Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland

Gerry Mooney is Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He has written widely in the field of social policy, poverty and inequality and in urban studies. Gill Scott is Director of the Scottish Poverty Information Unit and Professor of Social Inclusion and Equality in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Caledonian University. She has extensive research experience in the sociology of poverty, urban regeneration and equalities.

• Contents: Introduction ~ Gerry Mooney and Gill Scott; The Scottish Parliament and social policy ~ Lynne Poole and Gerry Mooney; Education and lifelong learning ~ Margaret Arnott; Cities, regions and housing: area-based policy ~ Charlie Johnstone and Chris McWilliams; Family policy, gender and mainstreaming ~ Gill Scott; Criminal justice ~ Hazel Croall; Health policy and social care ~ Steve Platt; Employment, work and welfare in modern Scotland ~ TBC; Social inclusion, poverty and inequality ~ Gill Scott and Gerry Mooney; Social work and social care ~ Iain Ferguson; Racism and immigration ~ Philomena De Lima; Conclusion ~ Gill Scott and Gerry Mooney.

"This is an excellent edited collection. A major achievement is that it recognises the accountability of the individual and collective actors complicit in these processes that create and reproduce social inequalities and divisions." Journal of Social Policy