Paying for Health, Education, and Housing How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

by Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John; Travers, Tony; Hendry, Ross

• ISBN13: 9780199240784
• ISBN10: 0199240787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. This book reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about such issues. It then traces the way governments have distributed resources from the end of the last century until today. It critically analyses current methods for three services--the National Health Service, schools, and housing.

Table of Contents

Introducing and Analysing Formula Funding

Introduction

Political principles and economic theories

Needs-based funding from the nineteenth century to the 1980s

Funding in the NHS: Life after RAWP

Formula Funding in the 1990s

The Development of education needs formulae

Allocating social housing subsidies

Three services, eight formulae: Common themes and differences

The View from the Ground

Shared values: Views from within the NHS

Central and local views of the education funding system

Struggling to identify objectives: Local authority housing

A runaway train? Housing associations

The Overall Pattern

Common Patterns

Here to now

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