Ruth Lupton & Tania Burchardt 
Social Policy in a Cold Climate [EPUB ebook] 
Policies and their Consequences since the Crisis

Introduction ~ Ruth Lupton, Kitty Stewart, Tania Burchardt, John Hills and Polly Vizard;

Part One:

Benefits, pensions, tax credits and direct taxes ~ John Hills, Paola De Agostini and Holly Sutherland;

Young children ~ Kitty Stewart and Polina Obolenskaya;

Schools ~ Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thomson and Polina Obolenskaya;

Further and higher education and skills ~ Ruth Lupton, Lorna Unwin and Stephanie Thomson;

Employment policy since the crisis ~ Abigail Mc Knight;

Housing ~ Becky Tunstall;

Health ~ Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya and Emily Jones;

Adult social care ~ Tania Burchardt, Polina Obolenskaya and Polly Vizard;

Part Two:

Public and private welfare ~ Tania Burchardt and Polina Obolenskaya;

Socioeconomic inequalities ~ John Hills and Kitty Stewart;

The changing structure of UK inequality since the crisis ~ John Hills, Jack Cunliffe and Polina Obolenskaya;

Spatial inequalities ~ Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya and Amanda Fitzgerald;

Part Three:

Summary and conclusion ~ John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Tania Burchardt, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard.

John Hills (1954-2020) was Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He wrote extensively on inequality, public policy and the welfare state. He was a member of the Pensions Commission and Chair of the National Equality Panel for the Labour government and led a review of the measurement of fuel poverty for the Coalition government. He was knighted in 2013 for services to the development of social policy.