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Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Steven Saxonberg
This article begins by discussing some of the main approaches that have emerged to gender and family policy, before proceeding to discuss more modern trends. It begins by discussing institutional approaches, such as the male-breadwinner model, defamilialisation, degenderisation. Then it discusses cultural approaches, such as the national ideals of care, gendered moral rationalities, and Hakim’s preference
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From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Salla Era, Hisayo Katsui, Teppo Kröger
In this study, we investigated the conceptual approaches to disability and ageing in two leading social scientific journals (Ageing & Society [AS] and Disability & Society [DS]) of the research fields that form the bases of policies on disability and ageing. This study aimed to identify the journals’ trajectories of conceptual development and their differences, and through that, find possible pathways
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Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Amílcar Moreira, Antonios Roumpakis, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Olga Cantó
As they were just coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Southern European nations were confronted with a new shock to their economies – this time in the form of a steep rise in prices. This article describes and typifies the social policy responses and measures adopted in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain in response to rising inflation. We find that Southern European (SE) governments have put forward
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Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Olga Ulybina
We provide an overview of transnational non-state actors and their agency that shape today’s out-of-home childcare around the world, specifically institutional residential childcare. Based on existing studies and desktop research, we reveal a broad range of complexly inter-related for-profit and non-profit actors promoting diverse, often conflicting policies and practices – with ambiguous implications
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Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the New Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kate Andersen
The introduction of Universal Credit, a new means-tested benefit for working-aged people in the UK, entails a significant expansion of welfare conditionality. Due to mothers’ disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care, women are particularly affected by the new conditionality regime for parents who have the primary responsibility for the care of dependent children. This article draws upon qualitative
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‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Edith England, Josie Henley
Despite increasing attention to the importance of gender as an analytic to understanding neoliberal welfare reform, little attention has been paid to how motherhood operates to structure experiences. We propose the term ‘maternal activation’ to describe how homeless mothers as a group are subject to, and yet repurpose and resist, specific forms of social control characterising neoliberal paternalistic
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‘Working With the Whole Person’: Employability Keyworker Experiences of Supporting People Furthest From the Labour Market Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Annie Irvine, Joe McKenzie, Christine Brass, Alex Kelley
This article explores the experiences of keyworkers within a third-sector employability programme targeted at people furthest from work. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, the study investigated keyworker perspectives on effective elements of programme design, and what made the critical difference for those who did move into employment. Echoing previous research, findings confirmed the value
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The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Colin Clark
Issues of environmental justice regarding housing, health, and other public services have been subjected to critical scrutiny in Scotland for some time. However, such concerns have not focused on Gypsy/Traveller communities and their accommodation on local authority and private sites. Politically, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Greens have been in favour of providing and funding
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People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jae-jin Yang, Yonhyok Choe, Yunmin Nam
The discourse on universal basic income varies widely across countries. In Sweden, public opinion is generally negative even in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is barely discussed on the public policy table. On the other hand, in South Korea, public opinion is not as negative as in Sweden, and basic income is actively raised as policy agenda. Our study based on survey results reaffirmed
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Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference? Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ilyar Heydari Barardehi, Mahnoush Abdollah Milani, Sepideh Soltani
Economic sanctions have inflicted various economic difficulties on Iranian families. The extent to which these sanctions-induced calamities have affected Iranian older adults’ material well-being remains unknown. Meanwhile, inadequate institutional support for the disadvantaged older population may worsen their precarious economic well-being. We use household-level surveys and quantile regression analysis
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“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Carla Petautschnig, Virpi Timonen
Activation schemes are widely criticised, with the negative experiences of ‘the activated’ featuring prominently in the literature. This article presents the findings of a constructivist grounded theory study concerning the lived experience of long-term unemployment, welfare recipiency and community placement in activation schemes in Ireland, with a focus on the positive effects that participating
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Introduction: Comparing Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Daniel Béland, Bea Cantillon, Bent Greve, Rod Hick, Amílcar Moreira
This introduction to our themed section on social policy responses to the recent cost-of-living crisis spells out this topic and the key issues examined in the section’s main contributions before summarising their findings and overall contribution to the literature. More specifically, to frame this themed section, the present Introduction begins with a concise, up-to-date overview of the inflationary
