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In the latest edition of Social Policy Review, experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year.
The book addresses current issues and critical debates within the field, with a particular focus on intergenerational research. Contributors also explore key social policy and research developments across a wide range of themes, including the impact of COVID-19 on eldercare and homelessness, research into Faith Based Organisations, local social services in Italy and social policies for Autistic adults in England and Wales.
Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this comprehensive volume will be essential reading for students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Global developments in social policy research - Ruggero Cefalo, Marcia
Rose and Andy Jolly
Part 1: Intergenerational research
1. Intergenerational research, policy and practice for sustaining social care
in the UK: current challenges and future aspirations - Lois Peach, Lena
Sakure, Mirain Llwyd Roberts, Stephanie Green and Kate Howson
2. An intergenerational divide in the context of COVID-19? - Lizzie Ward and
Stephanie Fleischer
3. Impacts of substance use across generations: exploring how the risk of
problem substance use can be impacted by locus of control - Penelope Laycock
4. COVID-19 and intergenerational equity: can social protection initiatives
transcend caste barriers in India? - Akanksha Sanil
5. Two levels of agency: the negotiation of intergenerational support in
Chinese families - Jiaxin Liu
Part 2: Research developments in social policy analysis
6. The impact of COVID-19 on the residential care sector for the elderly:
employment and care regimes in the European comparative perspective - Marco
Arlotti and Stefano Neri
7. Curating Spaces of Hope: exploring the potential for Faith Based
Organisations in uncertain times - Matthew Barber-Rowell
8. The Innovative Job Agency: an experiment in renewing local social
services in Pisa (Italy) - Elena Vivaldi, Andrea Blasini and Federico Bruno
9. Inequality within equalities: an institutionalist examination of
equalities interest groups engagement in a third sector-government
partnership - Amy Sanders
Part 3: Policy developments
10. Homelessness and the coronavirus - Hilary Silver
11. A Cultural Political Economy case study of Singapores Central Provident
Fund: critiquing welfare policy in the reproduction of subordination and
inequality - Eve Yeo and Joe Greener
12. Unmet need, epistemic injustice and early death: how social policy for
Autistic adults in England and Wales fails to slay Beveridges Five Giants -
Aimee Grant, Gemma Williams, Kathryn Williams and Richard Woods
Ruggero Cefalo is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna.
Marcia Rose is a youth worker, creator of Creative Wellbeing4u and PhD candidate in social policy, sociology and criminology.
Andy Jolly is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Plymouth.
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