By Jo Campling, Michael McCarthy
The foundations and price framework of the postwar welfare consensus have been known as into query with the overall election of 1979. This publication assesses advancements in key components of the welfare kingdom, offering a accomplished appraisal of the effect of Thatcherism. The members additionally research the clients for the 'new welfare' into the Nineties.
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And while in 1979 the emphasis might have been placed on increasing manpower in the inner city to curb urban crime, more than a decade later the need to assuage the growing anxieties of its 'natural constituency' in the shire counties has persuaded the Government that tackling thuggish and often drink-related behaviour in the villages and the larger market towns is of political, as much as social, importance. There is, moreover, much common ground in the present debate on the alleged surge in crime in the shires and the proposals put forward by the Party more than ten years ago.
The Secretary of State had reassessed Seebohm and found in it strong arguments for 'a wider conception of social services'. He saw this concept of 'enabling' as 'fundamental to the role of social services departments that I want to promote'. In announcing his intentions for a review of the personal social services, Mr Fowler's view was that society must increasingly look away from the state for the provision of care and must tap instead what he and his colleagues believed to be 'a great reservoir of voluntary and private effort'.
It is in the care of elderly and mentally handicapped people that Mrs Thatcher's governments have most clearly sought to demonstrate that the frontiers of state provision may be vigorously rolled back and the tasks and burden of care can be cheaply 're-exported' to the community itself. The old cliche that care in the community has become care by the community is amply proven. Savings might be made in the short-term and the Treasury may well utilise these to finance tax cuts and, in turn, to stimulate macroeconomic growth.