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The Conservative Governments’ record on social policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: policies, spending and outcomes. An assessment of social policies and social inequalities on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yes, 2023
This overview report provides an assessment of social policy developments under the three Conservative Governments that were in power between May 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.
Lupton, Ruth   +16 more
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Urban and local social policies in the Nordic countries

open access: yes, 2022
Nordic welfare states continue to rely on strong central and local governments in the regulation, funding, and implementation of social policies. However, decentralization of particular policy areas (e.g.
Johansson, Håkan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Decentring social policy? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Policy, 2008
AbstractConstitutional change offers the opportunity for a major departure in the nature and direction of policy, practices and governance in social policy. This article explores some of the impacts devolution has for the discipline of social policy, suggesting that devolutionmattersfor social policy as a field of research and study, and for the ...
Williams, Charlotte, Mooney, Gerry
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Social Housing and Homelessness Policies : reconciling social justice and social mix? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Whilst housing policies already had a distinctive Scottish flavour even before devolution, the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 has allowed further policy-divergence (see for example, Maclennan and O’Sullivan 2008).
McKee, Kim, Phillips, Danny
core   +2 more sources

Social Policy

open access: yes, 2022
It has been forty years since James Callaghan – the only person to hold all four of the great offices of state – resigned as Leader of the Opposition, bringing to an end over three decades of service on the front bench.\ud \ud Debate still rages over whether Callaghan was a successful Prime Minister.
openaire   +1 more source

The Conservative Governments' record on health from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: policies, spending and outcomes

open access: yes, 2023
This research report examines developments in the progress that was made in promoting good physical and mental health and longevity, and reducing mortality and morbidity inequalities, over the five-year period between May 2015 and early 2020, when the ...
Vizard, Polly   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Valutare per prevenire: la rilevazione del cambiamento negli autori di violenza tra procedure standard e indicatori qualitativi.

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2023
I risultati contrastanti emersi nella letteratura specializzata con riferimento al tema dell’efficacia del trattamento degli autori di violenza di genere, impongono un supplemento di riflessione che integri la conoscenza scientifica con la conoscenza ...
Pietro Demurtas, Caterina Peroni
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The Inner Functioning of Local Governance Networks in Centralized Countries: A ‘Brave New World’?

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
Local governance networks are increasingly seen as the big idea to cope with issues that are complex enough in scope and scale to require a diversity of expertise and resources. While conventional narrative has posited that local networks are optimal for
Patrícia Silva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Micro-Segregation of Ethnic Minorities in Rome: Highlighting Specificities of National Groups in Micro-Segregated Areas

open access: yesLand, 2023
This paper aims to study ethnic micro-segregation in Rome, namely, high residential concentrations of ethnic groups at the micro-area level within neighbourhoods with low concentrations of these groups, with a focus on specific situations of spatial ...
Massimiliano Crisci, Michele Santurro
doaj   +1 more source

Hostile work climate: gender barriers in the European energy R&I workforce

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Achieving climate neutrality by 2050 demands a fundamental transformation of the energy sector, which currently accounts for 76.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Meeting these targets requires attention not only to the green technologies produced by
Maria Camilla Fraudatario   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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