Social policy encompasses the study of social needs, policy development and administrative arrangements aimed at improving citizen wellbeing and redressing disa

Social policy affects everyone and is everyone's business. Even if you do not receive welfare payments, directly or indirectly you benefit from government servi

Guides students in how to analyse the impacts of social policy, and how to develop and advocate for better social policy in the future. Paul Smyth, University o

In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We canno

The first book to examine social policy in the post-welfare state. It looks critically at the idea of the welfare state, analysing the changing concept of welfa