Micro-provision of Social Care Support for Marginalized Communities - Filling the Gap or Building Bridges to the Mainstream? [0.03%]
微支付认证社会关爱边缘化社群:弥合差距还是通向主流的桥梁?
Catherine Needham,Sarah Carr
Catherine Needham
As English social care services reconstruct themselves in response to the personalization agenda, there is increased interest in the contribution of micro-providers - very small community-based organizations, which can work directly with in...
Athina Vlachantoni,Zhixin Feng,Maria Evandrou et al.
Athina Vlachantoni et al.
Reflecting a relatively low-value Basic State Pension, occupational pensions have historically been a key aspect of pension protection within Britain. Existing research shows that minority ethnic groups are less likely to benefit from such ...
School Choice in London and Paris - A Comparison of Middle-class Strategies [0.03%]
伦敦与巴黎的学校选择问题——一个中产阶级策略比较的问题研究
Michaela Benson,Gary Bridge,Deborah Wilson
Michaela Benson
Education is one major public service in which quasi-markets and other choice-based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamenta...
Envisioning the Third Sector's Welfare Role: Critical Discourse Analysis of 'Post-Devolution' Public Policy in the UK 1998-2012 [0.03%]
展望第三部门的福利角色:对英国“归还权力后”公共政策(1998-2012)进行批判性话语分析
Paul Chaney,Daniel Wincott
Paul Chaney
Welfare state theory has struggled to come to terms with the role of the third sector. It has often categorized welfare states in terms of the pattern of interplay between state social policies and the structure of the labour market. Moreov...
Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem [0.03%]
英国工作计划中的全面支持?差别支付,老问题依旧存在
James Rees,Adam Whitworth,Elle Carter
James Rees
The UK has been a high profile policy innovator in welfare-to-work provision which has led in the Coalition government's Work Programme to a fully outsourced, 'black box' model with payments based overwhelmingly on job outcome results. A pe...
Regional Issue: Social Policy Developments in Australia and New Zealand [0.03%]
区域问题:澳大利亚和新西兰的社会政策发展动态
Christopher Deeming
Christopher Deeming
In his celebrated work of comparative policy, Francis Castles argued that a radical wage-earning model of welfare had evolved in Australia and New Zealand over the course of the 20th century. The Castles' thesis is shown to have two parts: ...
Trials and Tribulations: The 'Use' (and 'Misuse') of Evidence in Public Policy [0.03%]
试与错:证据在公共政策中的运用(及误用)
Christopher Deeming
Christopher Deeming
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly playing a central role in shaping policy for development. By comparison, social experimentation has not driven the great transformation of welfare within the developed world. This introdu...