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In the latest edition of Social Policy Review, experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year.
The book addresses current issues and critical debates within the field, with a particular focus on intergenerational research. Contributors also explore key social policy and research developments across a wide range of themes, including the impact of COVID-19 on eldercare and homelessness, research into Faith Based Organisations, local social services in Italy and social policies for Autistic adults in England and Wales.
Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this comprehensive volume will be essential reading for students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Contents
Global developments in social policy research - Ruggero Cefalo, Marcia Rose and Andy Jolly
Part 1: Intergenerational research
1. Intergenerational research, policy and practice for sustaining social care in the UK: current challenges and future aspirations - Lois Peach, Lena Sakure, Mirain Llwyd Roberts, Stephanie Green and Kate Howson
2. An intergenerational divide in the context of COVID-19? - Lizzie Ward and Stephanie Fleischer
3. Impacts of substance use across generations: exploring how the risk of problem substance use can be impacted by locus of control - Penelope Laycock
4. COVID-19 and intergenerational equity: can social protection initiatives transcend caste barriers in India? - Akanksha Sanil
5. Two levels of agency: the negotiation of intergenerational support in Chinese families - Jiaxin Liu
Part 2: Research developments in social policy analysis
6. The impact of COVID-19 on the residential care sector for the elderly: employment and care regimes in the European comparative perspective - Marco Arlotti and Stefano Neri
7. Curating Spaces of Hope: exploring the potential for Faith Based Organisations in uncertain times - Matthew Barber-Rowell
8. The 'Innovative Job Agency': an experiment in renewing local social services in Pisa (Italy) - Elena Vivaldi, Andrea Blasini and Federico Bruno
9. Inequality within equalities: an institutionalist examination of equalities interest groups engagement in a third sector-government partnership - Amy Sanders
Part 3: Policy developments
10. Homelessness and the coronavirus - Hilary Silver
11. A Cultural Political Economy case study of Singapore's Central Provident Fund: critiquing welfare policy in the reproduction of subordination and inequality - Eve Yeo and Joe Greener
12. Unmet need, epistemic injustice and early death: how social policy for Autistic adults in England and Wales fails to slay Beveridge's Five Giants - Aimee Grant, Gemma Williams, Kathryn Williams and Richard Woods
