Social Policy and Human Rights

Social policy relates to guidelines for the changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to human welfare. Thus social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security. In an academic environment, social policy refers to the study of the welfare state and the range of responses to social need. This book is an overview of human rights ideas and laws for social workers that stresses the importance of human rights in all types of social work policy and practice. This is a pioneering attempt of its kind which gives a holistic treatment to the evolving fields of social science studies, which have attained prime significance in contemporary global society.