An introduction to Social Policy

Paul Spicker

A-Z of subjects

A

• Absolute poverty
• Administration of social services
• The administration of welfare in the UK
• Arguments for welfare
• Arguments against welfare

B

• The Beveridge report
• The Beveridge scheme
• Birth
• Biology
• Blog
• The body
  
• Bureaucracy

C

• Child Benefit
• Child abuse
• Child protection in the UK
• Children, needs of
• China, welfare state
• Christian Democracy
• Citizenship
• Class
• Conservatism
• Community care
  • Community care (psychiatric patients)
  • Community care policy in the UK
• Comparative social policy
• Conditionality
• Co-production
• Corporate social responsibility
• Council housing
• Corporatism
• Criminal justice services
  • Criminal justice services in the UK
• The "crisis" of welfare

D

• Death
• Democracy
• Deviance
• Developing countries
  • Gender and development
    
• Disability
  • Commentary on benefits for disability
• Discretion
• Discrimination
  
• Discretionary benefits
• Domestic violence
  

E

• The economics of the welfare state
• Economic policy in the UK
• Education
  • Educational disadvantage
  • Education policy in the UK
  • Educational standards in the UK
  • Models of education
• Elites and power
• Employment services
  
• Empowering users
  
• Equality
  • Policies for equality
  • Redistribution
  • The strategy of equality
• European Union
• Evaluating policy
  
• Exclusion

F

• Family
  
• Fascism
• Feminist perspectives
• France
• Fraud and error in social security benefits
• Freedom
  
• Functionalism

G

• Gender and social policy
  • Gender and development
• Genetics
• Germany
• Globalization
• Government

H

• Health
  • Health care
  • Financing health care
  • Health inequalities
  • Health care in the UK
  • Development of health care in Britain
• Higher and further education
• Historical interpretations of the development of welfare states
• History of British social policy
• Housing
  • Housing problems
  • Homelessness
  • Housing and deprivation
  • Housing policy in the UK
• Housing Benefit
• Human beings
• Human rights

I

• Ideology and social welfare
• Immigration
• Incapacity benefits
  • Incapacity benefits in the UK (commentary)
• Income and wealth
• India
  
• Individual and social well-being
• Individualism
• Inequalities in health
• Inequality
• Informal sector
• Institutional welfare
• Interactionism
• Internet resources

J

• Justice
  • Criminal justice services
  • Criminal justice services in the UK

K

• Keynesian economics

L

• Labour markets
• Labour movement
• Law
  
• Learning disability
• Left wing politics
• Liberal individualism
• The Liberal Government 1905-1911 (UK)
• Local authority housing (UK)
• Local government (UK)

M

• Management
  • New Public Management
    
• Markets
• Marriage
  
• Marxism
• Means testing
  
• Mental illness
  
• The mixed economy of welfare
• Models of welfare
• Monetarism
• Morality
  
• Mutual aid

N

• Nation
• National Health Service
  • The NHS in principle
  • The NHS and the hospitals
  • The organisation of the NHS
  • The NHS and quasi-markets
    
• Need
• New Public Management
  
• Non-contributory benefits
• Non-decisions
• Normalisation

O

• Old age
• One parent families
• Online resources
• Owner-occupation

P

• Paul Spicker's blog on social policy
• Pensions
  • Pensions (UK)
  • Commentary on pensions
• Persons
  
• Personal social services
  • Personal social services in the UK
• Personalisation
• Physical disability
• Planning
• Pluralism
• Poland
• The politics of welfare
• The Poor Law
  • The Old Poor Law
  • Settlement and removal
  • Workhouses under the Old Poor Law
  • Out relief
  • The Poor Law of 1834
  • The workhouse under the New Poor Law
  • The Poor Law and Public Health
  • ...and Local Government
  • ... and Education
  • ... and Health services
  • The end of the Poor Law
• Populism
  
• Poverty
  • The causes of poverty
  • Measuring poverty
  • Targeting the poor
  • Policies for poverty
    
  • Commentary on poverty
• Power
• Prejudice
  
• Professionalism
• The provision of welfare
• Psychiatric care
• Primary education
• Private sector
• Private rented housing
• Problem estates
• Public sector
• Public services
  • finance
  • management
  • paying for welfare

R

• Race and social policy
  
• Rationing
• Readings in social policy
• Redistribution
• Relative poverty
• Religious influences
• Residual welfare
• Welfare régimes
• Right wing politics
  • The radical right
  • Right wing arguments against welfare
• The right to welfare
  
• Rights
• Risk

S

• Sanctions
• Scotland
  • Commentary on social policy issues in Scotland
• Selectivity
  • Selectivity and poverty
• Service delivery
• Sexuality
  
• Single parents
• Social administration
• Social control
  
• Social democracy
• The social division of welfare
• social investment
• Social Policy
• Social policy and administration
• Social problems
• Social security
  
• Social security benefits
• Social service management
• The social structure
• Social work
• Socialism
• Solidarity
• Source material, guidance to students
• Spicker, Paul
• The state
• Status
• Stigma
  
• Stratification
• The structure of social services
• Subcultures
• Suicide
  
• Sweden

T

• Targeting
  • Targeting the poor
    
• Tax
• Teenage pregnancy
• Terminating pregnancy
  
• Trades unions

U

• Unemployment
  • Social security for unemployed people (UK)
  • Commentary on UK unemployment issues
• The United Kingdom
• The social policy of the United Kingdom
  • The government of welfare in the UK
  • The main government departments dealing with social policy in the UK
• United States
• Universality and selectivity
• Universal benefits
• Universal credit
• Urban deprivation and the inner cities
• Urban policy

V

• Violence, interpersonal
  
• Voluntary sector
• Vulnerability

W

• The Web - sources on social policy
• About the website
• Welfare
• Welfare pluralism
  
• Welfare to work
• Well-being
• Welfare state
• Welfare states
• The welfare state and economic performance
• The welfare state in Britain
  • Before the welfare state
  • The British welfare state after 1948
• Who is welfare for?
• Work and society
• The Work Programme
• The workhouse
• Writing about social policy