Six Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality
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Ruth Patrick
Abstract
Chapter 6 explores whether and how far benefit claimants can see a logic for changes to the benefits system. The interviews with out-of-work benefit claimants show that many were angered by the impacts of Cameron’s welfare reforms on their own lives but nonetheless were supportive of the government’s broad agenda. This underlines the depth of a ‘new moral consensus on welfare’ that problematizes out-of-work benefits and those who claim them. In such an environment, it is very difficult for individual claimants to make a positive case for ‘welfare’ in general terms which, in turn, helps further embed the Conservative’s welfare reform narrative.
Abstract
Chapter 6 explores whether and how far benefit claimants can see a logic for changes to the benefits system. The interviews with out-of-work benefit claimants show that many were angered by the impacts of Cameron’s welfare reforms on their own lives but nonetheless were supportive of the government’s broad agenda. This underlines the depth of a ‘new moral consensus on welfare’ that problematizes out-of-work benefits and those who claim them. In such an environment, it is very difficult for individual claimants to make a positive case for ‘welfare’ in general terms which, in turn, helps further embed the Conservative’s welfare reform narrative.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
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Continuities and change in UK social policy
- Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy 3
- Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS? 23
- Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state 41
- Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond 63
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Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
- ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction? 89
- Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality 105
- The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state? 127
- What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care 147
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Individualised budgets in social policy
- Social insurance for individualized disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) 173
- Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets 191
- Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes 211
- Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production 233
- Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care 251
- Index 269
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
-
Continuities and change in UK social policy
- Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy 3
- Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS? 23
- Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state 41
- Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond 63
-
Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
- ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction? 89
- Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality 105
- The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state? 127
- What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care 147
-
Individualised budgets in social policy
- Social insurance for individualized disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) 173
- Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets 191
- Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes 211
- Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production 233
- Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care 251
- Index 269