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The Economic Cost of Unpaid Care to the Public Finances: Inequalities in Welfare Benefits, Forgone Earnings-related Tax Revenue, and Health Service Utilisation Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Javiera Cartagena-Farias, Nicola Brimblecombe
There is limited research on the effect of unpaid care on the public finances, and on the inequalities present when providing support to those with caring responsibilities. The aims of this research are to estimate the overall costs to the State of providing care, and to identify sub-groups of carers with relatively greater costs to the government who may need more support. We used waves eight to ten
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The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Rod Hick, Micheál L. Collins
This paper compares social policy responses to the cost-of-living crisis in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. In seeking to protect citizens from an inflationary shock, a series of fundamental social policy questions arise. What would the aims of support packages be? To what extent should support be universal or targeted? If targeted, did existing policy architectures facilitate or frustrate the
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A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Micheál L. Collins
Living life on a poverty income remains commonplace in most modern welfare states. A growing literature highlights the impact on individuals, families, and communities of poverty, costs that are both current to the experience and reflecting its scarring effects. A further cost, one that is frequently hidden, is the cumulative and recurring public expenditure associated with policy responses to poverty
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(in) Accuracy in Algorithmic Profiling of the Unemployed – An Exploratory Review of Reporting Standards Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Patrick Gallagher, Ray Griffin
Public Employment Services (PES) increasingly use automated statistical profiling algorithms (ASPAs) to ration expensive active labour market policy (ALMP) interventions to those they predict at risk of becoming long-term unemployed (LTU). Strikingly, despite the critical role played by ASPAs in the operation of public policy, we know very little about how the technology works, particularly how accurate
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What Determines Social Service Workers’ Wages: A Cross-Country Analysis Using a Luxembourg Income Study Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Sung-Hee Lee, Kim Yun-Young
The study is aimed at exploring the influencing factor of wages among social service workers (SSWs) through a cross-country analysis. Using Luxembourg Income Study data, two aspects are emphasised: first, the trends and patterns of wage levels among SSWs. Second, the determining factors that influence their low wages at a cross-national level and how those factors are intersectionally intertwined to
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Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Daniel Béland, Bea Cantillon, Bent Greve, Rod Hick, Amilcar Moreira
The cost-of-living crisis that began in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and the attempted Russian invasion of Ukraine has major implications for social policy. In advanced industrial countries, this is the most dramatic cost-of-living crisis since the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s. In this contribution, we explore the inflation and social policy nexus to identify the nature and sources of inflation
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Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation? Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Larissa Nenning, Paul Bridgen, Katharina Zimmermann, Milena Büchs, Merita Mesiäislehto
The article discusses five literature strands’ approaches towards social protection systems in the context of climate crisis: Adaptive Social Protection, Just Transition, Green New Deal, Post-growth, and Eco-feminism. As we argue, these five strands are located on a spectrum between a green growth orientation and a green anti-capitalist orientation. Furthermore, they differ in terms of their problematisation
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Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Zahid Mumtaz
To date, practical and scholarly work on the interaction between formal and informal social protection has focused on crowding in and crowding out of informal social protection by formal social protection. However, little is known about the relationship between both forms of social protection in conditions where one form of social protection is more effective than the other, or both forms of social
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Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Diana Valero, Jess Cook, Angus Lee, Alison L. Browne, Rowan Ellis, Vidya Sagar Pancholi, Claire Hoolohan
Access to safe, clean and affordable water is a basic human right and a global goal towards which climate change poses new challenges that heavily impact the health and wellbeing of people across the globe and exacerbate or create new inequalities. These challenges are shaped by a number of geographical and social conditions that, apart from the risks of weather-driven impacts on water, include water
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Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Sam Yu, Iris Lo
This article highlights the interconnection between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) research and social policy research, and argues that a greater focus on the welfare needs of gender and sexual minority people can advance the defamilisation and familisation literature. While defamilisation and familisation studies have gained significant attention for examining whether individuals
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How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation? Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Bent Greve, Ivan Harsløf, Minna van Gerven, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Jakob Strigén
Rising inflation in the Nordic societies has changed the living standards for many families. The situation differs not only between the four Nordic countries analysed, but even within each of the Nordic countries. The needs for intervention have varied. Several elements have been used to determine who is facing the most risks. This article shows how to combine automatic stabilisers with temporary policy
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Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Luca Cigna, Torben Fischer, Emina Hasanagic Abuannab, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb
