Social Policy Essays

Early Years Education and Children With Disabilities

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Partnership and Participation e.g. Sure Start or Direct payment Introduction The Local Government Act of 2000 requires all local authorities to consult with all other appropriate bodies when they are ...

Effect of EU Employment Policy on Management

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

EU Legal Regulations in the Areas of Employment and Social Policy and How These Have Impacted Managers/Organisations Introduction/Background The influence of the European Union has been pervasive, an ...

Effect of Government Policies on Tesco

Example essay. Published: 5th Mar 2019

This report will identify and explain a range of current government policies which have a significant effect on Tesco. An analysis will also be carried out on the implications of these policies as well as the changes in them and an explanation on how Tesco may react to them. ...

Effect of Politics on Health Care Policies

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

How Have Political Ideologies Helped to Shape Policy in the Healthcare Arena Introduction During the late 19th and early 20th Centuries welfare and the provision of healthcare was dominated largely b ...

Effect of Social Policy on Personal Life

Example essay. Published: 1st Aug 2018

‘Discuss the claims that social policy constructs personal lives’  In evaluating the evidence that social policy constructs personal lives, it is necessary to explain the terms ‘social pol ...

Effectiveness Community Punishment

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

“In spite of the many policy failures we have recounted, we remain convinced that diversion and decarceration are desirable and achievable goals”. Critically evaluate the effectiveness of communit ...

Effectiveness of Racial Discrimination Act in the UK

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Discuss the relationship between opportunities and outcomes of how successful legislation against racial discrimination has been a failure in the UK As Blackstone et al. (1998, p247-249) have argued, ...

Effects of Health Inequalities on Infant Mortality

Example essay. Published: 1st Aug 2018

Health and social policy assignment   Introduction Longest (2002), the Health Policy Institute Director at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, states that ”Public policies are autho ...

Effects of Reintroduction of Capital Punishment in the UK

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

The legal and political effects of re-introducing capital punishment into the British Criminal Justice System. Acknowledgement I would like to thank Ms Rebecca Greenhalgh of the charity group Amicus, ...

Effects of Welfare Reform

Example essay. Published: 15th Sep 2017

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 ...

Efficiency of Safety Belt Campaigns Analysis

Example essay. Published: 28th Mar 2018

The numbers of deaths have increased immensely in previous years; therefore road safety is a major concern. The RSA constantly try to amplify awareness of road safety as many drivers ignore new rules ...

Emergency Response System in the UK

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Emergency Response Systems in the United Kingdom By Khalil Jetha Emergency response protocol in the United Kingdom is unique, dependent on both the nature of the incident and the branch responding. T ...

Empowerment of Women through Neighbourhood Groups

Example essay. Published: 1st Aug 2018

Empowerment of Women through Neighbourhood Groups in Malappuram district of Kerala Haseena Jasmine C K   Abstract NeighbourHood Group (NHG) popularly known as Kudumbashree Ayalkoottam, is an innov ...

Ethical Arguments on Child Labour

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

The ethical arguments concerning organizations using suppliers which employ children. For the time being, the number of child labourers exceeds 250 million worldwide. In fact, child labour is defined ...

Ethical Debate on Tax Evasion in the UK and Methods to Stop Evasion

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Using relevant authority, critically evaluate the ethical debate surrounding tax evasion and the legal measures (UK and international) taken to tackle tax evasion. A contemporary debate ...

European Telecommunications Policy on Liberalisation

Example essay. Published: 14th Aug 2018

Introduction This paper critically discusses the European telecommunications policy which is mainly intended to liberalise all telecommunications goods and services. Telecommunications policy is conc ...

Evaluation of America’s Visa System

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

SHOULD DIVERSITY VISA BE CANCELLED? On October 31st, 2017, a suspected terrorist who is a 29-year-old uber driver and a professional truck driver mowed down pedestrians and cyclists alon ...

Evaluation of Australia’s Foreign Policy

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Foreign Policy Introduction The foreign policy contains strategies of self-interest that a country selects for safeguarding national interests and fulfilling the objectives of i ...

Evaluation of Digital Strategy for Borough Council

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Introduction In assignment one the current position of Solihull MBC was presented and this report will discuss the position and the barriers found and also discuss the importance and con ...

