Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.
Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They consider the extent to which austerity has continued and the influence of other policy emphases, such as a ‘levelling up’ agenda. Reflecting on the rapid changes of Prime Minister, they compare the themes of the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak administrations, critically examine the impacts of the external shocks of Brexit and COVID-19, and the changing patterns of public expenditure.
Nick Ellison is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham.
Ian Greener is Head of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen.
Anne Daguerre is Associate Professor in Work Employment and Welfare, Business School, Middlesex University, London, and an alumna of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC.
David Etherington is Professor of Local and Regional Economic Development at Staffordshire University. His research focuses on the political economy of welfare reform and employment relations in the UK and Nordic countries.
Catherine Bochel is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside