Ellen Daly

Prison leavers and homelessness

Insight 29

Examines the relationship between homelessness and offending, the impact of prison, key challenges and messages for practice.

The Canadian "Home Children": a case study in the digitisation of social work heritage material

Social work and social welfare services in the developed world have a rich, if relatively recent, history with origins in the social upheavals associated with rapid industrialization and urbanization during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is a regular flow of scholarly work analysing historical trends in the policies and practices of social welfare agencies.