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Social Policy Forum

Social policy is apparently everywhere these days, embedded in everything from soap opera storylines to arts funding criteria. Yet, for all its pervasiveness in our culture, it is rarely discussed in its own terms. This is a problem because instead of policy makers trying to find ways to better meet people’s needs, they are more likely to be found promoting behavioural change or advocating intrusive interventions into people’s lives. The Social Policy Forum aims to challenge social policy by stealth, while taking a closer look at some key policy debates on everything from housing, social care and welfare, to the reforms of local government and public services.

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Working from home: is it working?

Behind the frontline

Knife crime: what’s going on?

Are we getting lonelier?

NHS in crisis… again

Inequality: the scourge of our age?

Sexting Teens: minor freedom or major problem?

Migration crisis: how should Europe respond?

Policy over a Pint: Transgender children

Is children’s mental health the next big epidemic?

Policy over a pint: Calling time on Working Mens’ Clubs

Out of the Ashes

Nudge-Plus

A crisis of caring?

Hand-out Britain?

Radical Surgery for the NHS? What is a GP’s role today

How not to defend public services?

Social Mobility and Education

Nudging towards a Big Society?

Must poor children become poor adults?

Cutting down the quango state

Is the Big Society good for society?

On the frontline?

Heartlanders or landlords? Can housing build communities or aspirations?

Designing behaviour and healthcare

Database State or Smarter Government?

Family intervention policies

The Public Sector Crisis: is Marketisation and Politicisation to Blame?

What role for the Third Sector?

The cut-price state: miserable austerity or freedom and accountability?

The Welfare State: What’s it for?

The “White Working Class”: forgotten victims, convenient fictions, or just like everyone else?

Inspiring Communities

The Future of Community: Reports of a death greatly exaggerated?