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
Part Two - The way to the future
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
We are tired of being statistics, cases, wonderfully courageous examples to the world, pitiable objects to stimulate funding.
(Paul Hunt, 1966a)In the first part of the book we saw the very limited role that people on the receiving end of social policy have tended to play in its conceptualisation, formulation and delivery. In this second part we are concerned with a very different approach to social policy, where they are at its centre. At the heart of this can be found people’s desire to speak and act for and organise themselves. If the social policy that we have had has mainly been the result of what some people have laid down for others, then what is offered here is the promise of future social policy that is shaped and owned by the people for whom it is intended. These ideas and proposals do not start from a blank sheet. There are many precedents and early examples. Together they offer a blueprint for changed participatory social policy as well as insights for how to achieve it.
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- All our WelfareTowards Participatory Social Policy, pp. 171 - 172Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2016