The United Kingdom : new devolved welfare systems in Britain
Deeming, Christopher; Blum, Sonja and Kuhlmann, Johanna and Schubert, Klaus, eds. (2019) The United Kingdom : new devolved welfare systems in Britain. In: Handbook of European Welfare Systems. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780367259150
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Abstract
This chapter examines welfare developments in the United Kingdom (UK) and the changing British welfare state. It begins with a brief historical overview before moving on to consider social reforms in the 1998–2018 period and the devolution of welfare in Britain. The chapter looks at the general structures of the British welfare system as a whole, in terms of social spending levels and societal outcomes for poverty and inequality. It then examines the following policy areas in more detail: social assistance, old-age and pensions policy, labour market policy, family policy, health and social care, housing, and education. It also reviews the continuities and discontinuities, changing policy paradigms, and ideas underpinning the social reform agenda. The chapter also reflects on welfare trajectories now that the UK (as a whole) has voted to leave the EU. It is significant that while England and Wales voted for Brexit, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted Remain.
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Deeming, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4825-1373; Blum, Sonja, Kuhlmann, Johanna and Schubert, Klaus-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 70597 Dates: DateEvent10 December 2019Published20 November 2019Accepted30 April 2018SubmittedNotes: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Handbook of European Welfare Systems on 12th December 2019, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367259150. Subjects: Social Sciences > Public Finance Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 21 Nov 2019 12:36 Last modified: 04 Dec 2024 01:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70597