... regarding the effect of ‘community safety’ issues on the two largest minority ethnic groups up to the election of the New Labour government of 1997, as background to developments since then. It considers the impact on minorities of the government's current approach to community safety. It concludes...

... of employment. The chapter notes that the social policy of New Labour can be typified by the proposition that ‘Work is better than welfare’. It argues that work continues to be premised on narrowly defined notions of wage labour, and with the longer-run drift to neoliberal policy underpinnings risks losing much...

...This chapter discusses the specific preventative policies and policy initiatives through which New Labour governments have sought to address the needs of young children and their families in the United Kingdom. Historically, policy understandings of prevention have drawn on service-led and needs...

... on child health and well being, and self-determination and decision making. The growing emphasis on highly targeted initiatives that has characterised the latter stages of New Labour's child and family policy suggests further implications for the way in which prevention is being conceptualised to address...

...This chapter reviews New Labour's social security and welfare reform policies. Blair achieved a ‘paradigm shift’ by putting ‘poverty’ back on the policy agenda. His pledge to eradicate child poverty was a major turning point in welfare reform, although the failure to achieve even the interim...

...This chapter examines risk scenarios that have been structured into New Labour policy discourses since 1997. It argues that the approach taken to risk by New Labour, although complex and sometimes contradictory, can be understood as a feature of late modernity. New Labour, like all governments...

...This chapter utilises the work of Hall (1993) and 6 and Peck (2004) to explore welfare conditionality under New Labour. Hall's (1993) discussion of policy learning and paradigm shift is useful for analysing the wider importance of the conditional welfare state that has been mapped out by the Blair...

...This chapter elucidates New Labour's understanding of ‘consumerism’. It draws heavily on Schon and Rein's concept of the frame. Frames can be understood as analytical devices that supply order and intelligibility to a complex, ever-shifting, and confusing world. The first part of the chapter...

..., the methods used in evaluation, and the relationship between the evaluator and those being evaluated. The application of a ToC approach to the evaluation of social cohesion is also considered. There is an important relationship between evaluator and ‘subject’ in ToCs. Under New Labour, evaluation's profile...

... and controversy ecstasy MDMA evidence hierarchy of evidence Johnson A Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 New Labour Nutt Prof D Smith J alcohol Class C drugs dependence drug harm Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 social harm Blunkett D Callinicos A Criminal Justice Act 2003 Economic and Social...

...This opening chapter presents and scopes the focus and argument of the book. Specifically, the use of leaders, leading and leadership by New Labour governments (1997–2010) as a strategic policy strategy for bringing about radical reforms to and within schools is outlined. The antecedence...

...Chapter 4 provided an explanation of how public institutions inter-relate with elite private interests. The processes by which people within and outside of government exchange knowledge, know-how and vouch for each other are through regimes of practice. Two regimes are identified: the New Labour...

... of New Labour governance and the potential seeds of transformative possibilities and radical democratic praxis contained with New Labour's approach. The chapter argues that there are two major barriers which prevent both imagining and auctioning an inclusive, holistic strategy for prostitution reform...

...This chapter critically considers the assumptions underlying policy proposals for sex-working drug users and drug-using sex workers in New Labour's prostitution strategy. It argues that by conflating sex work with other social problems, particularly drug addiction (see, for example, Cusick...

... a theme in critical engagement with New Labour's policy making for a number of years – especially in relation to criminal-justice policy. The chapter explores the final theme to arise from this book, which is the relationship between ‘policy’ or ‘regulation’ and ‘the problem’ of prostitution. child...

... immigration control Brexit New Labour General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS treaty Bulgaria Croatia Romania Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme Sector Based Schemes SBS Bulgarian citizens Byrne L Daily Mirror European Economic Area EEA Green D The Guardian Reid J Romanian citizens...

... Scarman Lord Suspected Person SUS laws unemployment Vagrancy Act 1824 Youth Training Scheme youth unemployment Lammy Review Lawrence Stephen Macpherson Lord Macpherson Report New Labour schools Single Regeneration Budget stop and searches Young Review academization policy Academy Trusts...

... by significant increases in the uses of imprisonment. This was partly because of the political fear of being seen as weak on crime – though the Blairite ascendancy meant that there was actually huge scope for manoeuvre – but also it reflected the fundamental communitarianism at the heart of New Labour...

...This chapter will explore four developments within the CJS system that occurred, from the 1990s onwards, under Conservative and New Labour administrations - Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), Joint Enterprise and the whole life tariff. The chapter begins with a discussion of the influence...

...This is the first of a two-volume work which provides an authoritative account of devolution in the UK since the initial settlement under New Labour in 1997. This first volume meets the need for a comprehensive, UK-wide analysis of the formative years of devolution from the years 1997 to 2007...