Kirstein Rummery & Ian Greener 
Social Policy Review 21 [PDF ebook] 
Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009

Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. This year the Review takes the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally. The first part brings together a selection of papers which have been commissioned to examine historical and contemporary developments in policy tackling Beveridge’s five evils of want, idleness, disease, squalor and ignorance, looking at how policy has changed since the aims and ideology of the inception of the post-war welfare state. The second part looks at the issue of the current challenges facing children’s welfare services internationally: always a contemporary and contentious issue. The final part brings together a selection of papers looking at the effect of policy development at various governance levels on social policy. The contributions bring together an exciting mix of internationally renowned authors to provide comprehensive discussion of the some of the most challenging issues facing social policy today.

About the author

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.