Understanding Social Change - Audio podcast

Promoting welfare - the government's role

3/11/2009

Understanding Social Change - Audio

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Intention of the Labour government to counter social exclusion by promoting employment through enabling state. Considering family as area of continuity but forms of family are more varied. Has the welfare system caught up with this change in family structure?

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