Example sentences of "[art] social [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the social conditions children , a whole generation brought up in violence without education and you know you survived only in South Africa if you are black by breaking the law ! |
| 2 | There should therefore be plenty of advice and practical help at a local level , via the social services departments and the medical profession . |
| 3 | It is the Social Services Departments ( Social Work Departments in Scotland , and Health and Social Services Boards in Northern Ireland ) that have the principal statutory duty to protect children . |
| 4 | In Nottinghamshire the social services departments will use teams rather than individual care managers to assess people and arrange packages of care . |
| 5 | Local authority housing departments require a close working relationship with occupational therapists employed within the social services departments ( SSDs ) , who advise on the technical aspects of adaptations . |
| 6 | The role of the social services departments in facilitating independent living |
| 7 | Although justified on the basis that the social services departments , and by implication the staff , were responsible for users ' safety during opening hours , this policy represented an explicit denial of users ' freedom . |
| 8 | But in most cases the aim of the social services departments is to find the child a substitute home as near to a good , normal home as possible , until such time as he or she can return to their own home . |
| 9 | The social services departments supervise the child during the statutory three-month period that elapses between the notification of adoption proceedings and the making of an adoption order by the court ; a social worker is usually appointed as a guardian ad litem , i.e. for the duration of the case , to interview the prospective adopters , investigate the relevant circumstances and report to the court . |
| 10 | One of the major tasks of the social services departments is that of helping families in difficulties . |
| 11 | The local authority ( now the social services departments ) , must decide on the most appropriate form of care . |
| 12 | The 1970 Act , for example , gave local authorities power to install telephones and television sets in the homes of the disabled , but the social services departments have been bewildered by how to decide on priorities between services and between individuals needing services . |
| 13 | This is most confusing since , in England and Wales , there are local government departments — the social services departments — that are responsible for the personal social services but are not directly concerned with health or social security , the main concerns of the secretary of state . |
| 14 | With that check came renewed questioning about the balance between services provided by the social services departments and the many forms of family , neighbourhood and commercially purchased care that they supplemented . |
| 15 | In 1990 , 6079 residents were enumerated in 241 establishments , including 21 NHS hospitals , 160 homes for elderly people ( 46 run by the social services departments , 105 private residential , and nine run by voluntary agencies ) , 32 private nursing homes , and four hospitals or hostels for the mentally or physically handicapped ( table I ) . |
| 16 | In many areas the Social Services departments have created the posts of interpreters to ‘ enhance service delivery , not to detract from the ongoing objective of attracting more staff with language skills . |
| 17 | They may also come to contract for the community health and care services their patients need , taking over from the social services departments or competing with them . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State will be aware that the social services departments of many local authorities are struggling to meet their financial commitments in implementation of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 19 | The courts may be impressed by the expertise of the social workers ; alternatively , they may tend to side with parents faced with the power of the Social Services Departments . |
| 20 | Chris was a former social worker who understood the social services negotiators and was trusted by them . |
| 21 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 22 | In what is described as ‘ a key statement ’ , the report claims that : ‘ the onus in all cases should be on the social services authorities to show that the private sector is being fully stimulated and encouraged and that competitive tenders or other means of testing the market , are being taken ’ . |
| 23 | At local level , responsibility for child care rests with the social services committees of the local authorities . |
| 24 | The social services managers were two or three years behind those in the NHS in developing contracts , although they were catching up fast . |
| 25 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 26 | The Social Services Inspectors are warning of physical abuse of children , drug taking and prostitution , that 's quite serious is n't it ? |
| 27 | At the same time , members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to revise the social affairs proposals stalled in the Council of Ministers for months . |
| 28 | Despite the furore in the press for months prior to the report ( see SR Oct 1990 ) and in the days before its publication , it actually contained minimal criticism of the social workers actions , and the joint working with the police ( a major concern in Cleveland in 1987 ) was praised . |