A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights?

Where Next for the UK Post-COVID

Clair, Amy, Fledderjohann, Jasmine, Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Bran Knowles

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781447363842
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

With the ideological shift to neoliberalism and the introduction of austerity measures following the Global Recession, the UK has experienced divestment in the National Health Service, growing food bank use, increasing housing problems and growing inequities in access to digital services. These inequities have been both highlighted and compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Questioning the ideology that economic growth should be prioritised above all else, this book demonstrates that an alternative approach to social policy, based on human rights and social justice, is necessary to tackle the existing systemic inequalities brought to the foreground by COVID-19.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The right to medical care
• 3 The right to food
• 4 The right to housing
• 5 The right to necessary social services
• 6 Where next for social policy?
• Notes
• References