Social policy review. [electronic resource]
Maltby, Tony.
Rummery, Kirstein.
Kennett, Patricia,1959-
Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.  Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.  
Social Policy Review 20; Contents; List of tables and boxes; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Overview; 1. A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training; The central theme - Leitch; First days of the Brown premiership - new structures and holistic solutions; Comprehensive Spending Review and budgets for learning and skills; The emergence of an integrated employment and skills policy; Legislation; 2. Planning for infrastructure and housing - is sustainable development a dream?; 3. Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK
4. Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006-075. Policy for older people in Wales; 6. Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work-life balance in a low-income neighbourhood; 7. The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences; 8. The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem?; 9. Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate; 10. Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented,streamlined, but still on the agenda
11. Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model?12. A review of engendering policy in the EU; 13. Forming Australian families:gender ideologies and policy settings; 14. Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Jan 2022).
Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.  Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.  
Public welfare