Tag: social policy
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Free School Meals for All London Pupils
All primary pupils in London schools are going to get Free School Meals from September 2023 according to an announcement from the Mayor of London on Monday. This new policy will cost £130 million, save the average family £440 a year and benefit around 270 000 children. In an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme…
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Generational Inequality Keeps Growing…
Government policies favour the old and harm the young
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Policies to Combat Racism in Schools
Education policy to combat racism has gone from ignorance, through assimilation, integration, multiculturalism to aggressive majoritarianism in 2022.
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Why is the Birth Rate in England and Wales Declining?
The latest statistics rom the ONS show that half of all women now remain childless until they are 30, which reflects a longer term trend of declining birth rates in England and Wales. In fact, birth rates have been declining for around 10 years now, previous to which they had been increasing, but why is…
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Possible in Real Life?
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. This might be a novel, but it’s a useful way to introduce social policy and the family! It’s also an example of a type of secondary qualitative data! The novel is set in the United States and imagines a future where the…
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Social Policy and the family in Global Context
How do policies on family life vary from country to country? This post explores some of the cross national variations in policies on the following aspects of family life: Marriage Divorce Benefits for single parents Maternity and paternity pay Gay marriage This post should be relevant to the social policies topic within the A-level sociology…
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Timeline of Social Policies which changed childhood
Below is a timeline of some of the social policies which changed childhood, from the early 19th century through to the present day. Most people would adopt a ‘March of Progress view‘ and argue that these polices improved the lives of children, however there are some sociologists who see these policies as placing too many…
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The consequences of cutting bursaries for student nurses…
Cutting free tuition and bursaries for student nurses seems to be a good candidate for the one of the worst social policy decisions of the decade… The NHS is currently critically short of nurses, with 42 000 posts in England unfilled. This seems to be due to a decision by the Tory party in 2015…
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How does social policy affect family life – Summary Grid
A summary grid of how five social policies might affect different aspects of family life. Designed to help students revise for A-level sociology – the families and households topic. Picture below and then text version after! Policy First Thoughts – How might this policy affect family life in the UK? More specifically will this support…
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£100 Million Extra to Combat Homelessness – Simply not Good Enough?
The British government recently announced an additional £100 million of funding to tackle chronic homelessness in Britain. Chronic homelessness means those sleeping rough on the streets, rather than much larger numbers of invisible homeless: consisting of people in temporary accommodation or sleeping on friends’ couches. The additional funding will pay for a three pronged ‘attack’…
