Elke Heins is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research mainly focuses on comparative and European social policy as well as the politics of welfare and wellbeing in the UK.James Rees is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership in The Open University Business School. His research focuses on the third sector, public service delivery and reform, as well as leadership, governance and citizen involvement. Catherine Needham is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management in the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on new approaches to public service workforce development, as well as social care and policy innovation.

• Part One: A decade of social policy since the crisis – looking back and forward ~ Elke HeinsThe English National Health Service in a cold climate: a decade of austerity ~ Martin PowellDisability and austerity: the perfect storm of attacks on social rights ~ Kirstein RummeryFinancialisation and social protection? The UK’s path towards a socially protective public–private pension system ~ Paul BridgenTowards a whole-economy approach to the welfare state: citizens, corporations and the state within the broad welfare mix ~ Kevin FarnsworthFrom welfare state to participation society: austerity, ideology or rhetoric? ~ Menno Fenger and Babs BroekemaPart Two: Developments in social policy and contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2018 ~ James Rees and Catherine NeedhamFrom the Windrush Generation to the ‘Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds ~ Andy JollyAlt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology ~ Julia Lux and John David JordanThe moving frontier and beyond: the third sector and social policy ~ Rob Macmillan and Jeremy KendallLocal variations in implementing energy-efficiency policy: how third sector organisations influenced cities’ responses to the Green Deal ~ Rebecca InceIs the ‘lump of labour’ a self-evident fallacy? The case of Great Britain ~ Jacques Wels and John MacnicolFamily as a socio-economic actor in the political economy of welfare ~ Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis

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