Table of Contents

Preface, Contributors, Introduction: change, continuity and welfare, 1 The welfare state and the state of welfare, 2 Education: the changing balance of power, 3 Employment policy: a chronicle of decline?, 4 Spending more to achieve less? Social security since 1945, 5 Health: from seamless service to patchwork quilt, 6 Housing: on the edge of the welfare state, 7 Urban policy in post-war Britain, 8 Individual welfare: locating care in the mixed economy, 9 Voluntary action and the state, 10 Markets and the future of welfare, 11 Social policy and the active society, 12 Accountability and empowerment in welfare services, 13 Quality in welfare services, Bibliography, Index