Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures

pp v-vii

List of contributors

pp viii-x

Overview

pp 1-8

Part One - Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on

pp 9-10

one - Freedom from want: 60 years on

pp 11-28

two - Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state

pp 29-48

three - Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008

pp 49-66

four - Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare?

pp 67-86

five - Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state

pp 87-108

six - The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on

pp 109-130

Part Two - Contemporary childcare policy

pp 131-132

seven - Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues

pp 133-166

eight - Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes

pp 167-196

nine - Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model

pp 197-214

ten - Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden

pp 215-242

Part Three - Rescaling social policy

pp 243-244

eleven - Governing at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy

pp 245-266

twelve - Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare

pp 267-282

thirteen - Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe

pp 283-306

Index

pp 307-322