Understanding Social Security: Issues for Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781447339472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Jane Millar; Roy Sainsbury

Opis

The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015.

Spis treści

Social security: the landscape ~ Jane Millar & Roy Sainsbury; Part One: People and policies across the life course; Social security support for children ~ Tess Ridge; Social security and work obligations ~ Jane Millar; Disabled people and carers ~ Roy Sainsbury; Protecting pensioners ~ Steve McKay; Gender and Social Security ~ Fran Bennett; Social security and the ‘management’ of migration ~ Emma Carmel & Boźena Sojka; Part Two: Issues in policy and practice; Social security in global context ~ Nicola Yeates; Who benefits and who pays? ~ Kevin Farnsworth & Zoë Irving; Public Attitudes to ‘Welfare’ ~ John Hudson; Everyday life on benefits ~ Ruth Patrick, Margaret Mbaikaize and Sue Watson; Jobcentres and the delivery of employment services and benefits ~ Dan Finn; Making It Simple? Universal Basic Income ~ Luke Martinelli; Facing the future: where next for social security? ~ Roy Sainsbury & Jane Millar.