Transformational Moments in Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action?

Front Cover\nTransformational Moments in Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action?\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of figures and illustrations\nList of abbreviations\nAbout the authors\nPreface\nONE Transformational moments?\n	Introduction\n	Scope and definitions\n	Frontier and borderland: researching the mixed economy of welfare\n	Welfare and social policy reform in the 1930s and 1940s\n	Turning points and transformational moments, 1951–2010\n	The 2010s, social welfare and voluntary action\n	About this book\nTWO Researching voluntary action and welfare\n	Introduction\n	Approach\n	Data collection methods\n		Accessing relevant documents\n		Data preparation\n		Analysis\n	Theoretical lenses\n	Summary\nTHREE Positioning voluntary action in social welfare\n	Introduction\n	It is part of who we are: voluntary action, democracy and society\n		A broad consensus\n		Challenge versus consensus: differences between groups of actors\n		Undermined but needed more than ever: changes over time\n	It is part of what we do: voluntary action, service delivery and meeting need\n		Recognising the limits of voluntary action: concerns about form, quality and quantity\n		In search of distinctiveness: growing contestation\n	Summary\nFOUR Social welfare needs\n	Introduction\n	New and expanding needs: a point of connection across time\n		1940s: consensus on significance of unmet needs\n		2010s: recognition of growing levels of unmet need\n	Deserving and undeserving welfare recipients: an enduring narrative\n	Questions of blame: exposing differences across time and between actors\n	Questions of responsibility: from collective to individual responses\n	Summary\nFIVE Working together in a mixed economy of welfare\n	Introduction\n	The 1940s: a pragmatic partnership to overcome multiple failures\n		Pragmatic compromise and a strengthening of partnership\n		Negotiating roles in an evolving mixed economy of welfare\n		Support for a welfare mix that enabled choice and competition\n		A resultant pragmatic partnership and subsequent evolution\n	The 2010s: antagonistic collaboration in the context of state failure\n		Developing narratives of state failure\n		An expanded, or contracted, role for voluntary action?\n		Competition, choice and public service markets\n		Resultant antagonistic collaboration\n	Summary\nSIX Making room for voluntary action\n	Introduction\n	A new partnership with the state in the 1940s: the NOPWC and the National Assistance Act\n		The emergence of the NOPWC\n		Passing the National Assistance Act 1948\n		The NOPWC and field-shaping narratives\n	Navigating a decoupled relationship in the 2010s: reforming children’s services\n		Back to basics: positioning Children England\n		Constructing strategic voluntary sector narratives\n		A line in the sand: resisting the moving frontier\n	Summary\nSEVEN Challenging the moving frontier?\n	Introduction\n	Accounting for change\n	Variation and contestation\n	The work of narratives\n	COVID-19 and the emergence of a partnership of necessity?\n	Rethinking welfare futures\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover