Social policy review 22, Analysis and debate in social policy, 2010 /

Essential reading for academics and students in the field, <i>Social Policy Review 22: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2010</i> presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship, including an assessment of Labour's social policy after three ter...

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Other Authors: Greener, Ian (Editor), Holden, Chris (Editor), Kilkey, Majella (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2010
Series:Social policy series ; 22
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Education policy and policy making, 1997-2009
  • Children's social care under New Labour
  • Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems?
  • Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts
  • Minimum income standards and household budgets
  • Re-connecting with 'what unemployment means': employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis
  • Facing the 'dark side' of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis
  • 'Flexibility', xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK
  • Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala's social policy
  • Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses
  • Participation and social justice
  • Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities
  • Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people's 'well-being' through participatory action research
  • Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother?