No 15: Universal Credit, means-testing and social security
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 […]
Month: January 2018
No 14: Regional social policy: an idea whose time has come
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 […]
No 13: Beneficent expert or turbulent priest? The ambiguous role of the Social Policy academic
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 […]
No 12: The neglect of ageing
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 […]
No 11: Why welfare is a common good
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 […]
The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions: 2016
Teaching and Learning Report 2016