Understanding Social Policy or New Canadian Families

Understanding Social Policy

Author: Michael Hill

The seventh edition of Michael Hill's Understanding Social Policy updates his successful text to take into account policy innovations since Labour came to power in 1997 and to reflect the many ways in which the debate about social policy is changing.
A website is now available to complement this text at blackwellpublishing.com/socialpolicy

• Investigates current constitutional changes, such as devolution and the changing central/local relationship and their potential impact upon social policy.

• Places UK social policy in the wider context of the European Union, both by looking at the relevance of EU policies and by comparing the UK with other EU members.

• Focuses upon employment policies as both policies to be seen as closely linked to social security ones and as an influence on welfare in general.

• Examines contemporary developments in pensions policy.

• Looks at the many links between health policy and other policies.

• Explores the implications of social divisions - class, gender and ethnicity - for social policy outcomes.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Seventh Edition
1	What is Social Policy?	1
2	The History of Social Policy	13
3	The Making of Social Policy	48
4	Implementation	83
5	Social Security	102
6	Employment Policy	130
7	Health Policy	155
8	The Personal Social Services	180
9	Education	201
10	Housing	225
11	UK Social Policy in Comparative Perspective	245
12	Social Policy, Politics and Society	260
	References	281
	Index	294

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New Canadian Families

Author: David Cheal

This is a core text for second and third year university courses on the sociology of the family in Canada.