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EIGHT YEARS OF NEW LABOUR
Commissioning Editor for this issue: Pete Alcock, University of
Birmingham
In this issue:
EDITORIAL
From social security to social inclusion: the changing policy climate
Pete Alcock, University of Birmingham
ARTICLES
Delivering on the pledge to eradicate child poverty
Paul Dornan, Child Poverty Action Group
Welfare to work: New Labour's 'employment first' welfare state
Dan Finn, University of Portsmouth
Disability: rights, work and security
Marilyn Howard, Social policy analyst
Killing us softly with their words? Retirement pensions and New Labour
Kirk Mann, University of Leeds
Inequality and redistribution under New Labour
Tom Sefton, London School of Economics and Political Science
Asylum policy under New Labour
Alice Bloch, City University and Liza Schuster, University of Oxford
New Labour<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s social justice: as good as it gets?
Robert M. Page, University of Birmingham
RESEARCH ROUND-UP
University of Leeds
Meeting basic needs? Exploring the welfare strategies of forced migrants
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Labour<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s welfare reform: progress to date
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Routes out of poverty
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and
Political Science
Poverty and inequality and social policy in China
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and
Political Science
Income mobility in older age in Britain and Germany
Department for Work and Pensions
Encouraging take-up: awareness and attitudes to Pension Credit
IN PRACTICE
Innovative take-up success in Herefordshire
Mike Fry, Herefordshire Council
From fount to facilitator: supervision in welfare rights
Steve Bewick, Rochdale Council
POLICY REVIEW
Social policy and the benefit system since 1997: a view from within
government
Jonathan Portes, Department for Work and Pensions
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Strategy reports
Social security
Select Committee reports
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
Benefits administration
Benefits fraud
Benefits information
Carers
Child Support
Council Tax Benefit
Disability benefits etc
Fuel poverty
Housing Benefit
Pensions and pensioners
Welfare to work
Income Support
BOOK REVIEWS
Lister (2004) Poverty, Reviewed by Chris Goulden, Joseph Rowntree
Foundation
Didier Fouarge (2004) Poverty and subsidiarity in Europe: Minimum
protection from an economic perspective, Reviewed by John Veit-Wilson,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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