Oxford Scholarship Online: Welfare State Change

Welfare State Change Towards a Third Way? Lewis, Jane Barnett Professor of Social Policy, University of Oxford Surender, Rebecca University Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford Print publication date: 2004 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926672-2 doi:10.1093/0199266727.003.0009
9 The Implications of Third Way Social Policy for Inequality, Social Cohesion, and Citizenship Hartley Dean Focuses on the UK and argues that the Labour Government has had firm ideas about both how social provision should look, and what the state can and cannot do about it. It suggests further that there is a serious tension between ideas and principles informing policies and ideas about the role of the state, and that this tension signals a more fundamental conflict–present at the EU level also–between welfare ends and market means. The chapter illustrates these arguments with reference to the development of childcare policy in the UK. Keywords: childcare, core ideas and principles, governance, policy goals, role of the state, doi:10.1093/0199266727.003.0009