What are you doing right now? Marking, meetings and deadlines as usual? Home schooling and working at the same time? Worrying about someone who is ill, or alone, or who needs support? Worrying about your […]
by Peter Whiteford In January 2019 the Australian shadow spokesperson for employment services announced that the Australian Labor Party would reduce the number of job applications that unemployed people receiving benefits were required to make […]
by Kevin Farnsworth The famous cartoon image of William Beveridge — a diminutive civil servant facing down the Five Giants of Want, Idleness, Squalor, Disease and Ignorance — caught the imagination of a generation in the 1940s and […]
by Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan Canada and the United States are often described as liberal welfare regimes. They rely more extensively on social assistance-style programs and tax-subsidized private benefits and services than is the […]
by Kate Brown During National Anti-trafficking Week in October 2016, the UK’s anti-trafficking commissioner reported that “more victims [are] being identified, referred for appropriate support and restored of their freedom”. In the same week, an […]
by Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter Rachel Mantell, a self-employed management consult, earns more than £100,000 per year, can afford to spend £6,000 on holidays, and is sharing her good fortune by hosting refugees in […]
By Harriet Churchill In October Prime Minister Teresa May spoke again about her desire to tackle burning injustices and her belief in the good government can do. She pledged austerity is over. Yet despite evidence […]
by Ruth Patrick Too often, we are told that welfare traps people in dependency, discouraging individuals from making the right choices, and enabling a culture of irresponsibility and inactivity. This lazy, stigmatising narrative has been […]
By Rod Hick The Social Policy Association’s (SPA’s) 50th anniversary blog series has demonstrated the rich variety of topics examined by social policy scholars. While some have examined contemporary policy issues, others have looked back […]
by Lee Gregory In his lecture “The university and Welfare Objectives”, Titmuss highlights two concerns for Social Policy within Higher Education: to provide training for the technical and social service needs of society and to […]
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