Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Continuities and change in UK social policy
5. Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy 3
6. Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS? 23
7. Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state 41
8. Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond 63
9. Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
10. ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction? 89
11. Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality 105
12. The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state? 127
13. What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care 147
14. Individualised budgets in social policy
15. Social insurance for individualized disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) 173
16. Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets 191
17. Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes 211
18. Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production 233
19. Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care 251
20. Index 269