Abstract
The political centre of gravity of social policy has shifted to the Right since 1979 when the Conservative government came into office. Assumptions about how much welfare the state should provide were modified during the New Right Conservative government and not restored when New Labour came to power in 1997. There is a question about how much further these assumptions will move, now that Labour has achieved a second landslide victory in June 2001, as it begins its second term in office, with a stated commitment to invest in the public services of education and health and work towards the abolition of child poverty.
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Giddens, A. (1998) The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy, Polity Press, Cambridge
Lewis, G., Gewirtz, S. and Clarke, J. (eds) (2000) Rethinking Social Policy, Open University, Buckingham with Sage, London.
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Adams, R. (2002). Future Trends. In: Campling, J. (eds) Social Policy for Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80178-3_12
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