The Health and Social Care Act for England 2012: The extension of 'new professionalism' 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

The 2012 Health and Social Care Act, introduced by the coalition government, has been seen as fundamentally changing the form and content of publicly funded health care provision in England. The legis...

Book review: Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts and Mike Savage (eds.) Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Book review: Gavin Bissell Organisational Behaviour for Social Work 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Book review: Paul Michael Garrett Social Work and Social Theory: Making Connections 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Book review: Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph and Randall Smith Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge' 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Book review: Liz Lloyd Health and Care in Ageing Societies: A New International Approach 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Book review: Margaret Wetherell (ed.) Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Invitation for Expressions of Interest in Joining the Editorial Collective of Critical Social Policy 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

Going from bad to worse? Social policy and the demise of the Social Fund 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

This paper considers the origins and traces the history of the Social Fund, an ideologically-motivated social policy departure of the Thatcher era. It identifies the controversy, in research communiti...

'Putting our mark on things': The identity work of user participation in public services 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm

New relationships between service users and the welfare state have emerged as a result of governmental strategies of public service reform in which participation has appeared as the cure for a putativ...