‘Just transition’ is a concept originally developed by the labour movement to reconcile workers’ rights with the necessity to combat climate change. More recently, supra- and international organisations have also adopted this idea. However, it remains unclear to what extent these actors follow the eco-social ambitions of organised labour. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework to capture
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Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Mike Titterton, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
The authors provide a scholarly conspectus of comparative studies involving Russian, EU8 and EU15 Welfare Polities. They elaborate the notion of the ‘welfare polity’ and its potential for enhancing comparative studies of welfare institutions, policies and practices. This is accompanied by an overview of trends in comparative studies involving Russian, EU8 and EU15 countries, along with a consideration
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If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Carolyn Snell, Sara Anderson, Harriet Thomson
Climate change is arguably the defining issue of our time, with global impacts. Yet to date, scholarship within social policy has remained relatively fragmented and disparate, leaving an urgent need to start comprehensively embedding environmental thinking across all domains of the discipline (Williams, 2021). Responding to this challenge, this paper draws together existing work at the nexus of social
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Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Ana Stojilovska, Harriet Thomson, Adolfo Mejía-Montero
The recent polycrises of COVID-19, economic recession, and energy price increases have reinforced the critical importance of energy services – such as heating, information and communications technology, and refrigeration – to everyday societal functioning. Compromising access to these energy services, or energy poverty, limits social and economic development affecting education, health, and social
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Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Lucie Middlemiss, Carolyn Snell, Emily Morrison, Yekaterina Chzhen, Anne Owen, Kelli Kennedy, Samanthi Theminimulle, Tania Carregha
The policy area addressing the climate crisis in the UK, ‘Net Zero’, will affect many aspects of people’s everyday life. Given that policy builds from where we are now, which for some (post austerity, and mid cost of living crisis) means in financial crisis, there is work to be done in enabling a socially inclusive Net Zero. In this article, we modify the Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix’s four forms
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The Role of Family Background and Education in shaping inequalities. Evidence from the Spanish regions Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Ana Suárez Álvarez, Ana Jesús López Menéndez
Family background characteristics and educational resources are crucial in shaping individuals’ income and therefore a potential source of income inequality and inequality of opportunity. This article analyses inequalities in the Spanish diverse regions using data from the European Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Along this article we analyse the relevance of family background characteristics
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Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan
Social policies’ responsiveness to rising inflation depends in large part on whether they contain automatic indexation mechanisms, which ensure that the real value of wages and benefits expands during inflationary periods. Here we compare how the indexation of Canadian and U.S. policies on pensions, minimum wages, and food security have affected their responsiveness to the recent cost-of-living crisis
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Have Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 Been Institutionalised? Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Sony Pellissery, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional reforms. The study of the institutionalisation of emergency responses is relevant to understanding if and how a critical juncture, like the one opened by the pandemic, can generate path dependencies or changes that expand or retrench
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Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Maria Bernard
This article maps how inclusive discourses aimed at addressing systemic racism and anti-Black racism circulate and operate within youth social policy in Ontario, Canada. Numerous reports and programmes attempt to understand systemic racism and propose new approaches to youth work in addressing youth violence, underemployment, underachievement, etc. This article demonstrates how efforts to counter state
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Home Education in England: A Loose Thread in the Child Safeguarding Net? Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Carl Purcell, Mary Baginsky, Jill Manthorpe, Jenny Driscoll
For a small number of parents home education is a preferred alternative to school and in England more parents are taking up this option. This has refuelled a long-running debate about the adequacy of a regulatory framework under which parents are not required to register their children as home educated and provision is not routinely monitored. This article highlights concerns regarding the ability
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Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sazzad Parwez
This study aims to empirically understand the precarity of food delivery work at online platforms particularly during the COVID-19-led devastations. Food delivery workers are the new form of the global phenomenon in the labour market. This is a result of access to cheap internet and smartphones among customers, which has enabled the platform to create a new form of labour market. Platform-based food
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Tackling Ethnic Minority Disadvantage: The Differential Impact of Short-term and Long-term-Oriented Strategies on Subsequent Job Matches and Sustainable Employment Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Roy Peijen, Ton Wilthagen
In the Netherlands, the generic work-first support seems unable to mitigate the scarring effects of prior unemployment on ethnic minorities’ careers. This study compares the impact of vulnerable ethnic minorities participating in an alternative employer-based employment programme with a control group entitled to work-first support on employment up to ten years later. We look at how both labour market
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The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Seoyeon Ahn, Ji Young Kang, Yung Chun, Sojung Park
