizens. Private organisations and other voluntary sectors have the resources required for social work as compare to the state institutions. The essay included the entire components that required for introducing social policy in a country. However, it highlighted the attributes that were purely related to 1980 UK policy. The authors of this book did a marvellous work by writing this book very well. All the people who purchased this book, highly influenced by the overall components of this book. The cost of the book was not that high, and, book readers did not find much difficulty in buying this book. Therefore, these were all the aspects related to this book.

2. Alcock, P. May, M and Rowlingson. K, (2008), The Student's Companion to Social Policy 3rd Edition.

This book was based on the principles of student's companion to social policy. This book, clearly written to provide valuable information to the students. The basic idea was to educate students about the various concepts related to social policy. It was necessary to enable students enhance their knowledge regarding social policy, because it was gaining a lot of value every year in UK's society. Social policy became one of the most important issues of the society, and, a lot of steps were even taken by the Government along with other private organisations for the betterment of people. Countries cannot afford to ignore the value of this sector because it can lead to negative consequences for the whole country. When the government or any other private sector is not going to take decisive steps for the implementation of social policy, then the citizens are going to suffer badly. Social policy is for people, not for any individual, or, a group of society. These issues must be clear in the minds of people. This is the reason why this book, written to create awareness about social policy in people's minds. Students were considered as one of the most important members of the society in this regard, and, they were addressed deliberately. The authors of this book presented great work and their writing was even very good. They addressed the issue in detail, and, all the information was informative. The presentation of the book was carried out quite ...