Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy

by Bill Jordan, Charlie Jordan, Bill Jordan

The New Labour government in the UK is committed to a programme of reform of the welfare state that will pull away safety nets and replace them by trampolines, to bounce citizens back into active participation. Its regime of ′tough love′ will make more demands on those claiming benefits and services, as well as clamping down on dependencey, fraud and crime. This will be done by changing the culture of welfare agencies, towards promoting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761967214
• ISBN13: 9780761967217
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"