The goal of this study was to examine the effect of a social pension programme for older adults in South Korea, Basic Pension Scheme (BPS) on material hardship and subjective well-being. We apply a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to estimate the effect of the BPS on the material hardship and life satisfaction of older people between the ages of sixty-one and sixty-eight. Data come from Korea
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The Impact of Employer Characteristics on Sustaining Employment for Workers with Reduced Capacity: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Julie Ulstein
Both literature and public policy on work inclusion has shifted towards the demand-side, which recognises that employer engagement is crucial to increase labour market participation and sustained employment for vulnerable groups. Research shows, however, that the implemented demand-side policies have been less than effective. This opens a discussion about barriers to implementation in terms of relevant
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The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Jerry Buckland, Wendy Nur, Jodi Dueck-Read
Family and community care work – mentoring, feeding, and nurturing – is a critical activity in any society. It is, and it enables, productive and reproductive acts that hold society together and enable economies to function. Its importance is magnified for people with low income in that their economic options, outside the home, are more limited than for people with higher incomes. We conducted a year-long
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Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Understanding the interaction between child labour and schooling in rural and urban areas in Ghana is essential to implement the most appropriate intervention. I aimed to establish parental perceptions of the extent child labour interferes with schooling in rural and urban areas in Ghana. The participants recruited were from Ghana purposively sampled across rural areas (Ankaase, Anwiankwanta and Kensere)
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NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Tafadzwa Rugoho, John Kuumuori Ganle, Michael Ashley Stein, Nora Groce, E. Pamela Wright, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
This case study investigates strategies used by the NGO Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe (LCDZ) to promote the SRHRs of girls and young women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The findings show that LCDZ employed a combination of six strategies. These are: (1) building practical knowledge on SRHRs; (2) increasing community awareness and sensitivity; (3) providing SRHRs-related education; (4) enhancing
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Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Hayley McKenzie, Rebecca Lindberg, Fiona H. McKay
More than one in ten Australians live in poverty, with many relying on government provided support and emergency payments. These payments are insufficient to cover basic costs of living, and as a result, many people are forced to engage with emergency and community food assistance. The aim of this article is to explore the experiences of those who, despite being in receipt of an Australian welfare
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Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Tauchid Komara Yuda, Rizqi Ashfina
Established theories of social policy development, such as industrialisation and power resources, have been extensively used to explain the expansion of social policy, predominantly in developed economies. We argue that they may not always be applicable in the Global South. Our article examines multiple factors at play in Indonesia’s healthcare policy expansion using qualitative content analysis of
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Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Hyewon Park, Kosuke Sakai
In East Asia, higher education support policies (HESPs), as the core of the social policies targeting young people, have undergone a significant transformation since the 2000s. The aim of this article is to articulate the reformation process of HESPs by focusing on the National Student Loan system and to investigate whether support for youth is still considered a family responsibility in the post-2000s
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Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Nuriiar Safarov
The digitalisation of public services brought challenges for their access and use. This article looks at the migrants as claimants of the public services to analyse the problems with the digital delivery of public services. The previous research recognised the various resources, such as digital skills and administrative literacy, needed for the successful use of digital services. However, the role
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The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow, Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson, Laura Way
This article explores the impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policies on young fathers and their families. We present analyses from a larger programme of qualitative longitudinal research examining young fatherhood in the UK and Sweden to develop a unique international comparative and empirical contribution. The views and experiences of young fathers are examined in the
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‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Kerry Allen, Emily Burn, Kelly Hall, Catherine Mangan, Catherine Needham
This article seeks to understand the challenges of combining the distinct aims of personalisation and integration in adult social care. Addressing the local context of service delivery in England through interviews with key stakeholders, we identify how personalisation and integration activities require different, and potentially conflicting, approaches. We observe direct tensions when structural integration
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Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Felicity Daly, Claire Edwards
COVID-19 triggers urgent questions about the social, political and ethical implications of care markets, practices and relations. This article presents analysis of the Houses of the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response exposing current discourses about care in Ireland. Utilising the Trace analysis method (Sevenhuijsen, 2004), grounded in feminist care ethics, reveals a state accountability
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Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Tauchid Komara Yuda, Nur Qomariyah
Coronaviruses have emerged as a potential disruptive force in policymaking. Using a comparative case study method, we examine two social policy responses in Jakarta, Indonesia: the Social Safety Nets (SSN) programme and the health policy. Such examples demonstrate an aggressive change in policy direction from means-tested systems and government-centred approaches to a total relaxation of conditions
