With new devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this book makes a comprehensive assessment of the impact of devolution on social policy. It provides a study of developments in the major areas of social policy and a full comparison between Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. To what extent is it valid to speak of agendas for government driven by social policy? With new governments in each country, has a fresh dynamic been given to the emergence of distinct social policies?
"The impact of devolution on social policy" uses a framework of analysis based on the nature and scope of social policies, ranging from major innovations and policy distinctiveness, to differences in implementation, policy convergence and areas of overlap with UK policies. This framework facilitates an integrated analysis and comparison of social policy developments and outcomes between the four UK nations. An assessment is also made of the ideas and values which have driven the direction of social policy under devolution.
With devolution becoming increasingly important in the study of social policy, the book will be of key interest to academics and students in social policy, public policy and politics, and will also be a valuable resource for practitioners involved in policy making.
Most of the expansive literature on social citizenship follows its leading thinker, T. H. Marshall, and talks only about the British state, often referring only to England. But social citizenship rights require taxation, spending, effective public services and politics committed to them. They can only be as strong as politics makes them. That means that the distinctive territorial politics of the UK are reshaping citizenship rights as they reshape policies, obligations and finance across the UK.
This timely book explores how changing territorial politics are impacting on social citizenship rights across the UK. The contributors contend that whilst territorial politics have always been major influences in the meaning and scope of social citizenship rights, devolved politics are now increasingly producing different social citizenship rights in different parts of the UK. Moreover, they are doing it in ways that few scholars or policymakers expect or can trace.
Drawing on extensive research over the last 10 years, the book brings together leading scholars of devolution and citizenship to chart the connection between the politics of devolution and the meaning of social citizenship in the UK. The first part of the book connects the large, and largely distinct, literatures on citizenship, devolution and the welfare state. The empirical second part identifies the different issues that will shape the future territorial politics of citizenship in the UK: intergovernmental relations and finance; policy divergence; bureaucratic politics; public opinion; and the European Union. It will be welcomed by academics and students in social policy, public policy, citizenship studies, politics and political science.
Introduction Globalisation and devolution create twin pressures on the notion of an English social contract. The former draws our attention to a range of processes that extend beyond the boundary and direct control of nation states, and the latter to powers, organisations and identities at a smaller scale of analysis, which are significant given the spatial disparities in social outcomes at the regional and local levels. The next chapter focuses in more detail on the spatial implications for social policy at the regional and local levels. In this chapter
89 5 Devolution and localism: metropolitan authorities Paul Dennett and Jacquie Russell Introduction Public services, nationally and locally, face an unprecedented set of financial pressures, as well as challenges to quality, performance and persistently poor population health outcomes. In April 2016, Greater Manchester (GM) signed an historic devolution deal with central government. Through this deal, GM became the first, and still only, city region with health and care devolution. Decisions about how to deliver greater, faster improvements to the health
233 NINE Devolution: where is the difference? Before devolution in 1999, Scotland and Wales were constitutionally subject to the same housing regimes, but in Scotland, there were marked variations in housing outcomes when compared to England, the consequences of political struggles and ‘the ways in which legislation was applied [that] reflected the activities of a distinctive Scottish bureaucracy which was a product of the wider Scottish civil society’ (Murie, 2004, p 20). Northern Ireland had much more ‘de jure’ autonomy via Stormont, the Northern
45 THREE Rural governance, devolution and policy delivery Mark Goodwin Introduction This chapter examines the institutions and structures through which rural policy is devised and delivered at national, regional and local scales. The institutional map of rural policy forged through three successive New Labour governments is markedly different from that which they inherited from the Conservatives in 1997. Perhaps this is not surprising, for as Jamie Peck (2001, p 449) has reminded us the state is, after all, a “political process in motion”. As new
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In recent years, the ‘city region’ has seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial centre of governance for economic and social development.
Rich in case study insights, this book provides a critique of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes the political, economic, social and cultural geographies of devolution. Reviewing the Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Swansea Bay City Regions, Cardiff Capital Region and the North Wales Growth Deal, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.
Based on original empirical material, situated within cutting edge academic and policy debates, this book is a timely and lively engagement with the shifting geographies of economic and social development in Britain.
509 Policy & Politics vol 38 no 4 • 509-29 (2010) • 10.1332/030557310X501802 © The Policy Press, 2010 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: health • devolution • intergovernmental relations • professions Final submission February 2010 • Acceptance February 2010 Intergovernmental relations and health in Great Britain after devolution Scott L. Greer1 and Alan Trench Political devolution allowed policy divergence around the UK. But England, Scotland and Wales must coexist within the UK, which means that the overarching rules of devolution shape their policy options
251 Policy & Politics • vol 45 • no 2 • 251–69 • © Policy Press 2017 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14895974141213 Accepted for publication 10 February 2017 • First published online 20 March 2017 article Citizen participation and changing governance: cases of devolution in England Brenton Prosser, b.prosser@sheffield.ac.uk University of Sheffield, UK/Australian National University, Australia Alan Renwick, a.renwick@ucl.ac.uk University College London, UK Arianna Giovannini, arianna
365 19 Devolution and the health of Scottish housing policy Isobel Anderson Introduction: housing in the Scottish parliament Following the 1997 referendum, Scotland has had its own parliament since July 1999. The Scotland Act 1998, which established the parliament, specified those matters that would remain reserved powers of the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament, and devolved all remaining matters to the new Scottish Parliament. Housing, health, social care, education, most local authority services and civil law were fully devolved to the Scottish Parliament
