Social Policy Essays

Does Africa Need Foreign Aid for Poverty Alleviation?
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017
Introduction: By Carolyne Simiyu Foreign aid, is the transfer and loaning of funds, international goods or services from one country to another. It is often transferred from one developed economy to another devel...

Effects of Welfare Reform
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017
Introduction: Kelsey Campbell Imagine being a single parent having six kids and being able to only afford a two bedroom apartment. While working two jobs just to pay bills, put food on the table, and keep the kid...

Teenage Violent Crime Rates in the US
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017
Introduction: Erica Goncalves What do teenagers do after school? Research states that “1 in 5 children in the United States are unsupervised after school”. This leads to teen violence. Teen violence a...

Parental Influence on Consumption and Abuse of Alcohol
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017
Introduction: Douglas Scott Burton Adolescence is the years from which puberty begins in childhood to when puberty ceases in adulthood. Generally, it is divided into three stages: early adolescence which overall ...

Social Policy: Descriptive and Analytical
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017
Introduction: Social policy as an academic subject is both descriptive and analytical. Discuss drawing on at least three academic references. In this essay the author will define social policy as an academic subjec...

How has US Immigration Policy been Criticized over Time?
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Directions: How has US immigration policy been criticized over time? Students need to consider public challenges to immigration policy. Write a paragraph using evidence from the sources that compare...

Minimum Wage Debate in the US
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Minimum wage has been a subject of sustained and polarizing debate in the realm of U.S. labor economics right from the time the Department of Labor came into existence in 1913 (Neumark, Salas &...

Medicaid Funding Relationship with Nonprofit Organizations
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Introduction/Background Allard and Smith (2014) define legally incorporated, tax-exempt entities that provide specific services to be nonprofit social service organizations. They can help low-incom...

Theory of Change for Women's Community Support Group
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Describe the program logic Explain logic of change ( theory of change) that underpins it Who are we aiming to support and why-the target group This program is aimed at supporting a group of young wo...

Neo-Liberals versus Social Democrats in Security and Tax
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: What are the different views of neo-liberals versus social democrats with regards to social security and taxation? One of the most important features of democracy, that allows it to be such a succe...

Collaborative Working Policies Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Introduction Q1. In this assignment, I will investigate and research policy and legislation surrounding collaborative working and the positives and negatives. Collaborative working is the term used...

Changing Ethos of the Department of Social Protection
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Aug 2017
Introduction: REPORT ON THE CHANGING ETHOS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL PROTECTION I am writing about the way the Department of Social Protection has evolved since the recession in 2009.  How their Services were ...

China's Cultural Revolution: Reforms in the Education System
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2017
Introduction: The period of the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1969) witnessed a massive effort by the Maoist leadership to engineer the socialist transformation of Chinese society, one of the area most radic...

Dynamics of Apartheid in South Africa
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2017
Introduction: It is easy to forget that Apartheid only finished twenty six years ago in 1991 when the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act was passed this subsequently led to the repealing of the laws en...

Youth Violence Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2017
Introduction: Youth violence is increasing and quickly becoming one of the major concerns in American today. Frequent youth violence can be found at schoolyard, at home, outside, and everywhere in the community. Wh...

Poverty and Social Exclusion
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2017
Introduction: Poverty Social Exclusion Is social exclusion just a new term for poverty? Discuss. This essay will begin by defining the key terminologies used within the main text, beginning with the two definitions...

Factors Influencing Public Policy
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jun 2017
Introduction: As for a good government, the valuable public policy, which refers to the government action or inaction to deal with particular issues, can be regarded as one of the evaluation criterions. Thus, it se...

Social Problems in the UK | Analysing the British Welfare State
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: IS THE BRITISH WELFARE STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS? Introduction The idea of a welfare state can be taken to have different meaning depending on the way it is applied...

The Labour Party and New Labour
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Jun 2017
Introduction: The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the left in Britain. Its formation was the res...

What Age Should Marriage be Allowed?
Example essay. Last modified: 31st May 2017
Introduction: People should be allowed to get married only after age of 30 Marriage is one of the most important systems which keep the continuation of the social unity through marriage between a man and a women...

Autonomy And Independence In Social Care
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: This report will critically explore how far social care legislation and policies have contributed to the autonomy and independence of people with learning disability problems. The report is divide...

Welfare To Work Programmes
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Welfare to work programmes have been used by governments since the 1980’s to articulate a desire to replace passive support for unemployment and active measures to help encourage people to g...

Youth Justice Policy in the UK
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Youth Justice Policy In order to evaluate why developments in youth justice policy and practice since 1997 are a cause for celebration and concern, the ideological motivations and the wider social and...

Impact of organizational culture
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Impact of Organizational Culture on employee’s job satisfaction and performance Does the organizational culture have any influence on employees at workplace? There are so many factors which bu...

Conventional Wisdom Society
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Introduction The term conventional wisdom is one that has raised a flurry of social indecisions in the past and the present. John Kenneth Galbraith coined it the year 1958. It refers to the belief...