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30 November 2017 - The Action final publication Social Services Disrupted published by Edward Elgar is out - OPEN ACCESS
The Action final publication Social Services Disrupted published by Edward Elgar is out - OPEN ACCESS.
Social Services Disrupted
Changes, Challenges and Policy Implications for Europe in Times of Austerity
New Horizons in Social Policy series
Edited by Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen and Margitta Mätzke
Edward Elgar 2017
OPEN ACCESS: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781786432100.xml
The book conveys the main findings of the COST Action IS1102 ‘Social Services, Welfare States and Places. The restructuring of social services in Europe and its impact on social and territorial cohesion and governance’, coordinated by Flavia Martinelli at the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria from 2012 to 2016. The digital version of the book is OPEN ACCESS, i.e. can be freely accessed and downloaded on the publisher’s website at: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781786432100.xml
The book is structured in five parts and 19 chapters (see Table of contents below). It aims to revive the discussion on public social services and their redesign, with a focus on services relating to care and the social inclusion of vulnerable groups. It provides rich information on the changes that have occurred in the organisation and supply of public social services over the last thirty years in different European contexts and service fields. Despite the persisting variety observed in social service models across countries and regions, three shared trends emerge: public sector disengagement, ‘vertical re-scaling’ of authority and ‘horizontal re-mix’ in the supply system. The consequences of such changes are evaluated from different perspectives – users’ satisfaction, governance, social and territorial cohesion, labour market, gender – and are eventually deemed ‘disruptive’ in both economic and social terms. The policy implications of the restructuring are also explored.
The book should appeal to a broad audience: scholars and students, policy makers, civil servants, service providers, social workers and civil society organisations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen and Margitta Mätzke
PART 1. CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS
1. Social services, welfare states and places. An overview
Flavia Martinelli
2. The European Union policy framework for social services. Agendas, regulations, and discourses
José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Stefania Barillà and Ivan Harsløf
3. Public policy conceptions. Priorities of social service provision in Europe
Margitta Mätzke, Anneli Anttonen, Peter Brokking and Jana Javornik
PART 2. THE TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNANCE
4. Social services in post-industrial Europe. An incomplete success story and its tragic moments
Ingo Bode
5. The vertical division of responsibility for social services within and beyond the State. Issues in empowerment, participation and territorial cohesion
Stefania Sabatinelli and Michela Semprebon
6. The horizontal ‘re-mix’ in social care. Trends and implications for service provision
Bettina Leibetseder, Anneli Anttonen, Einar Øverbye, Charles Pace and Signy Irene Vabo
7. The ‘activation turn’ and the new horizontal division of labour at the local level. The case of social assistance services in Austria, Belgium, Norway and Switzerland
Peter Raeymaeckers, Bettina Leibetseder, Robert Fluder, Erika Gubrium and Danielle Dierckx
8. Care in the wake of the financial crisis. Gender implications in Spain and the United Kingdom
Blanca Deusdad, Jana Javornik, Rosa Mas Giralt and Raquel Marbán-Flores
PART 3. RECENT TRAJECTORIES IN CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE
9. Care for older people in early twenty-first century Europe. Dimensions and directions of change
Teppo Kröger and Angela Bagnato
10. How marketisation is changing the Nordic model of care for older people
Anneli Anttonen and Olli Karsio
11. The de-institutionalisation of care for older people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. National strategies and local outcomes
Kateřina Kubalčíková, Gábor Szüdi, Jaroslava Szüdi and Jana Havlíková
12. Care for older people in three Mediterranean countries. Discourses, policies, and realities of de-institutionalisation
Blanca Deusdad, Sagit Lev, Charles Pace and Sue Vella
PART 4. LOCAL INITIATIVES, SOCIAL INNOVATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
13. The Janus face of social innovation in local welfare initiatives
Liisa Häikiö, Laurent Fraisse, Sofia Adam, Outi Jolanki and Marcus Knutagård
14. Social innovation in the field of Roma inclusion in Hungary and Austria. Lessons to foster social cohesion from Thara and Tanodas
Carla Weinzierl, Andreas Novy, Anikó Bernát, Florian Wukovitsch and Zsuzsanna Vercseg
15. The social inclusion of immigrants in the United Kingdom and Italy. Different but converging trajectories?
Rosa Mas Giralt and Antonella Sarlo
16. Housing and neighbourhood. Basic needs, governance and social innovation
Peter Brokking, Marisol García, Dina Vaiou and Serena Vicari
PART 5. SOCIAL SERVICES DISRUPTED. CHALLENGES AND SCENARIOS
17. Challenges and dilemmas in the provision of social services
Anneli Anttonen
18. The role of the state in the development of social services
Margitta Mätzke
19. Social services disrupted. Changing supply landscapes, impacts and policy options
Flavia Martinelli