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Federal/State Responsibility for Child Welfare Services

Children Australia, 1984
In Victoria at the present time a major review is being undertaken into child welfare practice and legislation. The importance of this task is two-fold. Not only do children have to gain from a sensitive and workable final Report, but families too could find that they will be offered the support they need to assist in the difficult task of raising ...
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Provision of Services and the Welfare State

1992
Public service is an ambiguous concept. Normally it refers to facilities to which people have a right, but services may back up obligations (the taxman). There are also traditional combinations, as in compulsory education. The state has long been a major provider of services, although these have not always been solicited as anxiously as many of them ...
A. P. N. Nauta, H. van der Wusten
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National Service and the Welfare-Warfare State

Social Service Review, 1983
The introduction of an all-volunteer military in the United States has raised a number of basic questions. Is the new manpower system producing an effective military force, especially in the combat arms? What is the political and moral basis of a system that relies heavily on members of deprived minorities to be the combat soldiers?
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The potential effects of welfare reform on states' financing of child welfare services

Children and Youth Services Review, 1999
Abstract Welfare reform and related changes have the potential to significantly affect states' financing of child welfare services both directly and indirectly. While the actual effects of these changes are not yet known, there have been no baseline data on states financing practices upon which to measure change.
Rob Geen, Shelley Waters Boots
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