Social Policy Review 30
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2018
Edited by Catherine Needham, Elke Heins and James Rees
ISBN
978-1447349990Dimensions
216 x 138 mmImprint
Policy Press
Social Policy Review 30
This edition brings together specially commissioned reviews of key areas of social policy and considers a range of current issues within the field.
The book contains invaluable research, including discussions on modern slavery, childcare and social justice and welfare chauvinism, as well as a chapter centred on the Grenfell Tower fire. Bringing together the insights of a diverse group of experts in social policy, this book examines critical debates in the field in order to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Catherine Needham is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management in the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on new approaches to public service workforce development, as well as social care and policy innovation.
James Rees is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership in the Open University Business School. His research focuses on the third sector, public service delivery and reform, as well as leadership, governance and citizen involvement.
Elke Heins is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Part 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.
