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All our welfare : towards participatory social policy / Peter Beresford [with a foreword by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beresford, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare state--Great Britain.
- Welfare state.
- Public welfare--Social aspects.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare&xGreat Britain--Political aspects.
- Public welfare&xGreat Britain.
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Great Britain.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 445 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford, champion of user involvement, offers a blueprint for a new participatory social policy. He controversially challenges orthodox social policy and the limitations of both Fabian and neoliberal perspectives in engaging people to improve their own welfare, including fascinating vignettes from his own family's experience. Filling a much-needed gap in the literature, this accessible text will provide a great introduction for students and a road-map for practitioners of an alternative vision for a future participatory and sustainable social policy. It will also command much wider interest from everyone concerned with how we look after each other in future in society. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The legacy of the past 11
- 1 Setting the scene for welfare and social policy 13
- 2 The past 29
- 3 The origins of the welfare state 49
- 4 The welfare state and pressures from the war 65
- 5 The principles of the welfare state 81
- 6 The welfare state: whose consensus? 99
- 7 Back to the past 119
- 8 What's wrong with social policy? 141
- Part 2 The way to the future 171
- 9 The beginnings of something different 173
- 10 A new set of principles for social policy 197
- 11 Reconceiving research 217
- 12 A new approach to social policy 235
- 13 Welfare policy for the twenty-first century 263
- 14 Supporting each other in the future 299
- 15 Changing welfare 333.
- ISBN:
- 9781447328940
- 1447328949
- OCLC:
- 942491936
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