Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009

Description

Social Policy Review provides readers invested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of interest during the past year. This year the Review uses the 60th anniversary of key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally.

Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling. Her research interests include gender, age and disability and social citizenship; welfare partnerships and governance; and citizenship, participation and access to services. Recent publications include 'Women and New Labour: Engendering policy and politics' (co-edited with C Annesley and F Gains, Policy Press, 2007). Ian Greener is Reader in Social Policy at Durham University. He has written widely about health policy and organisation in the UK. Chris Holden is Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a member of the Social Policy Association's executive committee and has published widely on globalisation, trade and health & social policy.

"An intriguing and sometimes challenging assessment of how Britain's welfare state has managed and mutated, and how is continuing to evolve, sixty years on." Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor, Financial Times