Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861345941 ISBN 13: 9781861345943

Publisher: Policy Press, 2005

Synopsis

Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland is the first book to integrate the description and analysis of social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999. It has been designed to support the delivery of social policy and related courses in Scotland itself but also to appeal to students on social policy, politics, sociology, public policy and regional studies courses across the United Kingdom, on which devolution and its impact are examined.The contributors are all highly experienced researchers and academics from across the social sciences. The book therefore presents a variety of perspectives and approaches with which to consider the key issues. Up-to-date material on a wide range of social policy topics, including work and welfare, health and social work, criminal justice, education, and urban policy, means that the book will be valuable to academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners, as well as students.

About this title

About the Author

Gerry Mooney, The Open University (Scotland) and Gill Scott, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University

Review

This is a timely volume on social policy under devolution, based on informed critical analyses. It does not make comfortable reading for those seeking simple governance solutions alone, but offers ideas and visions of an alternative social strategy of relevance and transferability to other devolved territories. Mike Danson, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley

This book is a key source for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers who are based in or intersted in social policy in the devolved administrations of the UK, particularly, but not exclusively, in Scotland. Journal of Social Policy"It is refreshing to have this substantial and trenchant book written from a critical perspective. ... The book will be a useful briefing and stimulus to thought for all involved in Scottish politics and policy... [a] valuable edited collection." Scottish Affairs, No. 56, Summer 2006.

This is an excellent edited collection. A major achievement is that it recognises the accountability of the individual and collective actors complicit in these processes that create and reproduce social inequalities and divisions. Journal of Social Policy

...this is an excellent book, making a valuable contribution to a 'new' literature on social policy in the 'new' Scotland. This collection will be a key source for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers in Scotland and beyond. Urban Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1861345941
• ISBN 13: 9781861345943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Mooney Gerry, Scott Gill