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Social Policy Review provides readers invested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of interest during the past year. This year the Review uses the 60th anniversary of key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally.
List of contents
Introduction ~ Kirstein Rummery, Ian Greener and Chris Holden; Part one (Kirstein Rummery): Freedom from Want 60 years on ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Idleness: women's work and welfare ~ Hilary Land; Education ~ Ruth Lupton and Howard Glennerster; Disease ~ Martin Powell; Squalor: 60 years of housing policy ~ Isobel Anderson and Douglas Robertson; Poor Law Commission 1905-1909 ~ John Offer; Part two (Ian Greener): Inter-country adoption in Europe 1998-2006: patterns, trends and issues ~ Peter Selman; Wealth as a protective factor for child outcomes ~ Ilan Katz and Gerry Redmond; Childcare policy in Germany (1998-2005): construing the 'problem' of the incompatibility of paid employment and family care work ~ Cornelius Grebe; Managing shared residence ~ Alexander Masardo; Strategic challenges in child welfare services ~ Gabrielle Meagher, Natasha Cortis and Karen Healy; Part three: Rescaling social policy (Chris Holden): Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy ~ Andrew Wallace; Rescaling solidarity: the welfare state and the new regionalism ~ Michael Keating; Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe ~ Paul Stubbs; Regionalism and subsidiarity in the context of globalisation~ Walden Bello.
About the author
Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling. Her research interests include gender, age and disability and social citizenship; welfare partnerships and governance; and citizenship, participation and access to services. Recent publications include "Women and New Labour: Engendering policy and politics" (co-edited with C Annesley and F Gains, Policy Press, 2007).
Ian Greener is Reader in Social Policy at Durham University. He has written widely about health policy and organisation in the UK.
Chris Holden is Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a member of the Social Policy Association's executive committee and has published widely on globalisation, trade and health & social policy.
Summary
Social Policy Review provides readers invested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of interest during the past year. This year the Review uses the 60th anniversary of key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally.
