Kirstein Rummery
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Publisher
Policy Press
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on comparative research from five countries, What Works in Improving Gender Equality provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can achieve it by adapting best practices in care policies from other countries. Realistic policy solutions are reached by examining the contexts in which childcare and longterm care policies are developed, and what difficulties...
Publisher
Policy Press
Pub. Date
2025.
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As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address the inadequate and unequal provision of care and support to older and disabled people. This book represents the first collective effort to use the concept of care poverty to analyse unmet needs and inequalities in care at an international level and from a social policy perspective. It presents pioneering empirical studies and novel theoretical and methodological approaches...
Author
Publisher
Policy
Pub. Date
2002
Description
UK government policy encourages 'partnerships'- between statutory organisations and professionals, public and private sectors, with voluntary organisations and local communities. But is this collaborative discourse really as distinctive as the Labour Government claims?