This book offers comprehensive coverage of Standard Grade Syllabus Area 2 and provides a significant amount of content overlap with the Intermediate 2 Study Theme Health and Wealth. Attractively designed and illustrated in full colour, it includes up-to-date information and analysis of the Labour Government's social policies, and examines in detail the topics of Crime and Law in Society, Equality in Society and all other appropriate areas for students working at either General or Credit level at Standard Grade or at Intermediate 2.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hodder Education .

Paul Creaney and Graeme Pont are both Principal Teachers at Scottish secondary schools.

This book has the following chapters: 1 Elderly People in the UK 2 The Needs of Elderly People: Housing and Health 3 Differences in Wealth, Status and Life Chances 4 Who Can Help to Meet the Needs of Elderly People? 5 Unemployment: the Problem and its Causes 6 Meeting the Needs of Unemployed People 7 New Technology and Employment 8 Family Life Today 9 Making Ends Meet 10 Poverty: Causes and Consequences 11 Health and Society 12 Crime and Law in Society