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The Social Policy Association is a learned society and charity. Our purpose is to advance the teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of social policy, and to represent the interests of our members.  The aim of our blog is to:

  • increase the public understanding of social policy
  • facilitate the sharing and exchange of knowledge between experts within and outside universities;
  • open up academic research to increase its impact.

All blogs published on this website express the views of the authors, and not of the Social Policy Association.

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A new strategy of equality

September 7, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on A new strategy of equality

R.H. Tawney is the patron saint of Labour thinking on welfare.  More often cited than read, his chapter on ‘The Strategy of Equality’, first published in 1931, set the agenda for much that was to […]

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Wifely labour and the welfare state: a question of systematic discrimination?

August 16, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Wifely labour and the welfare state: a question of systematic discrimination?

Charles Booth, that great discoverer of urban poverty, inscribed the last volume of his Life and Labour of the People in London with the following words: ‘My work now completed has been from first to […]

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Heating up environmental debates: climate justice and social policy combined

May 10, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Heating up environmental debates: climate justice and social policy combined

The impacts of climate change have significant potential to heighten inequalities across society. As such, fundamental policy transformations are required to ensure just processes of adaptation and mitigation. However, while there is a good level […]

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The future of UK employment in a post-pandemic world

April 27, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on The future of UK employment in a post-pandemic world

UK employment has experienced a substantial crisis over the last year. Nonetheless, impact has varied by sector and place. Government interventions have been crucial in mitigating the worst impacts to date. However, as support tapers, […]

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The state of race: facilitating terror, harm, and inequality

April 22, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on The state of race: facilitating terror, harm, and inequality

What what n*****? Suspects’ racist taunting and fatal stabbing of Stephen Lawrence in London: 22 April 1993 I can’t breathe George Floyd before his death during police restraint in Minneapolis, US: 25 May 2020 More […]

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Building new foundations for the wobbly pillar of the welfare state

April 16, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Building new foundations for the wobbly pillar of the welfare state

Narratives of housing and social policy, particularly in the UK, tend to focus on the growth of state activity in the delivery of housing from 1945 to 1980. However, the last 40 years have seen […]

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Time for a new Beveridge Report?

March 25, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Time for a new Beveridge Report?

It has been 80 years since William Beveridge was commissioned to report on the ways that Britain should be rebuilt after the Second World War. As is well known, the resulting government White Paper ‘Social […]

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Supporting migrant children in lockdown: time for joined-up thinking

January 28, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Supporting migrant children in lockdown: time for joined-up thinking

As England moved into its third national lockdown, all primary and secondary schools had to once again close their gates to most pupils, making ‘distance learning’ the default option. These partial school closures are likely […]

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Welfare state development in post-neoliberal Latin America

January 21, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Welfare state development in post-neoliberal Latin America

Can we measure the degree of welfare state development in Latin America beyond the popular social expenditure or welfare generosity indicators? And why have some countries in the region developed more comprehensive welfare systems than […]

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Why this winter’s lockdown will be even tougher than the first for low income families

January 18, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Why this winter’s lockdown will be even tougher than the first for low income families

With the return to stricter measures including home schooling, the early 2021 lockdown will bring all the challenges to low income families that they experienced last Spring, but four factors will make it even harder […]

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