SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 17 Analysis and debate in social policy, 2005 Edited by Martin Powell, Linda Bauld and Karen Clarke
First published in Great Britain in June 2005 by The Policy Press University of Bristol Fourth Floor, Beacon House Queen’s Road Bristol BS8 1QU Tel +44 (0)117 331 4054 Fax +44 (0)117 331 4093 e-mail
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Contents Notes on contributors Introduction Martin Powell, Linda Bauld and Karen Clarke Part One: Current services one Social security and welfare reform under New Labour Peter A. Kemp two New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention? Rob Hulme and Moira Hulme three Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004 Rudolf Klein four Housing in an ‘opportunity society’ Peter Malpass five Personal Social Services Ann Netten Part Two: Current issues six Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript Eithne McLaughlin seven At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects Theodore Marmor eight The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions Sally Ruane nine Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities John Clarke, Nick Smith and Elizabeth Vidler ten The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector Adriana Castelli, Diane Dawson, Hugh Gravelle and Andrew Street