Download or read book The Social Fund 20 Years On written by Chris Grover and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context. There is a particular need to engage with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security policy. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Grover provides the reader with evidence that this is not the case by locating Social Fund loans in a lengthy history of debate about, and practice in, loaning poor relief and social security. Using primary data hitherto unused in social policy research, Grover shows that there is a long history embedded in British systems of poor relief of authorities having the power to loan applicants either cash that had to be repaid or providing food and items, the value of which then had to be repaid. Understanding this history will give a greater depth to our understanding of the state's purposes in relieving the financial needs of the poorest people as well as to our knowledge of contemporary social security policy.
Download or read book Experiences and Consequences of Being Refused a Community Care Grant written by Elaine Kempson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding social security Second edition written by Millar, Jane and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly risky world the need for social security support is greater than ever. Benefits and tax credits aim to provide protection against economic risks, help families with the costs of bringing up children, enable people to save for retirement, and provide support in old age. Key goals are to redistribute income to alleviate poverty and help people maintain living standards across the lifecourse. Reform of the social security and tax systems has been at the heart of the UK Labour government's aspirations to modernise the welfare state since 1997 with major changes in both policy and administration. This second edition of the important text, Understanding Social Security, reviews these policy developments, giving readers the information and analytical tools to make sense of policy debates and reforms and to evaluate options for the future. The chapters have been extensively updated since the first edition, with new chapters on social security reform, inequalities and social security, and the new 'welfare market'. The main topics covered include: · the social security safety net · racism, ethnicity, migration · social security governance · global social security · social security and the life course · the challenge of childhood poverty · reforming pensions · welfare to work · sickness, incapacity and disability · tax credits · service delivery information technology The book provides a critical examination of social security policy and practice and is essential reading for students of social policy, social work and sociology, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of social security, welfare-to-work, employment, anti-poverty strategies and welfare rights. It will be of interest to those interested in recent policy developments in these areas, emerging issues and debates, and in wider issues of the modernisation of the welfare state.
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Law and Diversity written by Neville Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision, including: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school, out-of-school settings, and duties towards children with special needs and disabilities. It gives extensive coverage to children's rights in the context of education and includes considerable new material on issues including relationships and sex education, exclusion from school, home education, equal access, counter-extremism and academisation. The new edition also retains and updates areas of debate in the book, such as those concerned with multiculturalism and the position of religion in schools. It continues to focus on England but also makes reference to other jurisdictions within the UK and internationally. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the legal and related policy issues surrounding children's education today.
Download or read book Affordable Credit written by Collard, Sharon and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2005-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor pay more for many things but, arguably, it is the extra they pay for credit that puts the greatest strain on their budgets. This report looks beyond the rhetoric that has dominated much of the debate on high-cost credit to examine the scope for widening access to more affordable credit. The report explores what people on low incomes want from a credit source. It also analyses the constraints on lending to poor people. It looks at the scope for reducing the costs of lending and widening access to more affordable credit, and estimates the scale of demand for affordable credit. This report should be read by commercial and not-for-profit lenders, campaigners, policymakers and anyone studying or researching issues around poverty and financial exclusion.
Download or read book Understanding social citizenship written by Dwyer, Peter and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and revised edition of Understanding social citizenship is still the only citizenship textbook written from a social policy perspective. It provides students with an understanding of the concept of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and global welfare institutions; covers a range of welfare debates and issues; explores inclusion and exclusion; combines analysis and discussion of social policies and uses easy-to-digest text boxes. The revised second edition contains new topical sections on 'Cameron's Conservatism' and the EU and A8/10 migration in the UK. The book is essential reading for undergraduates in social policy, sociology, social work, politics and citizenship, A/AS level students and their teachers, and those on access courses, foundation degrees and teacher training courses.
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue 2007 written by U K Stationery Office and published by Stationery Office Annual Catal. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No public library discount on this title
Download or read book Social Security and Welfare written by Robert Walker and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the objectives of social security and social assistance provisions? How can we establish whether these provisions are effective? How do countries differ in the design and effectiveness of their social security systems? This introductory textbook provides a foundation for the systematic study of social security and means-tested social assistance. The book is structured around a model of policy evaluation, which focuses attention on the multiple objectives and outcomes of social security and provides the basis for a multi-disciplinary approach. It progresses from an examination of the varied objectives of social security, via a consideration of key implementation issues, to the establishment of measures of effectiveness and efficiency. Throughout the text theoretical issues are illustrated with reference to the experiences of six countries: the United Kingdom, the USA, Australia, Germany, Sweden and South Korea, to provide an international comparative framework. This is a key textbook for students of social and public policy and economics and essential reading for anyone interested in social security, social welfare and the welfare state.