Evaluation of Housing Strategy in UK

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

New Deal for Communities’ Strategy & Evaluation of the Kensington, Liverpool NDC Area Table of Contents (Jump to) New Deal for Communities (NDC) – Principles and Background Thumbnail of ...

Evaluation of low-cost housing provision and delivery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Evaluation of low-cost housing provision and delivery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Introduction  Housing greatly influences any individuals’ living conditions. It has a lot ...

Evaluation of New Zealand’s Disability Strategy

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

TASK 1: LO4 1.1 Objective of the New Zealand disability strategy (2016-2026) Education Education is one of the objectives of the New Zealand disability strategy. It is ...

Evaluation of Systems for Permitting Guns

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

It’s a cold Friday morning and Bob is on your way to work, he arrives at work and it’s just a typical day on the job.  While 40 miles outside of Chicago and in the middle of his work day ...

Evaluation of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is a federal legislation that was enacted in 1974 and has been reauthorized multiple times, in fact the recent reauthorization was recently am ...

Evaluation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Evaluation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)  In 1975, President Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law during the Civil Rights ...

Evaluation of the Mental Health Act 2007

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

INTRODUCTION This report will consist of secondary research taken from government websites, newspaper articles and books. This piece of legislation has been chosen as it has a personal b ...

Evaluation of the UK’s Response to the Housing Crisis and Grenfell Tower

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

According to Shelter, Britain is experiencing a housing crisis. Identify and discuss some of the policies and practices of different governments to target the housing problem, with reference to G ...

Evaluation of the Welfare State

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Essay – Imagine yourself in an original state behind a veil of ignorance, you know nothing about the family you were born into. What type of welfare state would you prefer and why? ...

Evaluation of Utah’s Immigration Policy

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

 Even after eight and a half years, legal and illegal immigrants in Utah, still fear about deportation. In the year 2011, the state of Utah’s legislation passed an immigration bill, wh ...

Every Child Matters Policy: Analysis

Example essay. Published: 10th Jan 2018

Describe and discuss a specific area of policy, with particular regards to the social problems within which it was concerned, its ideological origin, its aims, its nature and its effects. For most pa ...

Evidence Based Policy in Drug Harm Minimisation

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Policy: Drug Harm Minimisation Using one of the case studies/issues presented by the guest lectures as the case study for your essay, do you think that politicians should base their poli ...

Factors in NHS Clinical and Corporate Governance

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Introduction This paper presents a critical insight on the key aspects associated with the deployment of clinical and corporate governance on an organization wide basis. The key managerial elements a ...

Factors Influencing Conflicts in Schools

Example essay. Published: 10th Jan 2018

FACTORS INFLUENCING CONFLICTS IN SCHOOLS.AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA. BY: BONIPHACE, M. FASILI.   INTRODUCTION: Organizational psychologists start with the view ...

Factors Influencing Public Policy

Example essay. Published: 30th Jun 2017

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 ...

Factors That Affect the UK Pension Crisis

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

Investigating the factors that affect the UK pension crisis Introduction This review examines the background literature regarding the causes of the UK pension crisis[1], and the various measures take ...

Family Structure Policy

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

HOW CHANGES IN THE FAMILY STRUCTURE HAVE AFFECTED POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM INTRODUCTION An introduction to social policy Social policy refers to the study of social welfare and how it relates to p ...

Fashion Children Family

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Fashion victims? Children and consumption: when looking at families and family life today, sociologists often ignore some key family members–children. An important new study has begun to look at ...

Female Headed Households: Status and Issues for Policy and Design

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Introduction “Gender is defined as what a given society believes about the appropriate roles and activities of men and women, and the behaviours that result from these beliefs. Gender ...

Fighting the Drug Epidemic One Step at a Time

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Fighting the Drug Epidemic One Step at a Time  Drugs are a problem that almost everyone is familiar with. How they can ruin lives and how hard it is to get over the addiction. Addic ...

File management

Example essay. Published: 26th Jun 2015

Developing a File Management System A filing system is developed by a good plan. Planning establishes direction and control it also ensures that everyone involved has a common understanding of purpose ...

