Social Policy Association Annual Conference
University of Surrey Roehampton
18 - 20 July 2000 

Futures of Social Policy and Practice?
Provisional Programme

Tuesday 18th July

10.30 a.m. - Registration

10.00 - 12.00 - SPA Executive Meeting - Bailey Room 

12.00 - 1.30  - LUNCH

1.45 - 2.00 - Welcome - Chapman Conference Centre

2.00 - 3.00 	Paper Session 1


Comparative A
Gough  Welfare regimes in developing countries
Bar-On Social Protection in Botswana: going against world trends

Comparative B
Manning Copenhagen + 5 (the UN Social Summit, 2000): what should be done about the social costs of transition in Eastern Europe?
Thomson Regional Welfare System Developments in Russia: A case study

Education and Employment A
Skevik and Terum  Lone Parents from Welfare to Work: Whose welfare? What work?
Cousins and Michel  Work, Welfare and Incentives in Britain and Sweden: present policies and future dilemmas

Education and Employment B
Hutton and Seavers Financial support and risk in early adult life

Family
Clarke and Prophet  Grandparents in Britain: who are they and what is their role in supporting families?

Social Movements
Strange  British Trade Unions and European Union Integration in the 1990s: Politics versus Political Economy
Cowen and Johnson  Migrant Minority Communities as Consumers and Producers of Welfare Services; The Case of Britain's Jewish Welfare Services.

Governance of Welfare
Prior  Protective Europe: Does it exist for people with mental disorders?
Randall  European Citizens and Union Health Policies: Pushing back the frontiers - the politics of health and supranational regulation.

Using Welfare
Aris and Hague Empowerment and accountability: domestic violence survivors and new policy and service development
Parker and Morley 'She said she didn't believe me': Accounts of local authority homelessness interviews from women escaping domestic violence.

Delivering Welfare A
Fitzpatrick  Before the Cradle: the relevance for social policy of genetics, genetic engineering and biotechnology.
Hewitt  Human Nature and the Future of Welfare under New Labour

Delivering Welfare B
Harbinson and Offer  Welfare as Virtue: R.M. Titmuss, New Labour and the Re-engagement of idealist thought.
Singh  Reconsidering Institutional Racism

3.10 - 4.10	Paper Session 2

Comparative A
Chen 'Peaceful society' - can the state depend on voluntary organisations for welfare provision in Taiwan?
Kuo The development of social assistance as an issue of contral-local relations in Taiwan: a case study of income support for the elderly

Comparative B
Gori Care Allowances for the elderly in Italy: new features and challenges
Blackman Social care and complexity: cross-national comparisons

Education and Employment A
Wright  Jobcentre Vacancies and Employment Service Targets - Policy in Practice
Mulberg  Cash for Answers: The association between local government finance and school performance tables.


Education and Employment B
Glover Women's representation in the 'natural' scientific professions: policy implications
Ellis Women in Science: What's their problem?

Family
Auer  The relationship of paid work and parenthood - practices, structures and developments in the United Kingdom and Austria
Dean and Shah  Delivering Welfare to working families.

Social Movements
Heidensohn  Sexual Politics and Social Control
Carabine  Constituting Immoral Welfare Subjects Through Sexuality and Poverty

Governance of Welfare
Adler and Henman  Socialsecurity.com: Administration of Social Security in the 21st Century
Dixon  The Market Provision of Mandatory Social Security: Global perspectives on protecting the public interest in perpetuity.

Economics of Welfare
Evandrou and Falkingham  Will the 1960s baby boomers be better off than their parents in retirement?
Falkingham and Zaidi  As good as it gets? Income and income mobility in later life.

Using Welfare
Gunn  Young people's participation in social services policymaking.
 Ridge 'Fitting in' and 'joining in', addressing the needs of children in poverty.

Delivering Welfare A
East  'Regenerating health in communities': voices from the inner city
Morton Converging Research and Practice at the Local Level: Some tensions and conflicts.

Delivering Welfare B
Clarke and Rummery Integrating health and social care: lessons from experience
Harris, Qureshi, Patmore, Bamford and Nicholas Choice & Control; key concepts in outcomes research

Research, Policy and Practice Links
Arnull A literature review of 'Partnerships'. Constructing a hypothesis for their evaluation.
Ellis  Not Just a Job: the experiences of receiving and providing personal care in the new mixed economy of care.

