Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures

pp v-vi

List on contributors

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part one - Current developments

pp 11-12

one - Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009

pp 13-30

two - Children's social care under New Labour

pp 31-50

three - Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems?

pp 51-70

four - Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts

pp 71-96

five - Prize-winning paper: Minimum income standards and household budgets

pp 97-118

Part two - Current issues and debates

pp 119-120

six - Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis

pp 121-148

seven - Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis

pp 149-172

eight - ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK

pp 173-198

nine - Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy

pp 199-224

Part three - Service user involvement

pp 225-226

ten - Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses

pp 227-252

eleven - Participation and social justice

pp 253-274

twelve - Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities

pp 275-290

thirteen - Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people's ‘well-being’ through participatory action research

pp 291-316

fourteen - Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother?

pp 317-336

Index

pp 337-344