Paying For Welfare - Softcover

Glennerster, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134420136 ISBN 13: 9780134420134

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for. The new edition brings the textbook up-to-date with its fast-moving subject area, explaining the finance of human services - health care, education, housing, social security a nd social care-through a review of the economic literature. It also gives an account of how the cash to pay for the services actually reaches schools, hospitals and social service departments, right from the start of the process, examining how government raises taxes, through to allocation of the funds. Both comprehensive and expertly written, this textbook will continue to feature as key reading for a variety of Social and Policy related courses.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Glennerster has been an active participant in the social policy process and a commentator on it since the early 1960s, when he joined the Labour Party Research Department. He taught social policy at the London School of Economics for over thirty years and is now Professor Emeritus of Social Policy and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion there. He is the author of many books and journal articles on social policy including "Understanding the Finance of Welfare" (2003). He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0134420136
• ISBN 13: 9780134420134
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 350