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Cover Making social policy work

Making social policy work

Essays in honour of Howard Glennerster

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Editors:
John Hills
,
Julian Le Grand
, and
David Piachaud

Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. This collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics asks what has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty, and what is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
31 Oct 2007
Online ISBN:
9781847422781
Series:
CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781847422781
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Front Matter
Front Matter
One: Introduction
Part One: The aims of social policy
Two: Principles, Poor Laws and welfare states
Three: Welfare: what for?
Part Two: Delivering social policy
Four: Families, individuals and the state
Five: Schools, financing and educational standards
Six: Financing higher education: tax, graduate tax or loans?
Seven: Quasi-markets in healthcare
Eight: Social care: choice and control
Nine: Neighbourhood renewal, mixed communities and social integration
Part Three: Redistribution: between households; over time; between areas
Ten: The restructuring of redistribution
Eleven: Pensions, public opinion and policy
Twelve: Distributing resources
Back Matter
Appendix: Bibliography of Howard Glennerster’s publications
Index

Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? How can we make social policy work? These are some of the questions discussed in this new and wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics.

The book covers key issues in contemporary social policy, particularly concentrating on recent changes. It examines the history and goals of social policy as well as its delivery, focusing in turn on the family and the state, schools, higher education, healthcare, social care, communities and housing. Redistribution is also examined, exploring child poverty, pension reform and resources for welfare.

The essays in this collection have been specially written to honour the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose pioneering work has been concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice. It is a collection of primary importance for those working in and interested in policy and politics in a wide variety of fields and for students of social policy, public policy and the public sector.

John Hills (1954-2020) was Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He wrote extensively on inequality, public policy and the welfare state. He was a member of the Pensions Commission and Chair of the National Equality Panel for the Labour government and led a review of the measurement of fuel poverty for the Coalition government. He was knighted in 2013 for services to the development of social policy.

Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2003 to 2005, he was Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street.

David Piachaud is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an associate of CASE. He was Social Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit (1974-79) and has been consultant to the European Commission, International Labour Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Health Organization.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© John Hills, Julian Le Grand, David Piachaud 2007
Hardback ISBN:
9781861349583
Paperback ISBN:
9781861349576
Online ISBN:
9781847422781
Page Extent:
296
Keywords:
social policy; poverty; social justice; family; schools; higher education; healthcare; social care; communities; housing
Global Social Challenges:
Democracy, Power and Governance, Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Subject:
Social and Public Policy, Social Policy
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