Social Security in Great Britain

Social Casework in Great Britain

Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain

A major goal of infectious disease epidemiology is to understand and predict the spread of infections within human populations, with the intention of better informing decisions regarding control and intervention. However, the development of fully mechanistic models of transmission requires a quantitative understanding of social interactions and collective properties of social networks. We perfo...

A Social Security Plan for Great Britain: The Government's White Paper

IN JUNE 1941, the British Government asked Sir William Beveridge to recommend changes in the existing programs for social insurance and allied services. His report, presented in November 1942, 1 outlined a social security plan for "all citizens without upper income limit—all embracing in scope of persons and needs," based on assumptions that the Government would take other measures to prevent m...

Some recent developments in social service in Great Britain.

* Lecturer and Research Associate, School of Social Work, University of Toronto; author and formerly social worker in Great Britain. "Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person who, on or after the appointed day, being over school leaving age and under pensionable age, is in Great Britain, and fulfills such conditions as may be prescribed as to residence in Great Britain, shall become ...

Psychiatric Social Work in Great Britain (1939-1962)

With exemplary thoroughness Noel Timms has surveyed the history, annals anCl publications of psychiatric social workers and attempts to answer the searching question: "Who are these creatures and what do they do?" "Psychiatric social work began both as a specialised clinical function with1^ psychiatry and as an attempt to bring the 'psychiatric viewpoint' into social workMr. Timms goes on to re...