Social policy : now and then
By: WILDING, Paul
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, December 2009Social Policy & Administration 43, 7, p. 736-749Abstract: This article explores the way aspects of our approach to social policy in the UK have changed over the last 40 years one academic lifetime and also, coincidentally, the lifetime of this journal and the significance of six particular changes. More social problems have come to be seen as having a supra-national dimension: the scale and ramifications of problems are much better appreciated; the accepted territory of social policy has greatly widened; the state has lost people's confidence; we have come to see organizational and management issues as much more important; and the health of the economy has come to be regarded as a greater priority than the development of systems of social welfare.
This article explores the way aspects of our approach to social policy in the UK have changed over the last 40 years one academic lifetime and also, coincidentally, the lifetime of this journal and the significance of six particular changes. More social problems have come to be seen as having a supra-national dimension: the scale and ramifications of problems are much better appreciated; the accepted territory of social policy has greatly widened; the state has lost people's confidence; we have come to see organizational and management issues as much more important; and the health of the economy has come to be regarded as a greater priority than the development of systems of social welfare.
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