Social Policy

Databases

• Community Care Inform: Children: Contains expert-written, practice-related information, including: Guidance to key pieces of legislation Expert articles Practice guides It has been built with and for social workers and other professionals who work with children, young people and their families.
• Criminology Collection: This collection gives you access to information on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services.
• Manchester Security, Conflict and Peace: Includes 61 books covering key issues and debates on international, regional and national security, domestic and international terrorism as well as conflict management and resolution and practices of peacebuilding.
• Newsstreams Newspapers: You can access local, regional and national newspapers from around the world.
• Social Policy Digest: The Digest provides a regularly up-dated, fully searchable, summary of policy developments and research findings across the whole range of social policy.
• Social Sciences Databases: This provides access to key UK and worldwide articles and research, including the Criminal Justice Database.

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