Social scientists analyze and evaluate British social policy, looking first at continuities and change and ending with individualized budgets in social policy. The middle section contains four selected papers from the Social Policy Association's 2015 annual conference, held in Ulster. Among the discussions there are exploring out-of-work benefit claimants' attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality, and what counts as counter-conduct: a government analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care. Other topics include whether coalition health policy is a game of two halves or the final whistle for the National Health Service, housing policy in the austerity age and beyond, personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes, and individualized funding for older people and the ethic of care. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Published in cooperation with the Social Policy Association, Social Policy Review is an annual volume that draws together international scholarship at the forefront of research on social policy. This edition provides a diverse overview of the best in social policy scholarship, with specially commissioned reviews of crucial pension, health care, conditionality, and housing debates. A themed section on personalized budgets examines the introduction and consequences of funding personalization in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Norway and considers the impact of such funding on vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the homeless.
