A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights?: Where Next for the UK Post-COVID

With the ideological shift to neoliberalism and the introduction of austerity measures following the Global Recession, the UK has experienced divestment in the National Health Service, growing food bank use, increasing housing problems and growing inequities in access to digital services. These inequities have been both highlighted and compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Questioning the ideology that economic growth should be prioritised above all else, this book demonstrates that an alter...