基本説明
Covering key issues in contemporary social policy.
Full Description
Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? How can we make social policy work? These are some of the questions discussed in this new and wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics.
The book covers key issues in contemporary social policy, particularly concentrating on recent changes. It examines the history and goals of social policy as well as its delivery, focusing in turn on the family and the state, schools, higher education, healthcare, social care, communities and housing. Redistribution is also examined, exploring child poverty, pension reform and resources for welfare.
The essays in this collection have been specially written to honour the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose pioneering work has been concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice. It is a collection of primary importance for those working in and interested in policy and politics in a wide variety of fields and for students of social policy, public policy and the public sector.
Contents
Introduction ‾ John Hills, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud; Part One: The aims of social policy: Principles, Poor Laws and welfare states ‾ Jose Harris; Welfare: what for? ‾ Tania Burchardt; Part Two: Delivering social policy: Families, individuals and the state ‾ Jane Lewis; Schools, financing and educational standards ‾ Anne West; Financing higher education: tax, graduate tax or loans? ‾ Nicholas Barr; Quasi-markets in healthcare ‾ Julian Le Grand; Social care: choice and control ‾ Martin Knapp; Neighbourhood renewal, mixed communities and social integration ‾ Anne Power; Part Three: Redistribution: between households; over time; between areas: The restructuring of redistribution ‾ David Piachaud; Pensions, public opinion and policy ‾ John Hills; Distributing resources ‾ Tony Travers.
