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Tag Archives: social policy
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged climate change, economy, Labour Party, Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy, socialism
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Policy as contestation
Every year the University of Manchester puts on a week of lectures, symposia and other events concerned with the relationship between research and policy: “Policy Week”. Generally there is plenty to interest. I was lucky enough to be asked to … Continue reading
Posted in Manchester, policy, politics
Tagged contestation, Manchester, policy, Policy Week, politics, social movements, social policy
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What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care?
The Socialist Health Association has just published this piece on their blog. It is a response to recent discussions on the integration of health and social care based on my long term experience of developing and managing such integration. Read … Continue reading
Convivial Social Policy?
updated 21 November, 2014 As part of the Steady State Manchester project, I’ve been trying to do some work on the implications of a post-growth society and economy for social policy. This is a real cross-over question for me having … Continue reading
Posted in social policy
Tagged conviviality, neoliberalism, politics, social policy, steady state economics, Steady State Manchester, welfare
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