Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of photographs and sources
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Owning not othering our welfare
- Part One The legacy of the past
- Part Two The way to the future
- Afterword The future: a different way forward?
- Appendix One The family
- Appendix Two Research projects and related publications
- References
- Index
Appendix One - The family
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of photographs and sources
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Owning not othering our welfare
- Part One The legacy of the past
- Part Two The way to the future
- Afterword The future: a different way forward?
- Appendix One The family
- Appendix Two Research projects and related publications
- References
- Index
Summary
First-hand ideas and experience about social policy play an important part in this book. In the spirit of a participatory approach highlighting ‘user involvement’, I wanted to give equal priority to experiential accounts alongside conventional ‘expert’ knowledge. Thus within these pages you will find much that originates with welfare service users and their organisations, as well as policy theoreticians and service providers. This includes comments of my own, but I wanted to open this up more broadly and decided also to seek the views of members of my extended family about the welfare state. In some cases, material that has been included already existed and I have signalled its source. In most others I specifically sought people’s views. I tried to do this in a way which would have as little influence as possible on what people had to say. I have included at the end of this Appendix written guidance which I gave to family members which reflects what I said to everyone. There are contributions from people of every age here. I tried to set logical limits to whom I asked, because otherwise it began to feel that ‘family’ could extend to many hundreds if not thousands of people! Apologies to anyone close who feels left out. I am pleased to say that everyone I asked was kind enough to offer a contribution, so here is one survey that can claim a 100 per cent response rate.
Peter Beresford
The author, born 1 May 1945
Educated Wix’s Lane Primary School Battersea, Emanuel School, Wandsworth, University College, Oxford, BA Hons, Middlesex University, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Brunel University, long-term user of mental health services, Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the disabled people’s and service users’ organisation and network
Maureen Beresford,
Born 24 May 1942
My sister, educated Wix’s Lane Primary School and Clapham County Grammar School, Clapham, lived her adult life in New York
Worked as a secretary/personal assistant
Died 2000
The Honourable Mrs William Beresford
Née Ida Kaufman (also known as Kaye)
Born 23 May 1909
My mother, born of immigrant Jewish parents, East End, London, first cousin of Sally Gould, left school aged 14
Milliner in East End sweat shops until her marriage Met my father in 1934
Died 1990, Trinity Hospice, Clapham
(Tape recorded interviews 1989*)
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- All our WelfareTowards Participatory Social Policy, pp. 367 - 376Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2016