Social Policy Review 28 ─ Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2016

Published in cooperation with the Social Policy Association, Social Policy Review is an annual volume that draws together international scholarship at the forefront of research on social policy. This edition provides a diverse overview of the best in social policy scholarship, with specially commissioned reviews of crucial pension, health care, conditionality, and housing debates. A themed section on personalized budgets examines the introduction and consequences of funding personalization in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Norway and considers the impact of such funding on vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the homeless.

Menno Fenger is associate professor of public administration at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.John Hudson is a senior lecturer in social policy in the Department of Social Policy & Social Work at the University of York.Catherine Needham is a reader in public policy and public management at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham.