 |
 |
Cash and Care - Understanding the Evidence Base for
Policy and Practice
12-13 April 2005 Alcuin College, University
of York
INVITATION TO ATTEND
Across most developed societies,
traditional assumptions about the respective roles and responsibilities of
welfare states, families and individuals are being called into question.
Responsibilities for welfare are becoming fragmented between public and private
sectors; traditional relationships between welfare and paid work are being
challenged. Families are also changing in response to demographic and
economic pressures; and new ways of delivering individualised support are being
sought.
Together, these trends generate important new questions about:
Who is responsible for supporting ill or disabled children, adults and older
people. The roles of services and cash payments in providing support. The
tensions between paid employment and care-giving, and the consequences for
living standards, quality of life and social justice . How to respond
appropriately to differences of gender, ethnicity and other social divisions.
New policy responses are required to tackle these developing social challenges;
and these policies need to be underpinned by rigorous research
evidence.
This conference will present leading edge research in these
areas. In addition, a panel of eminent policy makers and practitioners
will debate the contribution of research to policy and practice.
Plenary
speakers include: Professors Jane Lewis (LSE), Peter Saunders (University of New
South Wales) and Kari Waerness (University of Bergen).
Keynote speakers
include: Professors Saul Becker, Caroline Glendinning, Hilary Land, Jan Pahl,
Jane Millar, Eithne McLaughlin, Tricia Sloper and Linda Ward.
Panel
members: Andrew Cozens (Immediate Past President of Association of
Directors of Social Services), Professor Ian Diamond
(Chief Executive, ESRC), Sue Duncan (Government Chief
Social Researcher, Cabinet Office) and Malcolm Wicks MP
(Minister of State for Work and Pensions).
This conference is sponsored
by ESRC, the Department of Health, and the UK Social Policy
Association.
For further information visit http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/cashcareconf.html
or contact Lisa Goode [log in to unmask]