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Delivering Social Welfare

Delivering Social Welfare. Social Agendas and the Future. Discussion. In just off the plane from Wales, someone explain American Healthcare Who gets it? Who pays for it? What about education, school and college? American checkbook stories. What is social welfare?.

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Delivering Social Welfare

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  1. Delivering Social Welfare Social Agendas and the Future

  2. Discussion • In just off the plane from Wales, someone explain American Healthcare • Who gets it? • Who pays for it? • What about education, school and college? • American checkbook stories

  3. What is social welfare? • Dual meaning of social welfare • Wellbeing of citizens of a state • Private and public programs to alleviate social problems through specific policies and programs • Second is designed to increase the first • Not to be confused with state welfare (or social security) • Welfare state is governmental apparatus for addressing social problems • Sometimes used disparagingly • For others (socialists) it is a model for universal and guaranteed human wellbeing • Economic model associated with John Maynard Keynes (1930s) • ‘The middle way’ • ‘Swedish model’

  4. Key areas of Social Welfare • Healthcare • Education • Education Income Support • Unemployment benefit • Pensions • Supplementary income • Tax breaks (Students; OAPs; low income earners) • Other areas • Social services • Social workers • Disability and elderly care • Emergency services • Fire, paramedics, police • Public services • Parks • Cleaning • libraries

  5. “Our Welfare State” • Differing attitudes to welfare and the welfare state define cultural and social differences between US and Europe • “Europe’s welfare states arise from . . . Core European values and the European settlement. They define Europeanness. They are non-negotiable European realities” (Will Hutton, quoted in TR Reid, 2004) • “Social rights cannot depend on the voluntary goodwill of others. . . . The welfare state, enforced by law, is a defining feature of Europe” (James Wickham, cited in Reid) • European Social Model is ‘Cradle-to-the-Grave’ • Egalitarian • Expensive • Results: lowers poverty levels, higher life-expectancy; improved quality of life?

  6. Norwegian Family Story Quality of Life • Not measured in GDP • Free from fear of health costs • Feeling of providing for children regardless of income • Family values • Norwegian family: P. 153 Reid

  7. Saving the Welfare State in Europe • Margaret Thatcher made Britain question welfare state in the 1980s • Issues of efficiency, cost, choice • Appealed to British class consciousness • Rise of private healthcare alternatives • Drain from NHS: doctors, nurses, social resources • New levels of healthcare • Private rooms • More treatments available (at a price) • ‘New Labour’ party (Blair) unable (unwilling) to reverse pattern

  8. EU-ropean Welfare State? • Welfare standards are not uniform across the EU • Welfare is not instituted or funded through EU • Consistent with EU principle of subsidiarity • To be dealt with at national level (for now) • “Core” European value: akin to universal or ‘natural’ human rights • Brussels sets the minimum • Fiscal challenges across the EU, even Sweden, challenging this model

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