Social Fund 20 Years On
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Author_Chris Grover
British social policy
Budgeting Loans
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Discretionary Payments
Discretionary Sf
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Financial Exclusion
financial exclusion research
Fowler Reviews
historical development of social fund loans
Income Poor People
JSA
means-tested benefits
Mining Lockout
Poor Law
Poor Law Authorities
Poor Law Unions
Poor Relief
Poorest People Money
poverty alleviation history
SB Recipient
Sf Loan
Social Assistance
Social Assistance Claimants
Social Assistance Entitlement
Social Assistance Policy
Social Fund Loans
Social Security Policy
Special Expenses
Supplementary Benefit
supplementary benefit loans
Supplementary Benefit Scheme
Victorian Poor Law
welfare policy analysis
Product details
- ISBN 9780754678663
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context. There is a particular need to engage with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security policy. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Grover provides the reader with evidence that this is not the case by locating Social Fund loans in a lengthy history of debate about, and practice in, loaning poor relief and social security. Using primary data hitherto unused in social policy research, Grover shows that there is a long history embedded in British systems of poor relief of authorities having the power to loan applicants either cash that had to be repaid or providing food and items, the value of which then had to be repaid. Understanding this history will give a greater depth to our understanding of the state's purposes in relieving the financial needs of the poorest people as well as to our knowledge of contemporary social security policy.
Dr Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK
