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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... receive welfare. As a consequence, it also examines the conditions by which people are excluded from welfare ... receiving welfare. Nevertheless, people do not intrinsically have either rights or needs. Nor are people intrinsically risky ...
... receive welfare. As a consequence, it also examines the conditions by which people are excluded from welfare ... receiving welfare. Nevertheless, people do not intrinsically have either rights or needs. Nor are people intrinsically risky ...
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... receive' services; others find themselves receiving forms of services that feel inappropriate, demeaning or even oppressive. This book explores a range of issues about the interrelationship of 'needs, rights and risks' and the provision ...
... receive' services; others find themselves receiving forms of services that feel inappropriate, demeaning or even oppressive. This book explores a range of issues about the interrelationship of 'needs, rights and risks' and the provision ...
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... receiving universal benefits based on insurance, the latter selective, means-tested payments. A moral component of the concept of need remains influential today: though people may have similar needs, some are considered more deserving ...
... receiving universal benefits based on insurance, the latter selective, means-tested payments. A moral component of the concept of need remains influential today: though people may have similar needs, some are considered more deserving ...
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... receiving 'selective' national assistance benefits ('undeserving') reflected the persistence of the moral outlook of the Poor Law into the post-war period. The fact that the numbers claiming national assistance benefits steadily ...
... receiving 'selective' national assistance benefits ('undeserving') reflected the persistence of the moral outlook of the Poor Law into the post-war period. The fact that the numbers claiming national assistance benefits steadily ...
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... receive an income determined, not by the minimum necessary to ensure subsistence, but by what was required to guarantee a decent standard of living according to the prevailing norms of society. (Source: The Observer, 25 August 1996) The ...
... receive an income determined, not by the minimum necessary to ensure subsistence, but by what was required to guarantee a decent standard of living according to the prevailing norms of society. (Source: The Observer, 25 August 1996) 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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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