Five Policy for older people in Wales
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Gill Windle
Abstract
Social policy concerning older people is an area of increasing importance. This chapter reviews progress in the innovative approach to using policy to improve older people’s lives: the Strategy for Older People in Wales. This broad, high-level policy development takes a holistic approach to older’s lives and places a great emphasis on engaging older people in the democratic process. This chapter outlines and reviews the implementation of this new approach in addressing population ageing. It draws some comparisons with the strategies of the devolved governments of Northern Ireland and Scotland. The chapter concludes with some of the learning from the Strategy for Older People, highlights some of its limitations and considers how further evaluation may be best taken forward.
Abstract
Social policy concerning older people is an area of increasing importance. This chapter reviews progress in the innovative approach to using policy to improve older people’s lives: the Strategy for Older People in Wales. This broad, high-level policy development takes a holistic approach to older’s lives and places a great emphasis on engaging older people in the democratic process. This chapter outlines and reviews the implementation of this new approach in addressing population ageing. It draws some comparisons with the strategies of the devolved governments of Northern Ireland and Scotland. The chapter concludes with some of the learning from the Strategy for Older People, highlights some of its limitations and considers how further evaluation may be best taken forward.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and boxes v
- List of abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction 1
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Current developments
- A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training 11
- Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream? 35
- Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK 51
- Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07 69
- Policy for older people in Wales 93
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Current debates
- Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood 113
- The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences 133
- The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? 151
- Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate 173
- Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda 191
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Engendering policy and politics
- Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? 215
- A review of engendering policy in the EU 241
- Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings 263
- Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood 279
- Index 297
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and boxes v
- List of abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction 1
-
Current developments
- A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training 11
- Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream? 35
- Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK 51
- Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07 69
- Policy for older people in Wales 93
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Current debates
- Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood 113
- The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences 133
- The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? 151
- Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate 173
- Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda 191
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Engendering policy and politics
- Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? 215
- A review of engendering policy in the EU 241
- Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings 263
- Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood 279
- Index 297
