The Student's Companion to Social Policy

This superb Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide and essential resource to social policy.

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• A major resource and comprehensive digest for students working in the discipline: outlines all of the main themes and issues covered in the study of social policy at undergraduate level, setting them in comparative perspective.
  
• Provides a summary of the major sources of material and data available to students of social policy, offering guidance to access to, and use of these resources.
  
• Includes information on how students can study social policy beyond undergraduate level as well as giving guidance on possible careers in social policy and the use of social policy in a range of other careers.

Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham.

Angus Erskine is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling.

Margaret May is Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at London Guildhall University.