Synopses & Reviews
This 'new look' edition is designed to provide readers with up-to-date information about developments and changes in core UK social policy areas. Additional chapters provide in-depth analyses of topical issues in UK and international perspective, while the new themed section examines the changes that have taken place in UK welfare since the first Thatcher government came to power twenty-five years ago.Social Policy Review is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in 'welfare' in the widest sense of the term.
Synopsis
Social Policy Review 16 is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in welfare' in the widest sense of the term.
Synopsis
Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease of life and has been re-organised to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally.
About the Author
Nick Ellison, The School of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Leeds, Linda Bauld, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Glasgow and Martin Powell, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham
Table of Contents
Part One: Developments in UK social policy
Housing policy: coming in from the cold? ~ Brian Lund
The NHS in England: from modernisation to marketisation? ~ Judith Allsop and Rob Baggott
Developments in social security ~ Fran Bennett
The rise of the meritocracy? New Labour and education in the second term ~ Sally Tomlinson
The personal social services ~ Bill Jordan
Part Two: Social policy in the wider context
'Scottish solutions to Scottish problems'? Social welfare in Scotland since devolution ~ John Stewart
The primacy of ideology: social policy and the first term of the National Assembly for Wales ~ Paul Chaney and Mark Drakeford
Attlee versus Blair: Labour governments and progressive social policy in historical perspective ~ Robert M. Page
Christian democracy, social democracy and the continental 'welfare without work' syndrome ~ Kees van Kersbergen and Anton Hemerijck
Activation through thick and thin: progressive approaches to labour market activation ~ Jonah D. Levy
Part Three: Social policy since 1979 - the impact of Thatcherism
Social policy since 1979: a view from the right ~ David Marsland
Mrs Thatcher's legacy: getting it in perspective ~ Howard Glennerster
Privatisation, privatisation, privatisation: the British welfare state since 1979 ~ Hilary Land
Social policy since 1979: a view from the USA ~ Joseph White