Social Policy Review

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2016

Menno Fenger, John Hudson, Catherine Needham, Fenger, Menno, Hudson, John, Menno Fenger, John Hudson, Catherine Needham

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781447331797
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447331803
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Drawing together a mix of internationally renown contributors, Social Policy Review 28 provides an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship.

With specially commissioned reviews of pensions, health care, conditionality and housing this book examines important debates in the field. A themed section on personalised budgets examines the introduction and consequences of personalisation of funding from the perspectives of the UK, Australia and Norway and considers the impact of such funding on vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the homeless.

Published in association with the SPA this comprehensive discussion and analysis of the current state of social policy will be of keen interest to academics and students.

Table of contents

• SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 28
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Part One. Continuities and change in UK social policy
• 1. Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy
• 2. Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS?
• 3. Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state
• 4. Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond
• Part Two . Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
• 5. ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction?
• 6. Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality
• 7. The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state?
• 8. What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care
• Part Three. Individualised budgets in social policy
• 9. Social insurance for individualised disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• 10. Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets
• 11. Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes
• 12. Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production
• 13. Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care
• Index