Ken Blakemore is a senior research fellow in social policy policy in the School of Human Sciences at Swansea University. He has previously taught in Africa, in the USA (UCLA) and at universities in Coventry, Wawick and Birmingham, as well as Swansea. He has researched and written widely in several fields of social policy, including comparative education, diversity and equal opportunities, and policies on care of older people.
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The authors
Preface
The subject of social policy
Ideas and concepts in social policy
The development of social policy in Britain
The global social policy environment
The contested boundaries of social policy: the case of criminal justice
Who gets what? Slicing the welfare cake
Social policy, politics and social control
Who makes policy? The example of education
Work and welfare
Are professionals good for you? The example of health policy and health
professionals
Utopia and ideals: housing policy and the environment
Community and social care
Devolution and social policy
Conclusion: the future of social policy
Glossary
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