Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures v
4. List on contributors vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Current developments
7. Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009 13
8. Children’s social care under New Labour 31
9. Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? 51
10. Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts¹ 71
11. Minimum income standards and household budgets 97
12. Current issues and debates
13. Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis 121
14. Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis 149
15. ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK 173
16. Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy 199
17. Service user involvement
18. Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses 227
19. Participation and social justice 253
20. Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities 275
21. Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people’s ‘well-being’ through participatory action research 291
22. Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? 317
23. Index 337