Conclusion: The Big Society and Social Policy

New Labour's extended schools initiative added to existing models of community schooling. The paper identifies the key principles behind extended schooling, making comparisons with historical models and contemporary trends in community education. Part one examines New Labour's use of extended schools to deliver their social policy agenda. Part two focuses on alternative models of community schooling used in England and Scotland, suggesting alternative solutions to issues of social disadvantage and educational underachievement. Part three examines the European tradition of social pedagogy exploring the potential contributions it brings to educational and welfare practice in England given the new Government's approach to localism and the 'Big Society'.

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The Big Society: Post-Bureaucratic Social Policy in the Twenty-first Century?

The Political Quarterly ◽

10.1111/j.1467-923x.2011.02331.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 82 ◽

pp. 120-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

First Century ◽

Big Society ◽

Twenty First Century

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Outputs Reviewed: Neo-Liberalism

North East Third Sector Research Group Annual Digest ◽

10.19164/netsrg.v0i0.453 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

North East Third Sector Research Group

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Family Support ◽

Community Organizations ◽

Voluntary Organizations ◽

Welfare To Work ◽

Children's Services ◽

Big Society ◽

South Korean ◽

Children’S Services ◽

Society Project

Churchill, H. (2013). Retrenchment and restructuring: family support and children's services reform under the coalition. Journal of Children's Services, 8()3, 209-222Jackson Rodger, J. (2013). “New capitalism”, colonisation and the neo-philanthropic turn in social policy: Applying Luhmann's systems theory to the Big Society project. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 33(11/12), 725-741.Kim, S. (2013). Voluntary Organizations as New Street-level Bureaucrats: Frontline Struggles of Community Organizations against Bureaucratization in a South Korean Welfare-to-Work Partnership. Social Policy & Administration, 47(5), 565-585.

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‘Every Town Should Have One’: Emergency Food Banking in the UK

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s004727941200075x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 73-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 75

Author(s):

HANNAH LAMBIE-MUMFORD

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Policy Research ◽

Big Society ◽

High Profile ◽

The Social ◽

The Face ◽

The Uk ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

AbstractThis article charts the rise of one of the UK's most high profile forms of food banks: the Trussell Trust Foodbank franchise. Employing empirical data it seeks to embed the phenomenon of the growth of Foodbanks within a social policy research context. In the first instance, the role of recent and on-going shifts in the social policy context are examined, notably the importance of welfare diversification under previous Labour governments (1997–2010) and the current public spending cuts, welfare restructuring and Big Society rhetoric of the Conservative−Liberal Democrat Coalition government. The paper goes on to explore the nature of Foodbanks as emergency initiatives, providing relief and alleviation for the ‘symptoms’ of food insecurity and poverty. Data are presented which demonstrate some of the ways in which the Foodbank model and those who run the projects navigate the tension between addressing symptoms rather than ‘root causes’ of poverty and food insecurity. In the face of the simultaneous growth in emergency food initiatives and significant upheavals in social policy and welfare provision, the article culminates with an argument for social policy research and practice to harness and prioritise the human rights-based approach to food experiences.

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