Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables, figures, images and boxes

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-x

Acknowledgement

pp xi-xii

one - Social Investment in welfare: a sub-national perspective

pp 1-22

Part A - Children and families: early intervention in people’s life courses

pp 23-26

two - Investing in the future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services system

pp 27-42

three - Troubled Families in Greater Manchester

pp 43-58

four - Innovative voluntary and public sector partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, Sweden

pp 59-78

Part B - From a caring state to an investing state: labour market activation

pp 79-82

five - The Youth Guarantee and One-Stop Guidance Centres as a social innovation and a policy implementation tool in Finland

pp 83-96

six - Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece

pp 97-112

seven - Network for the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Münster, Germany (MAMBA)

pp 113-126

eight - Labour market activation and empowerment of the homeless in Poland

pp 127-142

Part C - Social solidarity and Social Investment

pp 143-146

nine - The creation of a socially diverse neighbourhood in Utrecht, the Netherlands

pp 147-164

ten - Revitalising the self-sufficient household economy: the Social Land Programme in Hungary

pp 165-178

eleven - Social Investment and the causes of energy poverty: are cooperatives a solution?

pp 179-194

twelve - Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?

pp 195-214

Index

pp 215-224