Policy futures – learning from the past?

The annual conference from the Social Policy Association.

The theme of the conference is ‘Po­licy futures – learning from the past?’ The dramatic world financial developments of late 2008, and the certainty of a UK General Election in the next 18 months, mark out the present times as ones of change and reappraisal for social policy. The marketplace for new ideas, often less anchored to traditional ideological and party divides, is vigorous; and yet there is a sense that older social policy values and priorities that had been suppressed in easy economic times are making a comeback.
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