4.00 - 4.30 - TEA

4.30 - 5.30 	Plenary 1 
 Will Hutton, Industrial Society, - Chapman Conference Centre


5.30 - 6.30  Parallel Sessions 
	
a) Symposium - Governance of Welfare
Professor Ilona Ostner
John Clarke
Stephen Driver (Discussant)

b) 'Meet the ESRC' - Catrin Roberts
	
c) Jo Campling Introductory Session


6.30 - 8.00 - Publishers Reception
		LTSN Launch

6.45 - 7.45 - DINNER 
           (Table reserved for Post-graduates)

7.30 - 8.15 - Post-graduate Reception - Senior Common Room


8.15 - 9.15  Special Interest Groups
	
a) Women and Social Policy - Judith Glover and Louise Livesey
b) Participatory Research - Lorraine Radford
c) Current work within the ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE - John Hills, Director and other members of CASE


9.15 - 11.30/12.00 	BAR
9.30 Film - Buena Vista Social Club















Wednesday 19th July

7.30 - 8.30 - BREAKFAST

8.00 onwards - Registration

9.15 - 10.15  Paper Session 3

Comparative A
Wailes and Ramia Globalisation, institutions and interests: frameworks for analysing comparative social protection, and the case of Australia and New Zealand

Comparative B
Ackers The impact of retirement migration on family resources and informal care arrangements
Dwyer Movements to some purpose? Making use of welfare systems and elderly migration in Europe

Education and Employment A
Nilsson Students are people (in poverty) too!
Riddell A Flexible Gateway to Employment? Disabled People and the Employment Service's Work Preparation Programme in Scotland

Education and Employment B
Fitzpatrick (Suzanne) and Kennedy Employment as a Route to Inclusion?: The Perspectives of Homeless People Begging and Selling the Big Issue in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Blackmore A New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Portsmouth?

Family
Edwards et al Step-fathering: Comparing policy and everyday experience in Britain and Sweden
Giullari Support or (in)dependence? Rethinking the significance of kin in delivering welfare.

Social Movements
Wiles  "People Be Good" (John Ruskin)
Graham Social welfare in black communities: organisations, groups and black churches as sites of cultural and social empowerment.

Governance of Welfare A
Daly Citizenship, Public Accountability & Partnerships in Community Care
Powell and Exworthy Snakes and Ladders of Partnership: A Framework for Examining Inter-Agency Working



Governance of Welfare B
Lister Towards a Citizens' Welfare State: the three 'R's of welfare reform
Bochel and Bochel New Labour's Modernisation of UK Government: the Social Policy Dimension

Using Welfare
Huang Domiciliary Care for Elderly People Living Alone in Taiwan: An analysis of needs and services
Phillips  Demographic and Socio-economic Influences of Physical Activity Among Older Men and Women: Implications for health promotion.


10.15 - 10.45	COFFEE

10.30 -  Guided tour around Alton Housing Estate, significant to social policy with regard to planning, housing and architecture.

10.45 - 11.45	 Paper Session 4

Comparative A
Stratton and Udolph Following welfare reform in America
Carpenter Community care in mental health: success and failure in comparative perspective

Comparative B
Dowling and Bengtsson An empowering approach to measuring quality in social services in Denmark and England
Revauger European social policy in the making: the end of French exceptionalism?


Education and Employment
Brown and Cole Employment Keyskills Programmes for Ex-offenders: Deconstructing the Myths
Hester and Taylor The use of learning labs in modernising government: creating new initiatives?

Family
Wilkie The CSA Experience - co-operation or confrontation and coercion?
Waddan Redesigning the Welfare Contract in Theory and in Practice:  Just what is going on in the USA?




Governance of Welfare A
Greener The changing language of policy in the NHS: the 1972, 1989 and 1997 White Papers compared.
Keithley The NEDs' Dilemmas: Non-executives and the Governance of the NHS

Governance of Welfare B
Ginsburg The Demunicipalization of Council Housing
Buchanan Best Value: one 'C' short of the Third Way

Economics of Welfare
Pahl Theories about Money - Implications for Policy
Mann and Groves The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Different Faces of Agency in Social Security Fraud

Delivering Welfare A
Pierson, Smith and Worley Local Participation and 'New Deal for Communities'
Petchey The Primary Care Act pilots: Trojan horse or side-show?

Delivering Welfare B
Gray Job search and benefits in the year minus one; claimants' views from four countries

Research, Policy and Practice Links
Hall Demystifying the jargon: Using plain language in action research
Alcock  Case Studies of Voluntary Action: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice

Welfare Professions and Professionalization
Denny  Violence against professionals - professional cultures and socialisation process
Hollows Social Workers making judgements: contradictions in the development of welfare professionals?

11.55 - 1.00  Plenary 2 

Bob Holman, Community Worker and Writer,  'Local Action in Deprived Neighbourhoods' - Chapman Conference Centre



1.00 - 2.00 - LUNCH







2.00 - 3.00   Paper Session 5


Education and Employment B
Osler and Watling "In the best interests of the child"?  Unofficial exclusions from school.

