British Social Policy Since 1945

by Glennerster, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780631220220
• ISBN10: 0631220224
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This is a new edition of one of the most widely used texts on the history of social policy. Covering the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, Howard Glennerster focuses on the 'Welfare State' to explore the myths that have shaped popular conceptions of social policy, and which continue to dominate current debates. The new edition includes:- an entirely new chapter on developments since the 1997 General Election.- completely updated and amended text, including greater coverage of the Thatcher period.- a new conclusion drawing out what is seen as a distinctively British social policy direction.- more cross-country comparisons.- a fully updated reference section.From the earliest days of the welfare state, to New Labour's reform commitments for the new century, Glennerster concludes that social policy can only ever be understood in the context of the political and economic concerns of the time.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	viii
General Editor's Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
The British Welfare State: Origins and Myths	1	(17)
Origins	1	(3)
The Basic Principles of the 1940s Welfare State	4	(3)
The Myths	7	(9)
A Re-evaluation	16	(2)
Beveridge: Founding Father?	18	(22)
Beveridge: the Man	19	(1)
The Ambition: a New Britain	20	(6)
The Report: Radical, but did it add up?	26	(7)
The Report's Main Proposals	33	(3)
The Rejection of Beveridge?	36	(1)
Family Allowances	37	(1)
An Unsound Foundation	38	(2)
The Right to Health, Knowledge, Food, Shelter and Work, 1945-51	40	(25)
Citizenship Rights?	40	(2)
A National Health Service Created	42	(7)
The New National Health Service	49	(1)
Education For All	50	(5)
The 1944 Education Act	55	(1)
Labour's Policy	55	(3)
Children	58	(1)
Food Rationing	59	(1)
Shelter	60	(2)
Jobs for All	62	(1)
Services for Citizens?	63	(2)
The New Conservatism and Social Policy, 1951-64	65	(74)
Back to the Drawing Board	66	(4)
Trying to Contain the Welfare State	70	(4)
Inflation and Full Employment, an Early Warning	74	(1)
Social Services: Wasted Years?	75	(12)
Conservative Achievements	87	(1)
Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76
the Poor and the Poorest	88	(1)
An Old Agenda	88	(1)
What is New?	89	(1)
Social Policy Moves Centre Stage	90	(5)
Reforming Beveridge	95	(2)
Labour Comes to Power	97	(5)
Conservatives Reverse Engines, 1970	102	(2)
Labour Tries Again	104	(1)
Child Poverty Again	105	(5)
Balance Sheet So Far	110	(2)
Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76
from Equal Access to Equality?	112	(1)
Health Care	112	(4)
Social Work	116	(3)
NHS Reform Again	119	(3)
Education and the Pursuit of Equality	122	(8)
Housing	130	(3)
Race Relations	133	(3)
Equal Pay	136	(3)
Morality, Family and the State: the Legacy of the Sixties	139	(14)
Homosexual Law Reform	141	(3)
Abortion	144	(1)
Divorce	145	(3)
Lone Parents	148	(2)
Domestic Violence	150	(3)
The Party Over, 1976-88	153	(22)
Labour 1976-9: Cuts and Fag Ends	161	(2)
Containment, Continuity and Tentative Change, 1979-88	163	(2)
Social Security Reform	165	(3)
SERPS	168	(3)
Housing Reform	171	(1)
Continuities	172	(3)
New Directions, 1988-97	175	(29)
A Radical Manifesto	176	(3)
Housing Choice	179	(2)
Standards in Education	181	(3)
Student Loans	184	(1)
A Poll Tax	185	(1)
Health Service Reform	186	(4)
Community Care	190	(2)
Another `Fundamental' Review	192	(1)
Taxation	193	(2)
Majorism	195	(1)
The State and the Family	195	(2)
Lone Mothers	197	(5)
Children	202	(1)
The End of an Era	203	(1)
New Labour: New Century	204	(27)
New Government	204	(1)
New Labour	205	(2)
New Economy?	207	(1)
New Spending Priorities	208	(1)
New Goals - Budgets and Redistribution	209	(1)
New Words - Social Exclusion	210	(1)
New Deal	210	(4)
New Pensions	214	(3)
A New NHS?	217	(1)
Long-Term Care: New Direction?	218	(2)
New Ways to Fund Higher Education	220	(1)
Schools and Pre-Schools - What's New?	221	(1)
New Communities	222	(2)
New Families	224	(2)
Old Century, New Century	226	(5)
Appendix: Social Policy Ministries and Ministers 1940-2000	231	(4)
Bibliography	235	(19)
Index	254