British Social Welfare

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Preface
Contributors
Introduction: change, continuity and welfare
The welfare state and the state of welfare	p. 1
Education: the changing balance of power	p. 28
Employment policy: a chronicle of decline?	p. 52
Spending more to achieve less? Social security since 1945	p. 71
Health: from seamless service to patchwork quilt	p. 98
Housing: on the edge of the welfare state	p. 124
Urban policy in post-war Britain	p. 142
Individual welfare: locating care in the mixed economy	p. 161
Introducing the personal social services	p. 161
Child care and the personal social services	p. 170
Disabled people and the personal social services	p. 183
Older people and the personal social services	p. 195
Voluntary action and the state	p. 214
Markets and the future of welfare	p. 241
Social policy and the active society	p. 265
Accountability and empowerment in welfare services	p. 289
Quality in welfare services	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 345
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