Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain: Perspectives on Change and Choice

ISBN-13: 9780333793145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

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Opis

This text brings together contributions by British experts to examine the shifting relationship between welfare policy and the voluntary sector. Taking into account the fundamental reassessment of the role of the state in welfare and the funding and organization of the delivery of health care, social services, housing and so on, it asks what the implications are for voluntary sector organzations and in what specific ways they are responding to their new expanded role.

Spis treści

Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Twenty Years of Change; M.Harris, C.Rochester and P.Halfpenny.- Public Policy, Social Policy and Voluntary Organisations; N.Deakin.- Tackling Social Exclusion: The Contribution of Voluntary Organisations; D.Billis.- Contracting: The Experience of Service Delivery Agencies; D.W.Scott and L.Russell.- Regulation: The Impact on Local Voluntary Action; C.Rochester.- Regeneration: The Role and Impact of Local Development Agencies; S.P.Osborne and K.Ross.- Partnership: Insiders and Outsiders; M.Taylor.- Providers of Care for Older People: The Experience of Community Care; J. Kendall and M.Knapp.- Grant-Making Foundations: Policy Shapers or Policy Takers?; D.Leat.- International Development NGOs: Policy Conflict and Convergence; D.Lewis.- Non-Profit Housing Agencies: 'Reading' and Shaping the Policy Agenda; D.Mullins and M.Riseborough.- Boards: Just Subsidiaries of the State?; M.Harris.- Volunteers: Making a Difference?; J.Davis Smith.- Users: At the Centre or the Sidelines? M. Locke, P.Robson and S.Howlett.- Voluntary Organisations in a Changing Policy Environment; M.Harris

O autorze

MARGARET HARRIS is Professor of Voluntary Sector Organisation at Aston Business School and was formerly Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Organisation at the London School of Economics. She edited (with David Billis) Voluntary Agencies: Challenges of Organisation and Management and is the author of Organising God's Work. She is International Editor of the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

COLIN ROCHESTER is Consultancy Leader and Principal Lecturer, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Management, at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He has more than thirty years' experience of working in and with the voluntary and community sectors as practitioner, manager, consultant and researcher. He has published widely on sector issues and devised and co-edited An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector with Justin Davis Smith.

Blurb

The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart of these changes. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, voluntary organisations have been cast in leading roles on the social policy stage. They are expected to make key contributions to countering social exclusion; to regenerating communities; to providing social housing and welfare services; to promoting international aid and development; and to developing and sustaining democratic participation and the active community.

But how are voluntary sector organisations grappling with the implications of their new, expanded role? How is their relationship with the state changing in practice? This book, which has its origins in an international conference of leading academics in the field, provides answers to these pressing questions. It analyses the numerous and complex ways in which the formulation and implementation of social policy is dependent on the contributions of the voluntary sector. It discusses the impact of the new policy environment on voluntary organisations. And it suggests that the successful implementation of social policy requires government to acknowledge and nurture the distinctive features and contributions of voluntary sector organisations. Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain is essential reading not only for the many people studying, working in or working with the voluntary sector in Britain but also for anyone who is interested in the formulation and implementation of social policy.