Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks

Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare.

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Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks

Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare.

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Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks

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Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134677078
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/27/2005
Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Mary Langan

Table of Contents

Introduction John Clarke and Mary Langan, both at University of Open University 1. The Contested Concept of Need Mary Langan, The Open University 2. Rationing Health Care Mary Langan, The Open University 3. Whose Needs, Whose Resources? Accessing Social Care Marian Barnes, University of Birmingham 4. Children's Needs: Who Decides? Esther Saraga, The Open University 5. 'Give 'em What They Deserve': The Young Offender and Youth Justice Policy John Muncie, The Open University 6. Legitimate Membership of the Welfare Community Lydia Morris, University of Essex 7. Review John Clarke and Mary Langan
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