Financial Capability | Policy on Pensions and Debt

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

How far does policy towards pensions, debt and the financial sector reflect the public’s level of financial capability? The public’s level of financial capability is an area that is causing p ...

Food Insecurity and Development of Inequality in Toronto, Canada

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

From Food Banks to Food Insecurity: Reflections of Toronto’s Growing Inequalities   Food banks were originally designed to provide short-term responses to Canadians facin ...

Food Scarcity in Djibouti

Example essay. Published: 27th Mar 2018

Djibouti is a small arid country in Eastern Africa. It has extremely important and convenient transshipment facilities at the mouth of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Its terrestrial neighbors are ...

Funding Accommodation for NHS Service Users

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

The implications of providing and/or funding accommodation for service users under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and Mental Health Act 1983: Community care is wrought with conflicting duties, i ...

Gay Marriage Government

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Gay marriage is the marriage that involves two people of the same sexes either a man and a man or a woman and a woman. It can also be seen as the term that is used by the government, the social group ...

Gender Quotas in the United States

Example essay. Published: 16th Apr 2019

More than 130 countries around the world have enacted various forms of gender quotas, to ensure a certain number of those running for or holding legislative office are women. These quotas have become ...

Global Gag Rule and Women’s Reproductive Health

Example essay. Published: 3rd Apr 2019

Global Health & Healthcare Governance: The Global Gag Rule. In August of 1984, the Reagan administration put in place the Mexico City Policy, more commonly known as the Global Gag Rule. The po ...

Globalization Theory on Welfare Provision

Example essay. Published: 14th Aug 2018

Globalization theory implies that the nation has little autonomy in organizing its welfare provision. Evaluate this statement, referring to at least two welfare regimes. At first glance this stateme ...

Gun Policy in the US: Advantages and Disadvantages

Example essay. Published: 19th Mar 2019

Gun Policy from Criminal Justice Perspective Overview The conflict concerning the control of guns in the United States of America has increased over the years because of the increased number of ...

Has Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Cuba Affected Cuban Immigration?

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Has foreign policy of the United States towards Cuba affected Cuban immigration? HAS FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES TOWARDS CUBA AFFECTED CUBAN IMMIGRATION? United States i ...

Hate Crime Legislation in the US

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Hate Crime     Hate crimes, is also known as bias-motivated crimes. Hate Crime is a crime, which is typically one that involves violence that is motivated by prejudgment ...

Health Promotion Care: An analysis

Example essay. Published: 25th Apr 2017

Health Promotion Care Module 2 Discussion Question Health promotion refers to the process of providing health care services to the public for increasing their awareness towards health education. Healt ...

Healthcare Policy Making Stages

Example essay. Published: 22nd Nov 2017

Rebecah M. Deguit Covering assessment criteria: Analyse and discuss the key policy making stages in healthcare policy formation. Discuss areas of policy and politics advocacy healthcare profes ...

High DUI Rates in America: An Evaluation

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

America’s Ludicrously High DUI Rate Joshuah Rauch   Careful examination of America’s DUI rate leads to pitiful statistics. The decrease over the last 30 years fails to be enough. Increased pub ...

History and Challenges of the Paris Agreement

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

How has climate change impacted business? Climate change is affecting the whole world because it is not just an environmental problem. It is believed that that the human socio-econom ...

History and Development of Social Policy in Ireland

Example essay. Published: 5th Aug 2019

Introduction    Social Policy was founded by Professor Richard Titmuss in the 1950s, he was the first professor of social policy and he linked social policy to social work. There is Social po ...

History of Migration, Immigration, Transnationalism, and Political Policies in the United States: 1875-Present

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

About 30,000 years ago the first migration to North America occurred when “Paleo Indians walked across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska then migrated their way down south. This happened ...

History of the Public Smoking Ban

Example essay. Published: 10th Jan 2018

The emergence of public smoking ban can be backdated to 1590 when Pope Urban VII threatened to excommunicate anyone who took any form of tobacco inside a church. Afterwards other European cities enact ...

History of Welfare in Ireland: Poor Law and Beveridge Report

Example essay. Published: 14th Aug 2018

This paper will briefly outline the development of social service provision in Ireland from 1922 to the present day, highlighting several factors such as the Poor Law (1598-1948) and The Beveridge Re ...

