This chapter is concerned with the consequence of changes to later life health and social policy. It states that health and social policies have gone through considerable transformation since the early 1980s, which is especially true with respect to later life. The chapter then charts the major changes and challenges to policy from the post-war era up to the present. The chapter also considers the implications of the rise of the citizen consumer with regard to health and social care provision.
265 GP commissioning: implications for the third sector Helen Dickinson1 and Robin Miller The reforms proposed in the 2010 UK National Health Service (NHS) White Paper hold the potential for major changes to the landscape of the NHS. Although the third sector is not mentioned very much in this document, the implications for the sector are significant. This paper sets out the recent history of NHS reform and the detail of the changes before outlining some of the potential implications of these changes for the third sector. Introduction The publication of
4 THE BRITISH WELFARE STATE: Thatcherism's enduring legacy Paul Wilding The 1980s were the decade of Thatcherism. They were years when major changes were made, and attempted, in public and social policies. They were also years dominated by the ideology to which Mrs Thatcher gave her name. This paper is an exercise in analysis and prophecy. It attempts to antici- pate the probable enduring impact of Thatcherism on the British welfare state and foresees ten enduring legacies. Much has been written about Thatcherism' and the British welfare state. There have been
major change. Mr Commissioner Jacobs, during an important speech to the Social Security Law Practitioners’ Association in 2004, responded to complaints about the behaviour of tribunal chairs. He commented that there may be some who are, as he put it, ‘inflexible ... insensitive ... [or] megalomaniacs’, but that they are ‘a minority’ (Jacobs, 2004). At a workshop held in Greater Manchester last year, 33 welfare rights officers addressed the question of difficult appeals. A wide range of concerns about the behaviour of some tribunal chair people, and other tribunal
21 TWO Patterns of household and family formation John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi During the past 25 years, two major changes have occurred in the patterns of household and family formation (as identified in the Introduction). Marriage and childbearing are occurring increasingly later in people’s lives, and there has been a dramatic increase in childbearing outside marriage. These two changes are likely to affect family life dramatically. The way in which men and women form and dissolve their families has direct consequences on the way in which they allocate
Rogowski’s second edition of this bestselling textbook responds to the major changes to social work practice since the first edition was published. It is fully revised and updated to include new material that is essential for students and practising social workers today.
Taking a critical perspective, Rogowski evaluates social work’s development, nature and rationale over approximately 150 years. He explores how neoliberalism is at the core of the profession’s crisis and calls for progressive, critical and radical changes to social work policy and practices based on social justice and social change.
This new edition is substantially updated to explore:
• the impact of austerity policies since 2010;
• failures to realise the progressive possibilities which followed the death of ‘Baby P’;
• contemporary examples of critical and radical practice.
It also includes a range of student-friendly features including chapter summaries, key learning and discussion points, and further reading.
This chapter introduces a “leader-centered theory of foreign policy change.” The theory seeks to account for the independent, systematic, and predictable effect of leaders in bringing about major changes in a country’s foreign policy, in the sense of broader redirections that entail multiple decisions spanning different issue areas. More specifically, the theory explores the possible effect of leaders on the “why,” the “what,” and the “how” of foreign policy change in terms of: the reasons due to which leaders try to fundamentally redirect their countries
another teacher as their ‘colleague’, to advisers in the local education authority and to experts in national government units or agencies, and in universities. There has been a strong tradition of experienced professionals relocating their employment from schools into local and/or national services, and into higher education, in order to develop and share expertise with the profession variously through advice, training and research. These sites of support have faced major changes. Government institutions and agencies A shift has taken place in the status and
Policy and Politics vol 25 no 3 SOME ANTECEDENTS TO HEALTHCARE REFORM: Israel and the United States Dr Yair Zalmanov;tch This article addresses the question of what enabled the passage of Israel's National Health Insurance Law in 1995, after decades of failed attempts, and tries to learn from this some of the reasons why United States President Clinton's health reform efforts foundered. It argues that in Israel reform was preceded by major changes in the society as a whole - in its values, in the power of the organised para-political opposition, and in the
, especially the unskilled). Although in all CEE countries state agencies responsible for youth do exist, youth policy is far from systematic. Instead of supporting young people in the most important transitions (school to work, forming one’s own household), in most CEE countries increasing family support is implicitly expected or even encouraged. The aim of this chapter is to present those major changes young people have been confronted with in Hungary and Slovenia since the beginning of the period of economic transformation. This issue will be examined in the broader
