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Social policy
and wellbeing
- public policy-policy
produced by governments
- important factors shaping the local
conditions and services that families
experience
- important factors shaping the local
conditions and services that families
experience
- Distribution of
resources
- determine how services
are funded and what
practitioners are
empowered to do.
- determine how services
are funded and what
practitioners are
empowered to do.
- main areas
- Health
- Education
- Material needs
- Housing
- Transport
- Income distribution
- Social care
- Health
- Wellbeing
- the wellfare state
- Beveridge report
- Principle of universality
- Principle of universality
- 1945–1975 and the ideology of the
social democratic welfare state
enjoyed widespread support
- Conservative governments seeked to
reinstate a greater measure of
individual and family responsibility for
welfare, attacking both the ‘entitlement
culture’ and provision
- Labour governments - 1997
to 2010,
- introduced a minimum wage,
worked towards full employment
and sought to attract investment
via favourable corporation tax
regimes
- Sure Start children's centre programme
- stronger focus on stimulating the supply of,
and demand for, high quality childcare
services within neighbourhoods and within
groups with high rates of worklessness and
long-term poverty
- development of an
early education
curriculum
- stronger focus on stimulating the supply of,
and demand for, high quality childcare
services within neighbourhoods and within
groups with high rates of worklessness and
long-term poverty
- Children’s
Commissioners
- promotes and protects children's rights
- listening to what children and young
people say about what matters to
them and making sure adults in
charge take their views and interests
into account
- should have particular regard to
children living away from home or
receiving social care,
- promotes and protects children's rights
- introduced a minimum wage,
worked towards full employment
and sought to attract investment
via favourable corporation tax
regimes
- Beveridge report
- the wellfare state
- Social policy
- can shape practice
- it is up to practitioners
to make it work
- arose from the particular
problems identified by the politicians
and political commentators at the
time
- should address inequality
- can shape practice
- The state and the
family
- Care and
learning
- Family policies
- are developed for both
families and for children and
young people
- often include provisions
aimed at children
- helping families will not
automatically help
children
- are developed for both
families and for children and
young people
- Care and
learning
- Public policy,
children and young
people
- involves private and public lives
- use of subjective terms such as a
‘good childhood’ or ‘hard-working
families
- the theory of everything-
- almost every social problem common in
developed societies – reduced life
expectancy, child mortality, drugs, crime,
homicide rates, mental illness and obesity –
has a single root cause: inequality.
- Wilkinson and Pickett
(2009) research
- everyone loses in an unequal society
- others offer arguments and
evidence that disadvantages of
birth can be counteracted by
things such as the quality of
education
- almost every social problem common in
developed societies – reduced life
expectancy, child mortality, drugs, crime,
homicide rates, mental illness and obesity –
has a single root cause: inequality.
- involves private and public lives
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