Description
Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and expanded new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations as well as contemporary policy issues relating to health, education and welfare as well as the impact of Brexit.
Divided into four parts, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which social policy operates, before moving on to look at the historical development of the subject. The third section examines contemporary aspects of providing welfare, whilst the final part covers European and wider international developments. The text explores the major topics and areas in contemporary social policy, for example:
- work and welfare;
- education;
- adult health and social care;
- children and families;
- crime and criminal justice;
- health;
- housing;
- race;
- disability;
Table of Contents
1. Introducing Social Policy; Part 1: Context; 2. The Socio-economic Context of Social Policy; 3. The Politics and Governance of Social Policy; 4. Paying for the Welfare State and Taxation in the UK. 5. Devolution and Social Policy; 6. Research, Evidence and Social Policy; Part 2: The Development of Social Policy; 7. The Development of Social policy, 1800–1945; 8. Conservative Governments and the Welfare State since 1945; 9. Labour Governments and the Welfare State since 1945; Part 3: Themes and Issues; 10. Income Maintenance, Taxation, Pensions; 11. Employment and Labour Market Reforms: Towards a Residual Safety Net? 12. Education; 13. Adult Health and Social Care; 14. Social Policy and Class; 15. Children and Families; 16. Youth Justice: Changing Institutions, Changing Contexts; 17. Health Policy; 18. Housing Policy; 19. 'Race', Ethnicity and Social Policy; 20. Gender and Social Policy; 21. Disability and Social Policy; Part 4: European and International Developments; 22. The European Union and Social Policy; 23. Globalisation and Social Policy; 24. Conclusions
