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Working the social fund

Robert Walker, Gill Dix and Meg Huby ; with the assistance of Anne Corden and Marilyn Thirlway ; Social Policy Research Unit, University of York

(Research report (Department of Social Security), no. 8)

HMSO, 1992

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume does not purport to be a complete evaluation of the social fund. Rather, it provides a description of how the social fund was operated by DSS local offices in the first three months of 1990. The material is nevertheless relevant to some recurrent themes in the history of official attempts to respond to exceptional financial needs of low income families: the meaning and use of discretion; the idea of "genuine need"; the possibility of fairness; the patterns of local variation and differential access; administrative complexity; and the difficulty of containing expenditure.

Table of Contents

  • Styles of operation
  • local office priorities
  • making decisions
  • social fund reviews
  • money advice
  • perceptions of the social fund.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA35192863
  • ISBN
    • 0117619523
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    v, 60 p.
  • Size
    30 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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