Table of Contents

Global developments in social policy research - Ruggero Cefalo, Marcia Rose and Andy Jolly

Part 1: Intergenerational research

1. Intergenerational research, policy and practice for sustaining social care in the UK: current challenges and future aspirations - Lois Peach, Lena Sakure, Mirain Llwyd Roberts, Stephanie Green and Kate Howson

2. An intergenerational divide in the context of COVID-19? - Lizzie Ward and Stephanie Fleischer

3. Impacts of substance use across generations: exploring how the risk of problem substance use can be impacted by locus of control - Penelope Laycock

4. COVID-19 and intergenerational equity: can social protection initiatives transcend caste barriers in India? - Akanksha Sanil

5. Two levels of agency: the negotiation of intergenerational support in Chinese families - Jiaxin Liu

Part 2: Research developments in social policy analysis

6. The impact of COVID-19 on the residential care sector for the elderly: employment and care regimes in the European comparative perspective - Marco Arlotti and Stefano Neri

7. Curating Spaces of Hope: exploring the potential for Faith Based Organisations in uncertain times - Matthew Barber-Rowell

8. The ‘Innovative Job Agency’: an experiment in renewing local social services in Pisa (Italy) - Elena Vivaldi, Andrea Blasini and Federico Bruno

9. Inequality within equalities: an institutionalist examination of equalities interest groups engagement in a third sector-government partnership - Amy Sanders

Part 3: Policy developments

10. Homelessness and the coronavirus - Hilary Silver

11. A Cultural Political Economy case study of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund: critiquing welfare policy in the reproduction of subordination and inequality - Eve Yeo and Joe Greener

12. Unmet need, epistemic injustice and early death: how social policy for Autistic adults in England and Wales fails to slay Beveridge’s Five Giants - Aimee Grant, Gemma Williams, Kathryn Williams and Richard Woods

About the Author

Ruggero Cefalo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna.

Marcia Rose is a youth worker, creator of Creative Wellbeing4u and new PhD candidate in social policy, sociology and criminology.

Andy Jolly is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Plymouth.

Reviews

"Social Policy Review is essential reading for everyone interested in key contemporary debates in a wide range of social policy fields. This latest edition offers illuminating insights from across the world in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of inequality in its various forms." Elke Heins, University of Edinburgh
"The wide range of issues covered by this volume reflects the diverse challenges social policies are facing across the globe and contributes to a context-sensitive understanding of the underlying mechanisms (re)producing inequalities or tackling them." Yuri Kazepov, University of Vienna