The social fund 20 years on historical and policy aspects of loaning social security - Grover, Chris (Ashgate, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Enter Loans: The Act to Amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor 1819; 3 Loaning Poor Relief; 4 Industrial Conflict and Poor Relief on Loan; 5 The Crossman Review of Loaning Supplementary Benefit; 6 Loaning Supplementary Benefit and Strikes; 7 The Fowler Reviews, Special Expenses and the Antecedents of the Social Fund; 8 Social Fund Loans: Consistencies and Concerns; 9 Social Fund Loans; 10 Relieving Need? Social Fund Loans in Operation; 11 Social Fund Loans and Financial Inclusion; 12 Conclusion; Postscript
Chris Grover critically reflects on the introduction of the Social Fund and its operation in the past two decades, engaging with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security policy. Using primary data hitherto ignored by social policy research, he locates Social Fund loans in a lengthy history of debate about, and practice in, loaning poor relief and social security. Understanding this history will give a greater depth to our understanding of the state's purposes in relieving the poorest people as well as to our knowledge of contemporary