Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-x

Part One - Continuities and change in UK social policy

pp 1-2

One - Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy

pp 3-22

Two - Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS?

pp 23-40

Three - Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st century UK welfare state

pp 41-62

Four - Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond

pp 63-86

Part Two - Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015

pp 87-88

Five - ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction?

pp 89-104

Six - Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality

pp 105-126

Seven - The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state?

pp 127-146

Eight - Eight What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care

pp 147-168

Part Three - Individualised budgets in social policy

pp 169-172

Nine - Social insurance for individualised disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

pp 173-190

Ten - Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets

pp 191-210

Eleven - Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes

pp 211-232

Twelve - Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production

pp 233-250

Thirteen - Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care

pp 251-268

Index

pp 269-277