Download or read book The Inclusive Society written by Ruth Levitas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does social inclusion mean? This revised and updated edition of The Inclusive Society? identifies three competing meanings of the term in contemporary British Politics, emphasising poverty, employment and morality. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work and moral regulation.
Download or read book Family Law written by Polly Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched with examples and carefully-constructed scenarios, Family Law offers students a helpful framework on which they can hang principles, academic analysis, and critical discussion.
Download or read book Decision making and appeals in the benefits system written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Work and Pensions Committee reiterates its call for the establishment of a Welfare Commission to create a fairer and simpler benefits system that claimants can understand and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) can administer more accurately. The report concludes that the vast majority of decisions DWP makes are accepted by claimants and lead to the right benefits being paid on time to those who are eligible. But the level of official error in the benefits system has increased substantially since 2000-01. The level of overpayments due to official error has risen from £0.4 billion (0.4 per cent of benefits paid) to £0.8 billion (0.6 per cent of benefits paid) in 2008-09. Although the Department has made great strides in reducing fraud, this increase in error should be a cause for concern. The report also highlights a worrying lack of response to scrutiny of the decision making and appeals (DMA) system by DWP. A former President of the Appeal Tribunals, Judge Robert Martin, felt his reports were effectively ignored, and there is evidence that the Decision Making Standards Committee lacks influence. There should be a much more constructive response to scrutiny. Another area that seems not to be working as effectively or as quickly as it should is the reconsideration process - the review of decisions - and the Department should examine this urgently.
Download or read book Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes written by Great Britain. Dept. for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report covers the review of the rebate by the Government Actuary for people with salary-related contracted-out schemes (COSRS), money purchase contracted out schemes (COMPS) and Appropriate Personal Pensions (APPS) in relation to the five year period commencing on 6 April 2007. Rebates appropriate for members of APPs and COMPs would also be appropriate where such schemes are stakeholder pensions, under the terms of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999. The paper sets out two reports on occupational and personal pension schemes, one by the Government Actuary and the other by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Under the Pension Schemes Act 1993, a review is required every 5 years of the percentages specified in section 41 of the Act for the reduction in the Class I National Insurance contributions for members of salary-related contracted-out schemes (COSRS), known as the rebate. The review should cover any changes in the factors affecting the cost to occupational pension schemes. Separate requirements exist for members of money purchase contracted-out schemes (COMPs). The previous review was published in March 2001 (Cm.5076, ISBN 0101507623). April 2007 and may continue to apply until April 2012, though recommendations on the future of contracting out pension schemes as set out in A New Pension Settlement for the Twenty-First Century (ISBN 0117036021), along with Government proposals in a White Paper due in the Spring 2006 may lead to a further review of the reduced rates and rebates of National Insurance contributions.
Download or read book The future for older workers written by Loretto, Wendy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world governments in mature industrial and post-industrial economies are concerned about the ageing population. Dealing directly and exclusively with the issue of older workers, this book brings together up-to-the-minute research findings by many of the leading researchers and writers in the field. The duration and quality of working lives and the timing and circustances of retirement are of growing concern, especially in those cases where employers' demands and imperatives clash with employees' wishes. The contributions in this volume focus upon various measures taken by the state and employers to foster the employment of older workers in Britain, mainland Europe, the US and Japan. The authors address key issues that will influence public policy, exploring what workers over 50 want, the impact of the ageing workforce on employer policies and the implications for governments in promoting and supporting extended working lives. The book is aimed at academics, students, policy makers and other professionals (such as training managers, HR professionals and trade unionists) interested in contemporary issues within social policy, the sociology of ageing, and human resource and diversity management. It wil also be of interest to older workers themselves.
Download or read book The Discretionary Social Fund and Money Management written by Nick Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion Research written by Dominic Abrams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social exclusion is a key problem for policy makers, researchers and professionals worldwide. Despite this, the debate lacks a dominant disciplinary focus. This innovative handbook covers evidence from key research and policy to offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on major areas of social exclusion. Focusing on central policy domains including education, healthcare and crime, it is structured so as to relate evidence to the state of social exclusion and the mechanisms by which it can be tackled. It book will be an unrivalled reference for academics and practitioners working across disciplines including housing, education, psychology, political science, healthcare, sociology and law.
Download or read book The Performance of the Child Support Agency written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating previously unpublished HCP 928-i, -ii, -iii, session 2003-04
