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. |
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Page vii
... arguments over rationing, priority setting and limited resources are central to the forming of social policies. The fourth book, Unsettling Welfare, deals with the rise and fall of the welfare state in the UK, and traces the ways in ...
... arguments over rationing, priority setting and limited resources are central to the forming of social policies. The fourth book, Unsettling Welfare, deals with the rise and fall of the welfare state in the UK, and traces the ways in ...
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... arguments not only of each chapter, but also of each book and the series as a whole. The production of this book and the others that make up the series draws on the expertise of a whole range of people beyond its editors and authors ...
... arguments not only of each chapter, but also of each book and the series as a whole. The production of this book and the others that make up the series draws on the expertise of a whole range of people beyond its editors and authors ...
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... argued that, apart from some exceptional circumstances, the giants identified by Beveridge had been effectively vanquished in the years of post-war prosperity. From this perspective the radical 'rediscovery of poverty' was depicted as ...
... argued that, apart from some exceptional circumstances, the giants identified by Beveridge had been effectively vanquished in the years of post-war prosperity. From this perspective the radical 'rediscovery of poverty' was depicted as ...
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... arguments about the burden on a financially constrained state of meeting existing welfare demands. Ironically, as the ... argued that those incapable of earning an income (by reason of unemployment, sickness, disability, age) should ...
... arguments about the burden on a financially constrained state of meeting existing welfare demands. Ironically, as the ... argued that those incapable of earning an income (by reason of unemployment, sickness, disability, age) should ...
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... arguments against definitions of 'relative poverty'. How does he think poverty should be defined? Extract 1.1 Dennis: 'The poverty debate' Relative poverty A new, much more durable idea of poverty began to form [in the 1960s]. The ...
... arguments against definitions of 'relative poverty'. How does he think poverty should be defined? Extract 1.1 Dennis: 'The poverty debate' Relative poverty A new, much more durable idea of poverty began to form [in the 1960s]. The ...
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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