The Battle for Social Policy

Published by Social Policy Forum, May 2012

Contents
About the contributors 4

Chapter 1: Introduction 6
Dave Clements

Chapter 2: Remaking citizens: from the
Big Society to behaviour change 8
Kathryn Ecclestone

Chapter 3: Doing it for charity? 16
Dave Clements

Chapter 4: Should schools be engines of
social mobility? 19
Sally Millard

Chapter 5: Radical surgery for the NHS?
What is a GP’s role today 24
Bríd Hehir

Chapter 6: Sick-note Britain? Is a
dependency culture making us ill? 27
Martin Earnshaw

Chapter 7: Conclusion 34
Martin Earnshaw4

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Time to be charitable towards ‘chuggers

Better a street in which face-to-face fundraisers are free to annoy us than one in which they have been banned.

Radical Surgery for the NHS? What is a GP’s role today

Proposals in the recent Health Bill to change the role of GPs have been among the most contested of all the coalition’s policies.

Building a wall between adults and children

The vital interactions between one generation and the next are being hampered by overblown fears of ‘stranger danger’.

Patient-centred healthcare: the right to choose?

The Coalition government’s July 2010 White Paper Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, promises that ‘patients will be at the heart of everything we do’. They will have ‘choice of any provider, choice of consultant-led team, choice of GP practice and choice of treatment.’

Liberating the NHS?

The most anticipated Department of Health White Paper for some time, was published in July 2010. Entitled, Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS it sets out the Government’s long-term vision for the future of the National Health Service. It places patients ‘at the heart’, in charge of making decisions about their care. This means focusing on clinical outcomes instead of bureaucratic targets and ‘empowering’ health professionals to give those on the front line, such as GPs, more control.

Protecting the vulnerable or creating a climate of mistrust?

My contribution to Who's risk is it anyway? 
An Institute of Ideas and Wiltshire Council Safeguarding conference. 
March 2010

Cast your mind back to December 2008 and the Old Bailey trial of Baby P’s abusers.