Social Policy Review 21

Social Policy Review provides readers invested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of interest during the past year. This year the Review uses the 60th anniversary of key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally.

Introduction ~ Kirstein Rummery, Ian Greener and Chris Holden; Part one (Kirstein Rummery): Freedom from want 60 years on ~ Michael Hill; Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state ~ Hilary Land; Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 ~ Ruth Lupton and Howard Glennerster; Beveridge's giant of illness: from negative to positive welfare? ~ Martin Powell; Tackling squalor? Housing's contribution to the welfare state ~ Douglas Robertson and James Smyth; The Poor Law Commission 1905-09: a view from a century on ~ John Offer; Part two (Ian Greener): Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998-2007: patterns, trends and issues ~ Peter Selman; Wealth as a protective factor for child outcomes ~ Ilan Katz and Gerry Redmond; Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default 'primary carer' model ~ Alexander Masardo; Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden ~ Gabrielle Meagher, Natasha Cortis and Karen Healy; Part three: Rescaling social policy (Chris Holden): Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy ~ Andrew Wallace; Rescaling solidarity: the welfare state and the new regionalism ~ Michael Keating; Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe ~ Paul Stubbs and Sinisa Zrinscak.