All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy

ISBN-13: 9781447328940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 468 str.

Peter Beresford

Opis

The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. In All Our Welfare, Peter Beresford explores the establishment and trajectory of the postwar welfare state and offers a blueprint for participatory social policy in the future. By showing that early welfare policies resulted from popular revulsion against the inequity of the market and associated poor laws, Beresford reveals that the welfare state was ultimately undermined by its failure to engage the people it was intended to help. Noting the subsequent similar failure of neoliberal social policy to engage people in improving their own welfare, Beresford draws on the pioneering theories and practices of current welfare service user movements to outline participatory approaches to social policy theory, knowledge development, policy, practice, and support, identifying a series of principles that could underpin them and offering inclusive models for sustainable change. Also including fascinating vignettes from his own family's experience, Beresford demonstrates the value of user knowledge.

Spis treści

Introduction: Owning not othering our welfare; Part One: The legacy of the past; Setting the scene for welfare and social policy; The Past; The origins of the welfare state; The welfare state and pressures from the war; The principles of the welfare state; The welfare state: Whose consensus?; Back to the past; What’s wrong with social policy?; Part Two: The way to the future; The beginnings of something different; A new set of principles for social policy; Reconceiving research; A new approach to social policy; Welfare policy for the twenty first century; Supporting each other in the future; Changing welfare; Afterword: The future: a different way forward?