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Three Renewal or relocation? Social welfare, voluntarism and the city
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Abstract
This chapter explores how the UK voluntary sector is responding to the political drive to reposition its role in the planning and delivery of social welfare, and how this is manifest at local level. It presents case study material from the Scottish City of Glasgow, which illustrates the impacts of changing regeneration and social inclusion policies on the development of the voluntary sector over time. The case study indicates that while the UK voluntary sector may be facing similar challenges, such a polarised debate is perhaps too simplistic and needs to take account of the diversity of the sector both in terms of organisational size and variation in the development of subsectors within the voluntary sector. It is demonstrated that while the new localism and governance arrangements can create a dynamic mosaic of opportunities for voluntary organisations to develop services in spatially defined communities, they can also facilitate complex patterns of voluntary sector inclusion and exclusion that act to reinforce existing patterns of unevenness. This chapter also explores how changes in urban policy and the shift to local governance and partnership working is affecting local voluntary sector development.
Abstract
This chapter explores how the UK voluntary sector is responding to the political drive to reposition its role in the planning and delivery of social welfare, and how this is manifest at local level. It presents case study material from the Scottish City of Glasgow, which illustrates the impacts of changing regeneration and social inclusion policies on the development of the voluntary sector over time. The case study indicates that while the UK voluntary sector may be facing similar challenges, such a polarised debate is perhaps too simplistic and needs to take account of the diversity of the sector both in terms of organisational size and variation in the development of subsectors within the voluntary sector. It is demonstrated that while the new localism and governance arrangements can create a dynamic mosaic of opportunities for voluntary organisations to develop services in spatially defined communities, they can also facilitate complex patterns of voluntary sector inclusion and exclusion that act to reinforce existing patterns of unevenness. This chapter also explores how changes in urban policy and the shift to local governance and partnership working is affecting local voluntary sector development.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures, maps and plates v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Foreword: Beyond the shadow state? xii
- Contemporary landscapes of welfare: the ‘voluntary turn’? 1
- A ‘new institutional fix’? The ‘community turn’ and the changing role of the voluntary sector 15
- Renewal or relocation? Social welfare, voluntarism and the city 33
- Voluntarism and new forms of governance in rural communities 53
- New times, new relationships: mental health, primary care and public health in New Zealand 73
- Informal and voluntary care in Canada: caught in the Act? 91
- Competition, adaptation and resistance: (re)forming health organisations in New Zealand’s third sector 115
- The difference of voluntarism: the place of voluntary sector care homes for older Jewish people in the United Kingdom 135
- Values, practices and strategic divestment: Christian social service organisations in New Zealand 153
- Faith-based organisations and welfare provision in Northern Ireland and North America: whose agenda? 173
- Government restructuring and settlement agencies in Vancouver: bringing advocacy back in 191
- Developing voluntary community spaces and Ethnicity in Sydney, Australia 209
- The voluntary spaces of charity shops: workplaces or domestic spaces? 231
- The changing landscape of voluntary sector counselling in Scotland 247
- Volunteering, geography and welfare: a multilevel investigation of geographical variations in voluntary action 267
- Reflections on landscapes of voluntarism 285
- Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures, maps and plates v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Foreword: Beyond the shadow state? xii
- Contemporary landscapes of welfare: the ‘voluntary turn’? 1
- A ‘new institutional fix’? The ‘community turn’ and the changing role of the voluntary sector 15
- Renewal or relocation? Social welfare, voluntarism and the city 33
- Voluntarism and new forms of governance in rural communities 53
- New times, new relationships: mental health, primary care and public health in New Zealand 73
- Informal and voluntary care in Canada: caught in the Act? 91
- Competition, adaptation and resistance: (re)forming health organisations in New Zealand’s third sector 115
- The difference of voluntarism: the place of voluntary sector care homes for older Jewish people in the United Kingdom 135
- Values, practices and strategic divestment: Christian social service organisations in New Zealand 153
- Faith-based organisations and welfare provision in Northern Ireland and North America: whose agenda? 173
- Government restructuring and settlement agencies in Vancouver: bringing advocacy back in 191
- Developing voluntary community spaces and Ethnicity in Sydney, Australia 209
- The voluntary spaces of charity shops: workplaces or domestic spaces? 231
- The changing landscape of voluntary sector counselling in Scotland 247
- Volunteering, geography and welfare: a multilevel investigation of geographical variations in voluntary action 267
- Reflections on landscapes of voluntarism 285
- Index 295
