Implementing Innovative Social Investment

Strategic Lessons from Europe

Baines, Susan, Bassi, Andrea, Baines, Susan, Bassi, Andrea

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447347842
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood. This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing successes, challenges and setbacks of Social Investment policies and services from ten European countries: Italy, UK, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. It provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned. The book is informed throughout by engagement with service users and local communities, and features many previously unheard voices including front-line workers, local decision makers, volunteers and beneficiaries.

Table of contents

• IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIVE SOCIAL INVESTMENT
• Contents
• List of tables, figures, images and boxes
• viiNotes on contributors
• Acknowledgement
• 1. Social Investment in welfare: a sub-national perspective
• Part A: Children and families: early intervention in people’s life courses
• 2. Investing in the future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services system
• 3. Troubled Families in Greater Manchester
• 4. Innovative voluntary and public sector partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Part B: From a caring state to an investing state: labour market activation
• 5. The Youth Guarantee and One‑Stop Guidance Centres as a social innovation and a policy implementation tool in Finland
• 6. Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece
• 7. Network for the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Münster, Germany (MAMBA)
• 8. Labour market activation and empowerment of the homeless in Poland
• Part C: Social solidarity and Social Investment
• 9. The creation of a socially diverse neighbourhood in Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 10. Revitalising the self-sufficient household economy: the Social Land Programme in Hungary
• 11. Social Investment and the causes of energy poverty: are cooperatives a solution?
• 12. Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?
• Index