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This popular student guide to social policy has now been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. A website is now available to complement this text at www.blackwellpublishing.com/socialpolicy Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of social policy. Designed to support students of social policy throughout their studies. Written by a distinguished team of contributors. Now updated to take account of recent developments in the field. Expanded to cover additional topics. Can be used alongside 'The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy' by the same editors.

Contributors

ix

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgements

xviii

Introduction

xix

Part I What Is Social Policy?

1

(30)

I.1 The Subject of Social Policy

3

(8)

Pete Alcock

I.2 The Approaches and Methods of Social Policy

11

(6)

Angus Erskine

I.3 The Role of Comparative Study

17

(8)

Margaret May

I.4. History and Social Policy

25

(6)

David Gladstone

Part II Values and Perspectives

31

(142)

Key Concepts

II.1 Social Needs, Social Problems and Social Welfare

35

(7)

Nick Manning

II.2 Equality, Rights and Social Justice

42

(6)

Peter Taylor-Gooby

II.3 Efficiency, Equity and Choice

48

(7)

Carol Propper

II.4 Altruism, Reciprocity and Obligation

55

(8)

Hilary Land

II.5 Divisions, Difference and Exclusion

63

(8)

Pete Alcock and Angus Erskine

Key Perspectives

II.6 The Neo-liberal Perspective

71

(7)

David G. Green

II.7 The Conservative Tradition of Social Welfare

78

(7)

Robert Pinker

II.8 The Social Democratic Perspective

85

(7)

Michael Sullivan

II.9 The Socialist Perspective

92

(8)

Norman Ginsburg

II.10 The Third Way

100

(7)

Martin Powell

II.11 Feminist Perspectives

107

(6)

Jane Lewis

II.12 'Race' and Social Welfare

113

(8)

Wagar Ahmad and Gary Craig

II.13 The Green Perspective

121

(6)

Michael Cahill

II.14 Postmodernism and New Directions

127

(10)

Tony Fitzpatrick

The Social Policy Context

II.15 Social Policy and Economic Policy

137

(9)

Ian Gough

II.16 Social Policy: Culture and Nationhood

146

(7)

Fiona Williams

II.17 Social Policy and Family Policy

153

(7)

Jane Millar

II.18 Social Policy and Globalization

160

(7)

Rob Sykes

II.19 Social Policy and the Political Process

167

(10)

Michael Hill

Part III The Production, Organization and Consumption of Welfare

173

(112)

The Production of Welfare

III.1 State Welfare

177

(7)

Norman Johnson

III.2 Private Welfare

184

(7)

Edward Brunsdon

III.3 The Voluntary Sector

191

(9)

Nicholas Deakin

III.4 Informal Welfare

200

(9)

Clare Ungerson

The Organization of Welfare

III.5 Managing and Delivering Welfare

209

(8)

John Clarke

III.6 The Governance of Local Welfare

217

(8)

Allan Cochrane

III.7 Social Policy within the United Kingdom

225

(9)

Richard Parry

III.8 Social Policy and the European Union

234

(7)

Linda Hantrais

III.9 Supranational Agencies and Social Policy

241

(12)

Bob Deacon

The Consumption of Welfare

III.10 Paying for Welfare

253

(7)

Howard Glennerster

III.11 Principles of Welfare

260

(7)

Ruth Lister

III.12 The Distribution of Welfare

267

(9)

John Hills

III.13 Accountability for Welfare

276

(13)

Janet Newman

Part IV Issues in Social Policy

285

(100)

Social Policy and Particular Groups

IV.1 Children

289

(7)

Malcolm Hill

IV.2 Young People

296

(7)

Bob Coles

IV.3 Older People

303

(9)

Alan Walker and Tony Maltby

IV.4 Disabled People

312

(6)

Mike Oliver

IV.5 Lone Parents

318

(7)

Jonathan Bradshaw

IV.6 Migrants

325

(10)

Gail Lewis

Service-based Issues

IV.7 Income Protection and Social Security

335

(7)

Stephen McKay and Karen Rowlingson

IV.8 Employment

342

(6)

Alan Deacon

IV.9 Health Care

348

(7)

Judith Allsop

IV.10 Education

355

(7)

Miriam David

IV.11 Housing

362

(8)

Alan Murie

IV.12 The Personal Social Services and Community Care

370

(8)

John Baldock

IV.13 Criminal Justice

378

(11)

Dee Cook

Part V Resources

385

(66)

Studying Social Policy

V.1 Doing Projects in Social Policy

389

(6)

Hartley Dean

V.2 Fieldwork Placements and the Social Policy Curriculum

395

(12)

Duncan Scott

Learning Resources

V.3 Guide to the Literature

407

(10)

Robert M. Page

V.4 Data Sources in the UK: National, Central and Local Government

417

(11)

Fran Wasoff

V.5 Other Sources of UK Data

428

(8)

Fran Bennett

V.6 European and International Data Sources

436

(7)

Deborah Mabbett

V.7 The Internet and Web-based Sources

443

(10)

Melanie Ashford and Pat Young

Part VI Careers in Social Policy

451

(17)

VI.1 Careers and Postgraduate Study in Social Policy

453

(15)

Margaret May and Catherine Bochel

Appendix: the Social Policy Association (SPA)

468

(1)

Index

469

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