Home Appliances To The Countryside Social Policy Essay

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

The home appliance industry in China has mainly focused on exporting to European and America markets. It generally achieved double-digit growth in years before 2008. However, the export market is with ...

Homelessness Act 2002 Analysis

Example essay. Published: 18th Sep 2017

Assessing the new homelessness strategies introduced by the Homelessness Act 2002: are the housing needs of the young homeless in the UK closer…. ...

Homelessness Policies in the UK and Their Effects

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

Introduction The issue of homelessness and poverty in general are alwaswill always be on the forefront of national legislation. Although there have been recent claims from as far back as 2005 that ho ...

Homosexual Marriage Love

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

What are the rules of marriage? Who makes these rules and what are they based on? Is marriage for everyone? These are just a few questions that boggle people’s minds when it comes to the matter ...

Homosexuality Post War

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

embracing their homosexuality, but discreetly; leaving the country for more open-minded cultures ...

Housing Policy of Conservative Government: 1979 to 1997

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

What aspects of the housing policies of conservative Governments between 1979 and 1997 reflect the key policy principles of public choice theory? The following will discuss the aspects of the Conserv ...

How has US Immigration Policy been Criticized over Time?

Example essay. Published: 7th Sep 2017

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 ...

How Powerful is the US News Media in Setting the Nation’s Foreign Policy Agenda?

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

INTRODUCTION It cannot be gainsaid that the news media play significant role in setting the United State foreign policy agenda. Arnold(2011) argued that in setting the foreign policy age ...

Human Social Welfare

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Human Societies in general comprises different social classes with inhabitants ranging from privileged to under-privileged. There exist a number of philosophies to cater social needs of different esta ...

I Came, I Saw, I Conquered

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

They say that the records are meant to be broken, Fortresses are built to be conquered and benchmarks are set to be achieved because if it wasn’t for a record to be broken, benchmark to be achie ...

Immigration in the Last 20 Years: Effect on Community Diversity

Example essay. Published: 3rd Apr 2019

Immigration trends in the last 20 years and its effects on population and diversity in communities’ Abstract This paper discusses the key importance of immigration, specifically Mexican immig ...

Impact of ‘Femvertising’ Movement on Government Proposals

Example essay. Published: 12th Apr 2019

Can a theoretical movement like ‘Femvertising’ have a tangible impact on government proposals? In 2014, Always released the ‘Like a girl’ commercial intending to turn a phrase that had bec ...

Impact of Censorship

Example essay. Published: 15th Sep 2017

 Sydney Lau  What would put our freedoms in danger? The First Amendment states “Congress Shall make no Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof, ...

Impact of Crystal Meth Addiction

Example essay. Published: 4th Oct 2017

By the time you are in elementary you already have some knowledge on drugs. They affect us in various ways, sometimes even personally. For Luke it became a personal issue. At first he began living in ...

Impact of Mental Health Act 2007 on Children

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

‘The amendments introduced into the Mental Health Act 1983 by the Mental Health Act 2007, amending s.131 of the 1983 Act, in relation to the informal admission of 16 and 17 year olds is, at las ...

Impact of organizational culture

Example essay. Published: 16th May 2017

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 ...

Impact Of SMS On Society Social Policy Essay

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Nowadays mobile phone plays the key role in communication in many countries, it bring convenience because can carry out anywhere anytime, a lot of function like listen music, browse internet or play g ...

Impact of Social Security Privatization on the Elderly

Example essay. Published: 27th Nov 2017

Up until the Industrial Revolution, economic security for most people was maintained by working until old age and then being taken care of by ones’ children and family members. This type of economi ...

Impact of the Acheson Report on Health Policy

Example essay. Published: 14th Aug 2018

In what way did the Acheson Report represent a radical approach to health policy? How far did it inform New Labour’s’ policy on reducing inequalities in health? Introduction: A government ...

Impact of the Discretionary Social Fund

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

The introduction of the Social Fund in 1988 was politically driven. Prior to its introduction, there were available a series of grants… ...

Impact of the March for Our Lives Advocacy Campaign

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Two of the deadliest school shootings in American history were, the Columbine High School massacre which happened on April 20, 1999, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which occurred o ...

