Social Policy Review 30
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2018
Policy Press
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2018
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-4473-4999-0 (ISBN)
Description
This edition brings together specially commissioned reviews of key areas of social policy and considers a range of current issues within the field.
The book contains invaluable research, including discussions on modern slavery, childcare and social justice and welfare chauvinism, as well as a chapter centred on the Grenfell Tower fire. Bringing together the insights of a diverse group of experts in social policy, this book examines critical debates in the field in order to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
The book contains invaluable research, including discussions on modern slavery, childcare and social justice and welfare chauvinism, as well as a chapter centred on the Grenfell Tower fire. Bringing together the insights of a diverse group of experts in social policy, this book examines critical debates in the field in order to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-4999-0 (9781447349990)
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Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2018
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Persons
Ian Greener is Head of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. Tina Haux is Lecturer in Quantitative Social Policy and Director of the Q-step centre at the University of Kent. Markus Ketola is Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Adrian Sinfield is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Ann Marie Gray is Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University and Co-Director of ARK. Derek Birrell is Professor of Social Administration at Ulster University. Gary Craig is a Visiting Professor at the Law School, Newcastle University and at the University of York. He previously worked as a community development activist. He has researched and published widely in the fields of 'poverty, 'race' and ethnicity and modern slavery; He co-convenes the national network Modern Slavery Research Consortium. Catherine Needham is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management at the University of Birmingham. She is based at the Health Services Management Centre, developing research around social care and new approaches to public service workforce development. Elke Heins is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.
Content
Part 1: Developments in Social Policy ~ edited by Catherine Needham;
Grenfell foretold: a very neoliberal tragedy ~ Stuart Hodkinson;
Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: an incoherent response ~ Gary Craig;
Childcare, life chances and social justice ~ Gideon Calder;
Outcomes-based approaches and the devolved administrations ~ Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray;
Part 2: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2017 ~ edited by Elke Heins;
Fiscal welfare and its contribution to inequality ~ Adrian Sinfield;
`Good solid Conservatism': Theresa May's 'doctrine' and her approach to the welfare state' ~ Robert Page;
Making markets in employment support: does the variety of quasi-market matter for people with disabilities and health conditions? ~ Eleanor Carter;
Social policy and populism: welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship ~ Markus Ketola and Johan Nordensvard;
What is impact? Learning from examples across the professional life-course ~ Tina Haux;
Part 3: Excavating social policy lessons from the New Labour era ~ edited by James Rees;
Regeneration redux? What (if anything) can we learn from New Labour? ~ Ruth Lupton and Richard Crisp;
Back to the future of community cohesion? Learning from New Labour ~ Matthew Donoghue;
Learning from New Labour's approach to the NHS ~ Ian Greener;
New Labour and adolescent social exclusion: a retrospective ~ Rikki Dean and
Moira Wallace.
Grenfell foretold: a very neoliberal tragedy ~ Stuart Hodkinson;
Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: an incoherent response ~ Gary Craig;
Childcare, life chances and social justice ~ Gideon Calder;
Outcomes-based approaches and the devolved administrations ~ Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray;
Part 2: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2017 ~ edited by Elke Heins;
Fiscal welfare and its contribution to inequality ~ Adrian Sinfield;
`Good solid Conservatism': Theresa May's 'doctrine' and her approach to the welfare state' ~ Robert Page;
Making markets in employment support: does the variety of quasi-market matter for people with disabilities and health conditions? ~ Eleanor Carter;
Social policy and populism: welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship ~ Markus Ketola and Johan Nordensvard;
What is impact? Learning from examples across the professional life-course ~ Tina Haux;
Part 3: Excavating social policy lessons from the New Labour era ~ edited by James Rees;
Regeneration redux? What (if anything) can we learn from New Labour? ~ Ruth Lupton and Richard Crisp;
Back to the future of community cohesion? Learning from New Labour ~ Matthew Donoghue;
Learning from New Labour's approach to the NHS ~ Ian Greener;
New Labour and adolescent social exclusion: a retrospective ~ Rikki Dean and
Moira Wallace.