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Book SynopsisThis book examines critical debates in social policy, including discussions on modern slavery, welfare chauvinism and the Grenfell Tower fire, to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Developments in Social Policy ~ edited by Catherine Needham; Grenfell foretold: a very neoliberal tragedy ~ Stuart Hodkinson; Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: an incoherent response ~ Gary Craig; Childcare, life chances and social justice ~ Gideon Calder; Outcomes-based approaches and the devolved administrations ~ Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray; Part 2: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2017 ~ edited by Elke Heins; Fiscal welfare and its contribution to inequality ~ Adrian Sinfield; `Good solid Conservatism’: Theresa May’s ‘doctrine’ and her approach to the welfare state’ ~ Robert Page; Making markets in employment support: does the variety of quasi-market matter for people with disabilities and health conditions? ~ Eleanor Carter; Social policy and populism: welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship ~ Markus Ketola and Johan Nordensvard; What is impact? Learning from examples across the professional life-course ~ Tina Haux; Part 3: Excavating social policy lessons from the New Labour era ~ edited by James Rees; Regeneration redux? What (if anything) can we learn from New Labour? ~ Ruth Lupton and Richard Crisp; Back to the future of community cohesion? Learning from New Labour ~ Matthew Donoghue; Learning from New Labour’s approach to the NHS ~ Ian Greener; New Labour and adolescent social exclusion: a retrospective ~ Rikki Dean and Moira Wallace.
