The Costs of Welfare Book

	Social Policy Association
	Contributors
	Tables and Diagrams
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Introduction: the costs of welfare - an overview	1
1	Paying for welfare: issues for the nineties	13
2	Does the Treasury have a social policy?	29
3	Managing to survive: dilemmas of changing organisational forms in the public sector	46
4	Next Steps: restructuring the Department of Social Security	64
5	Paying for or providing welfare?	87
6	User empowerment and buying community care: reflections on the emerging debate about charging policies	107
7	The restructuring of welfare and social services users: what's in it for them?	128
8	Payment for caring - mapping a territory	149
9	Rationing versus choice: tensions and options. Cash and care for disabled and older people and their carers	165
10	The NHS reforms: managing the market in health care	183
11	Thinking long in community care	200
	Bibliography	240