Understanding Social Security
Issues for Policy and Practice
Published on 18. June 2003
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-86134-420-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reform of social security and tax is at the heart of the UK government's vision to combat social exclusion, eradicate child poverty and move people into employment. Since 1997 there have been major changes in policy and administration, directly affecting the lives of millions of people and raising important issues of equity and social justice. This introductory text provides students across a range of disciplines with an up to date critical analysis of these changes and their impact. It covers both social security policy and practice and addresses key issues such as: tax credits; welfare-to-work; cash and care; fraud; asylum seekers and ethnic minorities; disability; the pledge to end child poverty; and pensions. It also analyses the impact of supra-national bodies, family change, information technology and organisational change.
Reviews / Votes
"This first-class text provides students with the most up-to-date review and analysis of social security issues. It will fast become the definitive guide to the subject." Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of YorkMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9figs.15tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 172 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86134-420-5 (9781861344205)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
02/2009
2nd Edition
Policy Press
€112.85
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Person
Jane Millar is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy. She has extensive research experience in social security. She has also been Director of the Department for Work and Pension's annual Summer School for many years.
Content
Part One: Changing contexts; Introduction Jane Millar; From benefits to tax credits: changing policy and practice in income maintenance policy and practice Jane Millar; From the cradle to the grave? Social security over the life cycle Karen Rowlingson; Words count too: the new discourse of social policy making in the UK Theodoros Papadopoulous and Emma Carmel; Social security in global context Nicola Yeates; Part Two: Changing goals; Introduction Jane Millar; Welfare to work Alex Bryson; Cash versus care: providing real security for those who cannot work Saul Becker; Disability, capability and social exclusion Tania Burchardt; Benefiting children? The challenge of childhood poverty Tess Ridge; Reforming pensions: investing in the future Stephen McKay; Part Three: Changing delivery; The customer and service delivery Bruce Stafford; Implementation: social security from a street-level bureaucracy perspective Sharon Wright; Social security in a multi-ethnic society Lucinda Platt; Tackling social security fraud Roy Sainsbury; Wired-up welfare: the impact of technology on social security Karen Kellard; Conclusions Jane Millar.