One Freedom from want: 60 years on
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Michael Hill
Abstract
This chapter looks at the issue of tackling want, 60 years on from the Beveridge’s reforms. It looks at the way in which the 1948 settlement was a compromised response to want, and the tensions of balancing the objectives of insurance-based and safety-net schemes. It highlights the ongoing tensions experienced by policy makers in trying to tackle want, particularly the impact of feminist and anti-poverty research in highlighting the contested and gendered nature of poverty. It points out how the debate has changed since the 1940s, and looks at contemporary developments in the light of those changes in discourse and policy.
Abstract
This chapter looks at the issue of tackling want, 60 years on from the Beveridge’s reforms. It looks at the way in which the 1948 settlement was a compromised response to want, and the tensions of balancing the objectives of insurance-based and safety-net schemes. It highlights the ongoing tensions experienced by policy makers in trying to tackle want, particularly the impact of feminist and anti-poverty research in highlighting the contested and gendered nature of poverty. It points out how the debate has changed since the 1940s, and looks at contemporary developments in the light of those changes in discourse and policy.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of contributors vii
- Overview 1
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Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on
- Freedom from want: 60 years on 11
- Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state 29
- Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 49
- Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? 67
- Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state 87
- The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on 109
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Contemporary childcare policy
- Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues 133
- Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes 167
- Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model 197
- Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden 215
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Rescaling social policy
- Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy 245
- Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare 267
- Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe 283
- Index 307
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of contributors vii
- Overview 1
-
Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on
- Freedom from want: 60 years on 11
- Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state 29
- Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 49
- Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? 67
- Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state 87
- The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on 109
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Contemporary childcare policy
- Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues 133
- Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes 167
- Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model 197
- Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden 215
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Rescaling social policy
- Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy 245
- Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare 267
- Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe 283
- Index 307
