Legal and illegal immigrants are concentrated in U.S. border states. This paper asks to what extent geographic clustering is attributable to differences in state-provided public aid. California has been shown to have a disproportionate number of legal immigrant welfare users, but little evidence exists concerning illegal persons. Illegal immigrants may collect welfare benefits on behalf of lega...

This presentation analyses explores the interconnecting themes of knowledge, culture and change by examining the impact of the knowledge economy on the organization of welfare. It adopts as its specific focus the role of the welfare ‘expert’ in the social services. This is contextualised within the New Labour government’s social exclusion policies, the global knowledge economy and concepts of c...

1 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Clalit Health Services, Yaski Community Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel *Correspondence: jmerrick@za...

introduction: as the elderly population increases, chronic diseases and disabilities also become more prevalent. home care programs as hospital services supplement, not only can prevent elderly from get worse in their disabilities but also make it easier for governments to manage elderly people's needs therefore, we aimed to determine the home visit services provided for elderly residing i...

In June 2020 the government of Zimbabwe issued a statement intent towards embracing developmental social welfare approach by changing name Department Social Welfare to Development. This has been long-awaited move in indigenisation Zimbabwe’s services. However, despite such strong and progressive commitment government, there is no clear framework on how Development plans implement services Zimba...

In England, the dominant policy narrative recognises no association between spending on children’s services and quality a limited deprivation. We combined 374 inspection outcomes 2011 2019 with data preventative safeguarding expenditure Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) scores. A multilevel logistic regression model predicting ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ judgements suggests each £100 increase i...

Abstract Procurement is a widely adopted collaborative approach for acquiring new systems in the public sector. It exemplifies situation which early stages of digital system design define boundaries and constraints that must be specified tender document (i.e., binding offer). Researchers government officials have long recognized benefit end-user participation design. Given central role pre-tend...