Social policy review. 21, Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009

 Content: Freedom from want 60 years on / Michael Hill --
 Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state / Hilary Land --
 Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 / Ruth Lupton, Howard Glennerster --
 Beveridge's giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? / Martin Powell --
 Tackling squalor? Housing's contribution to the welfare state / Douglas Robertson, James Smyth --
 Poor Law Commission 1905/09: a view from a century on / John Offer --
 Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998/2007: patterns, trends and issues / Peter Selman. Family incomes as a protective factor for child outcomes / Ilan Katz, Gerry Redmond --
 Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default 'primary carer' model / Alexander Masardo --
 Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden / Gabrielle Meagher, Natasha Cortis, Karen Healy --
 Governing at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy / Andrew Wallace --
 Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare / Michael Keating --
 Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe / Paul Stubbs, Sinisa Zrinscak.
 Abstract:             
              Presents an overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally. This book examines historical and contemporary developments in policy tackling Beveridge's five evils of want, idleness, disease, squalor and ignorance, looking at how policy has changed since the aims and ideology of the inception of the post-war welfare state.                 Read more...