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Comprehensive reform in child welfare: the British Children Act 1989
- Author:
- GASKINS Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 67(1), March 1993, pp.1-16.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
An American analysis of the use of legislative mandates as tools for child welfare reforms based on the Children Act 1989. Argues that the task of reshaping statutory principles requires delicate trade-offs that can often be accomplished only by retreating to abstract language and tacit presumptions and thus by deferring important, concrete choices to implementation procedures. These complexities restrict the ability of mandates to accomplish two traditional goals: sending clear signals for policy implementation and providing specific criteria for judging policy outcomes. The Children Act introduces subtle shifts in priorities in competing social values, whose guarded expression burdens the clarity and specificity of mandates. Whether or not their results are ultimately beneficial, such reform strategies increase the tensions and uncertainties under which social workers and others carry out their practical responsibilities.
Lilley livid
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.10.92, 1992,
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite great divisions within the Conservative Party the social services have not escaped unscathed. Reports from the party conference.
The radical right and the welfare state: an international assessment
- Editors:
- GLENNERSTER Howard, MIDGLEY James
- Publisher:
- Harvester Wheatsheaf/Barnes & Noble
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 207p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Describes the radical right theories of welfare and their history and discusses their impact in Britain, the USA, Chile, Germany, Israel and Canada.
The roots of a caring society?
- Author:
- HESELTINE Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.4.90, 1990, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Encouraging people to provide for themselves and a commitment to protecting the most vulnerable are at the root of Tory philosophy - the first part of a transcript of the Sixth Annual Community Care Lecture.
Towards a "red" and pleasant land?: the attack on poverty and the pursuit of social justice in the Attlee era, 1845-51
- Author:
- PAGE Robert M.
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 16(2), June 2008, pp.125-133.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The post-war Attlee governments (1945-51) have come to be regarded as the most "progressive" in the history of the Labour Party. In this article attention is given to how the Labour governments of this period responded to the problem of want or poverty. Consideration is then given to the way in which Labour's attack on poverty formed part of a broader strategy to create a more just society. This is followed by an assessment of the impact of Labour's approach to poverty and its pursuit of social justice.
Devolution, direct rule and neo-liberal reconstruction in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- HORGAN Goretti
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 26(3), August 2006, pp.656-668.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Northern Ireland is a deeply unequal society emerging from war. The anticipated ‘peace dividend’ has not materialized for people living in poverty who were also most affected by the conflict. The devolved administration in Northern Ireland 2000–2 was constrained in its response to social exclusion by Treasury rules. This paper argues that attempts under devolution to develop new public services and more publicly oriented Public–Private Partnerships have been reversed by Direct Rule Ministers.
Carrots or sticks?: the use of incentives to achieve social policy goals in Australia
- Authors:
- CHENOWETH Lesley, WARBURTON Jeni, BUCKLEY Amma
- Journal article citation:
- New Global Development, 21(1), 2005, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Dialogues
Using incentives to promote policy and programme agendas has become an established strategy across various arenas of government intervention in Australia. A range of financial benefits such as tax rebates, concessions, refunds or discounts are widely used as inducements or 'carrots' to increase compliance to government agendas. At the other end of the incentive spectrum, penalties such as increased taxes, fines or social security benefit cuts are applied as 'sticks' to achieve policy directives. To date there has been little critical evaluation of incentives used in social policy domains in Australia. In this paper we critically analyse ten initiatives in health and social policy which employed incentives to increase participation and compliance. Analysis revealed that incentives are highly targeted, centrally controlled and usually aimed at achieving short term or political goals rather than long term outcomes. Incentives are largely directed at changing individual behaviour and there are observed inequities in whether 'carrots' or 'sticks' are adopted initiatives.
Human rights, equality and democratic renewal in Northern Ireland
- Editor:
- HARVEY Colin J.
- Publisher:
- Hart
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 336p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Recent developments in Northern Ireland have correctly been described as historic. The Good Friday Agreement 1998 marked a significant departure from incrementalism and thus with the dominant logic of British constitutionalism. These papers offer a collection that both describes the changing legal and political landscape in Northern Ireland and provides a significant contribution to current debates on constitutionalism both in Northern Ireland and in the UK as a whole.
People with learning difficulties in from the cold
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.3.01, 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The learning difficulties white paper for England has seen charities united in their praise for its aims and vision. But concerns still exist about the support provided to make the vision real.
Labour's tough love
- Authors:
- JORDAN Bill, PARTON Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.8.00, 2000, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The New Labour government has plenty of ideas that affect the traditional territory of social work, yet its systems for putting them into practice have bypassed social workers. The authors argue that a constructive, confident and flexible profession could and should play a central role.