Peter Beresford

All Our Welfare (eBook, ePUB)

Towards Participatory Social Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford, champion of user involvement, draws on pioneering theories and practice of welfare service user movements to offer a blueprint for a new participatory social policy. He controversially challenges orthodox social policy and the limitations of both Fabian and Neo-liberal perspectives in engaging people to improve their own welfare, drawing on service users ' own ideas and experience, including fascinating vignettes from his own family's experience, to demonstrate the value of 'user knowledge'. Filling a much-needed gap in the literature, this accessible text will provide a great introduction for students and a road-map for practitioners of an alternative vision for a future participatory and sustainable social policy. It will also command much wider interest from everyone concerned with how we look after each other in future in society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447328971
• Artikelnr.: 44874048

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?