What what n*****? Suspects’ racist taunting and fatal stabbing of Stephen Lawrence in London: 22 April 1993 I can’t breathe George Floyd before his death during police restraint in Minneapolis, US: 25 May 2020 More […]
Narratives of housing and social policy, particularly in the UK, tend to focus on the growth of state activity in the delivery of housing from 1945 to 1980. However, the last 40 years have seen […]
It has been 80 years since William Beveridge was commissioned to report on the ways that Britain should be rebuilt after the Second World War. As is well known, the resulting government White Paper ‘Social […]
The Social Policy Association Executive Committee wish to express our concerns about the pressures being placed on our members, along with other academics, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, during the Covid-19 pandemic. We call on all […]
We have worked to keep registration rates low this year, recognising that many budgets are straitened, and that an online conference is a different offering from our usual annual conferences. Please note that all rates […]
In light of the current pandemic, we will be moving our 2021 Social Policy Association Annual Conference, 7-9th July, online. This year’s theme is ‘Global challenges – national social policy responses?’. The conference invites participants […]
As England moved into its third national lockdown, all primary and secondary schools had to once again close their gates to most pupils, making ‘distance learning’ the default option. These partial school closures are likely […]
Can we measure the degree of welfare state development in Latin America beyond the popular social expenditure or welfare generosity indicators? And why have some countries in the region developed more comprehensive welfare systems than […]
With the return to stricter measures including home schooling, the early 2021 lockdown will bring all the challenges to low income families that they experienced last Spring, but four factors will make it even harder […]
Tensions between wealthier and poorer regions in some developed countries are well known. In Italy, for example, richer regions in the north of the country demanded in 2017 to have more autonomy over their own […]
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