Peter Beresford

All our welfare

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Produktbeschreibung

This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford demonstrate the value of â¿¿user knowledge' by challenging orthodox social policy and the limitations of both Fabian and Neo-liberal perspectives drawing on service users â¿¿ own ideas and experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 863g
• ISBN-13: 9781447328933
• ISBN-10: 1447328930
• Artikelnr.: 43707692

Autorenporträt

Peter Beresford OBE is Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex and Emeritus Professor at Brunel University London. He has a background as a long-term user of mental health services and welfare benefits. He is also Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the disabled people's and service users' organisation, network and think tank. He has a longstanding involvement in issues of participation as service user, writer, researcher, campaigner and educator.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Owning not othering our welfare
Part One: The legacy of the past
Setting the scene for welfare and social policy
The Past
The origins of the welfare state
The welfare state and pressures from the war
The principles of the welfare state
The welfare state: Whose consensus?
Back to the past
What's wrong with social policy?
Part Two: The way to the future
The beginnings of something different
A new set of principles for social policy
Reconceiving research
A new approach to social policy
Welfare policy for the twenty first century
Supporting each other in the future
Changing welfare
Afterword: The future: a different way forward?