From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of
the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the preventable harm created by the
adoption of austerity measures in 2010, added to the welfare reforms introduced in 2008 …

Young adults with disabilities are a specific target of the welfare-to-work policy introduced by
many OECD countries over the past decade. The implementation of these policies is a …

Eligibility for health-related income benefits in the United Kingdom is now determined
through the use of functional assessments conducted by healthcare professionals. Claimant …

This article reports on the Child Poverty Action Group Early Warning System (EWS), a
database of case studies representing social security issues reported directly by frontline …

Social innovation has become a prominent theme in discussions of social policy reform
across the world. This book examines why social innovation is important to social policy …

The Conservative government inherited the Coalition government's response to the private
sector financial crisis of 2007 to 2008, as fiscal stimulus approaches to solving the crisis …