Social Policy Review 20

by Maltby, Tony; Kennett, Patricia; Rummery, Kirstein

• ISBN13: 9781847420763
• ISBN10: 1847420761
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-11
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Summary

Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.

Table of Contents

List of tables and boxes
Introduction	p. 1
Current developments
A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training	p. 11
Planning for infrastructure and housing - is sustainable development a dream?	p. 35
Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK	p. 51
Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006-07	p. 69
Policy for older people in Wales	p. 93
Current debates
Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work-life balance in a low-income neighbourhood	p. 113
The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences	p. 133
The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem?	p. 151
Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate	p. 173
Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany - curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda	p. 191
Engendering policy and politics
Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model?	p. 215
A review of engendering policy in the EU	p. 241
Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings	p. 263
Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood	p. 279
Index	p. 297
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