Welfare: Needs, Rights and RisksMary Langan Routledge, 2005 M10 27 - 352 pages Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare. |
Contents
CHAPTER 2 Rationing Health Care | 38 |
CHAPTER 3 Whose Needs Whose Resources? Accessing Social Care | 89 |
Who Decides? | 139 |
The Young Offender and Youth Justice Policy | 186 |
CHAPTER 6 Legitimate Membership of the Welfare Community | 231 |
CHAPTER 7 Review | 278 |
Acknowledgements | 292 |
Index | 294 |
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abuse ACTIVITY adults areas argued argument assessment Association authorities become benefit carers caring cent centres Chapter child Children Act 1989 concept concerned considered construction court criminal custody debate decisions defined definition demand Department dependent disabled discussion early effect evidence example experience Extract forms groups health service hospital increase individual institutions interests intervention involved issues justice labour living London look major means meeting mothers nature needs objective offenders Open organizations parents particular patients person political poor population position post-war poverty practice priority problems professional protection questions rationing receive referred relation relationships responsibility result risk role seen social social services society treatment underclass University welfare women workers young youth