Comparative A
Aspalter Social Policy in East Asia and its future: taking the examples of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China
Hester A comparative approach to policy development - reflecting on activities against violence against women in China and the UK

Comparative B
Brockman Women and caring: the organisation of long-term care for older peole and the outcomes for family carers in Germany and britain
Wang Promoting the right to work of disabled people? A comparative policy study in Sweden, Britain and Taiwan

Education and Employment A
McKechnie, Stack and Hobbs Child Employment and Poverty in Britain
Link What About the Children?  Learning from US Welfare Reform

Welfare Professions and Professionalization
Postle 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold' Rethinking Social Work with Older People for the 21st Century
Gunaratnam and Lewis Negotiating 'Race' and Space: spatial practices, identity and power in the narratives of health and social welfare professionals

Family
Wilson Tolerating 'Pretended Families' For This, We Are Grateful?
Selman Mixed Messages:  Teenage Pregnancy and Social Policy in Britain and the United States

Governance of Welfare
Thomas The Cons and Pros of Performance Indicators
Cope, Goodship, Kendall and Goddard The Urge to Control: Regulating the New Governance

Using Welfare
Armes Enablement and Exploitation: The contradictory potential of community care policy for mental health service users
Shaw Primary Care Psychiatry: Managing difficult patients.



Delivering Welfare
Rummery A citizenship and social exclusion issue?  Access to health and social care for older people under New Labour
Means, Morbey and Smith Delivering Welfare for Older People, 1971 - 93: The Development of the Mixed Economy in Four Contrasting Social Services Authorities

Research, Policy and Practice Links
Pearce, Williams and Galvin Finding Young Women's Voices in Sheffield: Research with young women exploited through prostitution
Pearce, Williams and Galvin Finding Young Women's Voices in Tower Hamlets: Research with Young Women exploited through prostitution


3.10 - 4.10   RAE - Susanne MacGregor - Chapman Conference Centre

4.00 - 4.30   TEA

4.15 -  Another opportunity to catch the guided tour around Alton Housing Estate.

4.15 - 5.30 	JUC Meeting

4.30  - 5.30  Special Sessions and Interest Groups

		a)  SSP 2000 - Chris Middleton
b) 'Involving Welfare Service Users in Social Policy: Taking the issue forward'  - Peter Beresford, Ruth Lister
c) Comparative Social Policy - Rob Sykes
d) 'Challenging Racism' - Lena Dominelli
e) 'Recognising Citzenship' - Stuart Duffin - Senior Common Room
		

5.30 - 6.30 - AGM

6.30 - 7.30  - RECEPTION
7.30 - 		CONFERENCE DINNER
10.00 - 10.30 - After dinner entertainment - Comedienne, Linda Smith

9.00 - 11.30/12.00 BAR















Thursday 20th July 


7.30 - 8.30 - BREAKFAST

8.00 onwards - Registration

9.00 - 10.00   Paper Session 6

Welfare Professions and Professionalization
Manthorpe  Money under the Mattress...Policy and Professional Practice
Hill The Fall of the Local Authority Social Services Department?

Family
Wasoff and Dey Duty and the bad dads: reflections on "good enough" parenting by non-resident fathers
Featherstone Big Daddy, Big Brother: New Labour and the Politics of Fatherhood

Social Movements
Caldwell Why do People Join Local Exchange Trading Schemes?
Robson and Begum Under Pressure: exploring the issues faces by user-led organisations

Governance of Welfare
Gould Institutional and Cultural Resistance to Welfare Change in Sweden
Taylor-Gooby Giddens, New Labour Ideology and Welfare

Using Welfare
Bloch The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers: A policy anomaly
McGauley "Drug use and Social Policy, normalisation and its implications"

Delivering Welfare
Davis and Fernandez  What gains and losses would follow from the most efficient utilisation of care in homes and in the community?
Davis and Fernandez  Making Community Care Work Better, but for Whom? What Conflicts of Interest between Stakeholders Imply about Choices of Strategies for Efficiency Improvement 
Davis and Bauld  Caring for Older People: Key Findings from the PSSRU's Study of Community Care Services in the 1990s

Research, Policy and Practice Links
Duke Evidence-based policy-making?: research utilisation and the development of prison drugs policy
Thistlethwaite Evidence-based social care: improved access to research is not likely to make much difference.


Education and Employment
Pringle Developing an anti-oppressive welfare model: A Nordic or English future?
Ainley 'Learning Policy'

10.00 - 10.30 - COFFEE


10.15   - 11.45    Symposium on Family Policy

   Professor Selma Sevenhuijsen
   Professor Julia Brannen, Thomas Coram Research Unit (Discussant)
   Dorit Braun , Parentline
   Helen Wilkinson, DEMOS 

10.30 - 11.45     Learning Teaching Support Network Workshop 
'Shaping the SWAP-LTSN Agenda' - Jackie Rafferty
   Chapman Conference Centre


11.55 - 1.00 - Plenary 3 - Marju Lauristin  - Chapman Conference Centre
		Social Reforms as a Part of Post-Communist Transition

1.00  - 3.30  JSP Editorial Board Meeting - Bailey Room/QB150 

1.00	LUNCH
Jackie Brown
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Surrey Roehampton
Southlands College
80 Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5SL
UK
Tel 020-8392-3011
Fax 020-8392-3518
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