Contents

Social Policy
• Social policy and administration
• Welfare
• The welfare state
• Arguments for welfare
• Arguments against welfare
Who is welfare for?
• Models of welfare
  
• Universality and selectivity
  

The politics of welfare
• Government
• Ideology and social welfare
• Marxism
• Socialism
• Social democracy
• Conservatism and Christian Democracy
• Liberal individualism
• Fascism
• The economics of the welfare state
• The welfare state and economic performance
• The "crisis" of welfare

Welfare states
• Comparing welfare states
• The United Kingdom
• France
• Germany
• Sweden
• United States
• International aspects of social policy
• The social policy of the European Union
• Social policy in developing countries
• Globalization and welfare

Values in social policy
• Individual and social well-being
• Solidarity
• Justice
• Freedom
• Rights
• Democracy
• The state

Welfare and equality
• Social inequality
• Policies for inequality
• Redistribution
• The social division of welfare
• The strategy of equality

The social policy of the United Kingdom
• The government of welfare in the UK
• The main government departments dealing with social policy in the UK
• The administration of welfare in the UK
• Local government
• The Poor Law
• The welfare state in Britain
• The welfare state after 1948

Social administration
• The provision of welfare
• Public sector
• Private sector
• Voluntary sector
• Mutual aid
• Informal sector
• Public services
• The structure of social services
• Social service management
• Planning
• Public finance
• Evaluating policy
• Service delivery
• Targeting
• Rationing
• Discretion
• Empowering users

History of British social policy 1601-1948
• The Old Poor Law
• Settlement and removal
• Workhouses under the Old Poor Law
• Out relief
• The Poor Law of 1834
• The workhouse under the New Poor Law
• Public Health
• Local Government
• Education
• Health services
• The 20th century
• The Liberal government
• The inter-war period
• The welfare state

Social need
• Need
• Poverty
• Measuring poverty
• The causes of poverty
• Social exclusion
• Unemployment
• Old age
• The needs of children
• Mental illness
• Services for psychiatric patients
• Learning disability
• Normalisation
• Physical disability

Welfare and society
• The social structure
• Family
  • The normal family
  • Single parents
  • Teenage pregnancy
• Work
  • Patterns of work
  • The labour movement
• Nation
  • Nations and welfare
  • Immigration and nationality
• Social stratification
• Class
• Status
• Power
• Social divisions
• Gender and social policy
  • Feminist perspectives on social policy
• Race and social policy
• Social problems
• Deviance

Social services in the UK
• Social security
• The Beveridge scheme
• Income support
• Social security for unemployed people
• Pensions
• Child Benefit
• Health care
• Development of health care in Britain
• The NHS in principle
• The NHS and the hospitals
• The organisation of the NHS
• Housing and urban policy
• Owner-occupation
• Local authority housing
• Private rented housing
• Problem estates
• Urban deprivation and the inner cities
• Personal social services
• Child care policy
• Social care
• Criminal justice
• Education policy
• Educational standards
• Reforms in education

The social services
• Health
• Inequalities in health
• Health care
• Housing
• Housing problems
• Homelessness
• Housing and deprivation
• Urban policy
• Social security
• Social security benefits
• Social insurance
• Means testing
• Non-contributory benefits
• Universal benefits
• Discretionary benefits
• Employment services
• Personal social services
• Community care
• Social work
• Services to criminal justice
• Education
• Models of education
• Educational disadvantage

The website
• About this website
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• About the author
• A-Z of Subjects

Resources
• Social Policy on the Web