Social Work Services in Schools covers broad school social work service issues, including education and development, effects of educational policy on practice, and planning, implementation, and evaluation. The editor, Paula Allen-Meares, is the Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is a well-known expert on child welfare and working with children in the school system. This book presents aspects of child, family, school and community social work in a comprehensive manner that includes material that all social work and child welfare professionals need, such as the effects of welfare reform on children and their families or diversity and its effects on social work practice in schools.