Impact of the Orphan Drug Act Incentives

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Impact of the Orphan Drug Act Incentives Background The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) of 1983 was created in an attempt to address an unmet pharmaceutical development need in healthcare ...

Impact of Working Time Directive on Employment Relations

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Working Title: Enough Hours in the Day? The Impact of the working time directive on the regulation of employment relationships within the UK and France. Research Question: What is the working time di ...

Impacts of Changes to Child Care Services in the UK

Example essay. Published: 13th Jul 2018

Discuss how the changes to children’s services currently being promoted by the government are likely to impact on the lives of children in need, their families and social workers undertaking their ...

Impacts of Controlling Population Growth

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

The effects of delaying marriages, medical facilities, women empowerment and the eradication of poverty are controlling the population growth. This essay will talk about why the government should ...

Implementation and Evaluation: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (“the Act”) was a celebrated victory for democrats in 2009. It was hailed as an advancement of civil rights. Overall, the Ledbetter Act had four impacts mainl ...

Importance of Age Discrimination in Employment Regulations

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

Abstract This dissertation discusses the rationale for age discrimination legislation, examining both evidence of age discrimination and incentives for employers to discriminate based on age. Questio ...

Importance of Teacher Unions to Develop Education

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

The Big brother of Education Today’s public education system is in great need of repair. Students in the US are slowly falling behind everyone else around the world. Which begs the ...

Improving Public Policy Delivery Through Market Mechanisms or Abandoning Marketization

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Assignment title: Does the route to improving public policy delivery lie in greater use of market mechanisms or abandoning marketization as a failed experiment? This essay will ultimate ...

Inclusive Community Garden for Food Security

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

A Literature Review Inclusive community garden can be a better solution for the food security issue Background Food security is a flexible concept as reflected in the ...

Increasing the Minimum Wage in America

Example essay. Published: 20th Feb 2019

A sample essay on social policy titled Increasing the Minimum Wage in America – SME-led expert academic writing services from UKessays.com. ...

Individual and Economic Benefits of Mandated Parental Leave in the United States

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

This research and its conclusions will seek to show the expansive issues which are the by-product of a lack of law mandating paid leave for parents. ...

Influences of the New Poor Law on Contemporary Welfare Reforms

Example essay. Published: 27th Mar 2019

Sample student essay covering Influences of the New Poor Law on Contemporary Welfare Reforms. For expert-level essays on social policy and other subjects, contact UK Essays today. ...

Instrumnetal Methods For The Quantification Of Capsaicinoids Social Policy Essay

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

INSTRUMNETAL METHODS FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF CAPSAICINOIDS. INTRODUCTION Capsiacinoids are natural alkaloid compounds found in pepper fruits (Capsium spp.) which are responsible for the burning se ...

Integrated assesment

Example essay. Published: 11th May 2017

HNC Social Care Integrated Assessment 2 Catherine McAvoy Values are standards and principals by which we live our lives. These standards are many and often depend on people`s background e.g. Culture, ...

International Policy Analysis: Methodology

Example essay. Published: 23rd Jul 2018

1. Introduction The last decade has witnessed many international developments that have profoundly affected the destinies of nations and humanity. The emergence of American unipolarism, the horrific ...

Internet Freedom of Speech and Censorship

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

The United States, a bastion of democracy to the world, has long recognized the importance of freedom of expression to safeguard democracy and grow as a nation. It is a right enshrined in the very fi ...

Intersectionality Approach in the ISPP Sphere

Example essay. Published: 27th Oct 2021

Public policy administrators often deal with balancing the mandate of solving policy issues and making these policies come to life amidst the contextual complexities of the constituencies where they are to implement them. ...

Irish Legislation and the Role of Door Security Personnel

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Introduction Door Security falls under the Guarding Security Service sector as part of the new licensing requirements per the Private Security Authority. In the past, door security was a ...

Issue of Horse Slaughter: Causes and Interventions

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

 Horse slaughter is an appalling way by which people get rid of their horses for-profit and in a quick removal. Most often horses that suffer are equines with medical illness or deformed app ...

Issue of Paid Family Leave in the US

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Expecting parents in America struggle to cope with temporarily losing an income and the possibility of unemployment on top of taking care of a newborn. ...