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Month: January 2018

The roll-out of Universal Credit means more people must rely on foodbanks to survive.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 15: Universal Credit, means-testing and social security

January 29, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 2

by Jane Millar Fifty years ago, in 1967, means-testing was just a small part of our social security system. Supplementary Benefit had been introduced in 1966 (replacing National Assistance) but was as much, if not […]

Policies and practices regarding malaria prevention are an area around which regional social policy in Africa has coalesced.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 14: Regional social policy: an idea whose time has come

January 22, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Nicola Yeates For those of us in ‘Brexit Britain’, it is sometimes easy to forget that the planned withdrawal of the UK from the EU is a countervailing global trend. Deeper regional cooperation and […]

British parliament is where the fruits of academic social policy should be found.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 13: Beneficent expert or turbulent priest? The ambiguous role of the Social Policy academic

January 15, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Hartley Dean The role of the Social Policy academic has in several respects always been ambiguous. The object of her scholarship may variously be regarded as a discrete discipline or as a multi- or […]

An elderly couple symbolise the process of ageing.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 12: The neglect of ageing

January 8, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Alan Walker Social policy has neglected ageing and, as a result, it has vacated what should have been a leading role in responding to one of the biggest challenges facing the world. This neglect […]

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50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 11: Why welfare is a common good

January 3, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Pete Alcock My summer reading this year included a new biography of Clement Attlee, leader of the post-war Labour administration generally credited with the introduction of the British welfare state — Citizen Clem by […]

SPA Reports

The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions: 2016

January 1, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions: 2016
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