Social Fund in UK Law
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Squeezing the Social Fund: Aggravation and Advocacy
The Social Fund has been operating since 1988, following the abolition of entitlement to Single Needs Payments. NAPO, supported by ACOP, provided guidance to members on dealing with the discretiona...
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THE SOCIAL FUND AS AN EXERCISE IN RESOURCE ALLOCATION
The social fund is the latest attempt to cope with the exceptional needs sometimes experienced by people in receipt of social assistance. It is also the first occasion when resource allocation deci...
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From the social fund to local welfare assistance: Central–local government relations and ‘special expenses’
In Britain since the 1930s social assistance recipients have in certain circumstances been able to claim ‘exceptional expenses’ in addition to their weekly benefit income. From the 1940s these were...
- THE SOCIAL FUND—CASH‐LIMITING SOCIAL SECURITY
- Below the Breadline: The Social Fund, Poverty and Social Work
- Deadline date for Letters in the June issue is May 1 st Milking the Social Fund Dry
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The Children's Fund and the prevention of crime and anti-social behaviour
Early intervention prevention programmes form a significant element in the UK's complex and sometimes contradictory youth justice system. This article focuses on one...
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The UK Cabinet Office has opened a consultation on a new 10m £ risk capital investment fund for social enterprises.
...The UK Cabinet Office has opened a consultation on a new 10m £ risk capital investment fund for social enterprises. Proposals for operating the fund include a "pathfinder investment scheme" under which the government's 10m £ investment would be mat......
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European Support for People with Disabilities
Examines the financial provisions of the European Social Fund (ESF) for people with disabilities, in the United Kingdom. Provides some quantification of funds provided for the period 1990‐1992 and ...... ... , UK This article examines the financial provisions of the European Social Fund (ESF) for people with disabilities, in the United Kingdom. It ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviews in this article: GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED (BBC REITH LECTURES 1983) Douglas Wass. MANIPULATING THE MACHINE: CHANGING THE PATTERN OF MINISTERIAL DEPARTMENTS 1960–83 Christopher Polli...... ... that is hostile to public provision and supportive of 'social market arrangements' involving privatization. Naturally enough, both ... Hoyle Trunsport Zoo0 THE OPERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND Doreen Collins Croom Helm, 1983. 144pp. €12.95. Policy papers ... ...
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