Making a complex subject very approachable, this new edition to this popular book is an essential resource for any student needing to understand social policy in Britain today. This is an updated edition of a very well-established and strong selling book. The author is respected by lecturers and popular with students. It has fully revised features to aid learning, including web-based and electronic resource lists.Understanding social policy can be a daunting task, this book guides students and trainees through the subject, making complex ideas easy to digest. Packed with updated questions, tasks and resource lists, it provides important material on major new areas of debate, including pension provision and rising NHS costs.

Social Policy in Britain

Pete Alcock

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Understanding Poverty

'Alcock has done us all a service. He has written an excellent, readable textbook. ' - Angus Erskine, Benefits 'It will be much used by students and others as a source book on poverty.' - Bob Holman, Community Care This text provides a comprehensive and accessible review of research on and debates about poverty and anti-poverty policy in Britain and beyond. It deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is an essential text for students of social policy, sociology and related disciplines.

Politics & Social Sciences

ALCOCK

Social Sciences

Social Policy in Britain: Themes and Issues

Sociology

This new edition of a best-selling introductory textbook has been thoroughly revised to cover the major changes in British social policy since Labour came to power in 1997. The book has also been substantially extended in order to offer clear coverage of the core areas of social policy provision in addition to its discussion of the themes and debates that inform policy development and outcomes. It handles a remarkable range of material and this new edition offers increased support to the lecturer and student in the form of boxed summaries, questions for both comprehension and reflection and annotated further reading lists.

Social Policy In Britain

Praise for the second edition: 'Superb updated edition. You cannot study social policy without reading this.'- Lynne Brown, Belfast Institute of Higher and Further Education, UK 'Provides a succinct overview of both the historical and current developments in major areas of social policy. Easy to read, provides useful questions for students' focus.' - Surinder Guru, University of Birmingham, UK 'Even better than the previous edition. Thoroughly updated, it covers a lot of ground without drowning students, opening up a range of issues for them to discuss and interpolate.' - Margaret May, London Metropolitan University, UK

Politics & Government

The Student's Companion to Social Policy

Tina Haux

Margaret May

Sharon Wright

Wiley/Blackwell

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