All our welfare : towards participatory social policy / Peter Beresford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beresford, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Great Britain.

Welfare state.

Public welfare--Social aspects.

Public welfare.

Great Britain--Social policy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 445 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford demonstrate the value of 'user knowledge' by challenging orthodox social policy and the limitations of both Fabian and Neo-liberal perspectives drawing on service users' own ideas and experience.

Contents:

14. Supporting each other in the future

Rethinking public services

Transforming occupational and professional education and training

Public service practice

The 'gap-mending' approach

New forms of collective services and peer support/assistance

New organisational forms

The economics of social policy

Economic policy for social well-being

Conclusion

15. Changing welfare

Theoretical approaches to change

Models of change

Our relation with change

Towards inclusive participation for change

Humanising and democratising change

Afterword. The future: a different way forward?

The need to renew social policy

A new paradigm

Revaluing our welfare

Reflecting on myself

All our children

From baby Timothy to baby Isobel

Appedix One. The family

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Sample letter/email

Appendix 2. Research projects and related publications

Vagrancy and single homelessness

Public participation in land-use planning

Children in care in North Battersea

Patch-based social services

Service user and citizen involvement

Involving poor people in poverty analysis and research

The citizens' commission on the future of the welfare state

Leonard Cheshire empowerment project

Researching with disabled people

Service user networking and knowledge

Advancing user involvement in and user-controlled research

Palliative care

Person-centred support: The standards we expect

Involving older people

Beyond the usual suspects

Towards a social model of madness and distress

Developing service user knowledge

First-hand experience

References

Index.

8. What's wrong with social policy?

The new science of social policy

The social policy trinity

Key social policy case studies

Traditional tensions in social policy

The Fabian legacy

The importance of Peter Townsend

Eugenics and the reliance on 'science'

The scientism of the right

The real meaning of choice

Reinforcing division

Social policy and direct voices

Part Two. The way to the future

9. The beginnings of something different

Accessing people's views, people's histories

The emergence of service user movements

Breaking the social policy tradition

10. A new set of principles for social policy

Why poor treatment?

A different set of principles

Speaking for ourselves

Self-organisation and collective action

Social approaches

Being rights-based

Independent living

Living in the mainstream

11. Reconceiving research

Leonard Cheshire, disability research and the disabled people's movement

A new approach to research

From 'experts' to experiential knowledge

Barriers in the way of service user research and knowledge

The discriminatory effects of exclusion

A new basis for social policy knowledge

12. A new approach to social policy

Economic decline, the British motorcycle industry and revitalisation

Organising around enthusiasms

Diversity and involvement

Workplace developments

Lucas Aerospace

Collaborative working

Beyond the fragments

Real alternatives

Liberatory rhetoric: reactionary policy

13. Welfare policy for the twenty-first century

Principles for welfare

Processes for welfare production

Getting services and support

Reaching the starting line

The service journey

Social policies for the future

Conclusion.

ALL OUR WELFARE

Contents

List of photographs and sources

Foreword

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Owning not othering our welfare

Voices of experience

The structure of the book

Part One. The legacy of the past

1. Setting the scene for welfare and social policy

The bad-mouthing of welfare

Revisiting 'social policy'

A different approach to social policy narrative

The importance of narrative

2. The past

The legacy of the Poor Law

The principles of the Poor Law

Utilitarianism: the underpinning philosophy of social policy

The importance of fear

Fear of contamination

Social relations of Victorian poverty

The idea of the 'hard core pauper': a case study of the New Poor Law

Emerging contradictions

Increasing consensus against the poorest

3. The origins of the welfare state

The Great War

Inter-war depression

The Second World War

4. The welfare state and pressures from the war

What people wanted

What politicians and policymakers wanted

The Beveridge Report

The position of women

The persistence of division

Social and psychological disruption

5. The principles of the welfare state

Some key principles

Social citizenship

Decommodification

Why the centrality of the state?

The gap between principles and practice

6. The welfare state: whose consensus?

Political consensus?

Public consensus?

The welfare state and marginalised groups

7. Back to the past

Monetarism

New public management ideas

Financial and other redistribution through privatisation and outsourcing/contracting-out

A rhetoric of choice and consumerism

Globalisation

Trade union reform

Back to the future?

Inequality

Poverty

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

ISBN:

9781447328988

1447328981

9781447328971

1447328973

9781447320685

1447320689

OCLC:

935112465