Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures v
4. List of contributors vii
5. Overview 1
6. Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on
7. Freedom from want: 60 years on 11
8. Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state 29
9. Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 49
10. Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? 67
11. Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state 87
12. The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on 109
13. Contemporary childcare policy
14. Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues 133
15. Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes 167
16. Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model 197
17. Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden 215
18. Rescaling social policy
19. Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy 245
20. Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare 267
21. Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe 283
22. Index 307