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Caring Piously: New Institutionalisation of Childcare Services in Turkey Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Saniye Dedeoğlu, Aslı Şahankaya Adar
In Turkey, Early Childcare and Education (ECCE) policy has never been prioritised in the social policy agenda and was even further pushed back with the welfare state’s weakening role in the 2000s. The private sector, inaccessible for many, particularly low-income households, has tried to fill the significant gap in the supply side of these services. Municipalities and the Presidency of Religious Affairs
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Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Kirsty McKenzie, Jennifer Smith-Merry
Background:Personalisation in disability support funding is premised on the notion that services come together through the individual. Where people have very complex needs, many individuals and their supporters find it difficult to facilitate services themselves. This article examines the Integrated Service Response (ISR), an Australian response to complexity implemented during the National Disability
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‘You’re having us on … that’s what it felt like.’: Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Edith England
That domestic abuse is a human rights infringement has become recognised at policy, practice, and legislative level globally. Homelessness services are critical in averting and mitigating harm to those who have experienced domestic abuse. The British homelessness system achieves this, in part, through offering a legal right to housing in some circumstances. The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 integrates a
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Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Eloise Hummell, Samantha J. Borg, Michele Foster, Karen R. Fisher, Catherine Needham
The marketisation of disability support driven by individualised funding brings new dilemmas for multi-agency collaboration, in particular how to provide personalised supports while remaining commercially viable. This article explores the challenges, risks and adaptations of organisations to navigate the tensions of personalisation and collaboration. Framed by street-level research and using the context
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Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Catherine Needham, Michele Foster, Karen R. Fisher, Eloise Hummell
This article reviews the design and delivery features of individualised budgets for disabled and older adults to understand the mechanisms for disaggregation and collaboration in the way support is organised and delivered. Individualised funding is often assumed to be a fragmenting force, breaking down mass provision into personalised and tailored support and stimulating diverse provider markets. However
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More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Erwin Gielens, Femke Roosma, Peter Achterberg
Universal Basic Income (UBI) reached political agendas as a proposal to radically reform welfare systems, followed by scholarly interest in its public legitimacy. While surveys find UBI support to be mostly redistribution-driven, the discussion in science and media suggests a more nuanced understanding. To comprehensively grasp the public response to UBI policy, this article explores the controversies
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Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Kateryna Krakhmalova
The following article is dedicated to the empirical case study from Ukraine and focuses on the work of Ukrainian courts resolving the cases of internally displaced persons in the realm of social policy. Based on interviews and secondary sources in terms of data, it explains the problem area of the legal regulations and administrative practices applicable to internally displaced Ukrainians in the sphere
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Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Ella Kuskoff, Andrew Clarke, Cameron Parsell
In response to growing evidence that cultural values and behaviours are key drivers of men’s use of domestic violence against women, states across the globe are increasingly implementing prevention policies aimed at mobilising cultural change within the community. Through an examination of one Australian state’s recent and significant domestic violence policy reform, we demonstrate that, although state-led
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Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Rasmus Lind Ravn
Labour market participation by refugees in their new host country is crucial both to the integration process and in terms of reducing public spending on income replacement benefits for refugees. In this article, we explore workplace factors associated with employment of refugees. For this purpose, we use a survey of Danish employers, in light of the fact that with some notable exceptions, the employer
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Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Kirstein Rummery, Julia Lawrence, Siabhainn Russell
Background: Personalisation in social care services has become a feature of the delivery of long-term care for disabled people in many developed welfare states. Aim: Scotland has used the devolution of health and social care powers to develop a personalisation scheme (known as ‘Self-directed Support’). The authors apply a theoretical and empirical framework to understand the experience of contemporary
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Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Esuna Dugarova
The current article provides comparative analysis of policy capabilities in COVID-19 response in Russia and Finland by examining key challenges and impacts of the pandemic, and effects of anti-crisis socio-economic measures. It finds that the two countries adopted diverse policy responses that prioritised different segments of society with corresponding budget allocations. Such policy choice has been
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Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System Social Policy and Society (IF 2.238) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Merita Mesiäislehto, Pasi Moisio, Ilari Ilmakunnas
We examine an early ‘red flag system’ in the Finnish social assistance system and its efficiency in reducing the length of social assistance spells. We utilise the age-threshold in the policy that requires notifying social services on beneficiaries under twenty-five years of age after four months of social assistance receipt. Using monthly administrative data covering all twenty-three to twenty-six-year-old