Social Policy and Social Justice: The IPPR ReaderISBN: 978-0-7456-1939-2
Hardcover
328 pages
May 1998, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Social Policy and Social Justice brings together, for the
first time, the IPPR's influential work on family policy, health
rights and rationing, self help and community development and
citizens' juries. The authors address the issues and debates which
characterize today's changing policy-making agenda. What kind of
policies can encourage a stable and loving home environment for
children to grow into dependable adults? How can we encourage
initiatives to rejuvenate local communities from the bottom up? Can
a cash-limited NHS survive ever increasing demands on its services?
Why should we look for new ways to involve the public in decision
making? The IPPR's approach to policy making has influenced the new
Labour Government, elected in 1997. It is an approach that takes
account of the complexities of everyday life and develops
strategies for working with rather than against the tide of change;
with how people really live rather than how some people think they
should live.
Contributors include Adrienne Burgess, Ian Bynoe, Anna Coote, Dan
Corry, David Donnison, Ian Gough, Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt,
David J. Hunter, Jo Lenaghan, Tariq Modood, Raymond Plant, Sandy
Ruxton and Mai Wann.
This comprehensive social policy textbook is for students and
researchers of social policy and the politics of welfare, as well
as those working in health, housing, community, the voluntary
sector and local government. It offers a distinct democratic
liberal framework for policy making.