Tom Burden is Principal Policy Analyst in the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Business School and is a former Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is consultant and tutor with the Open University and a member of the Executive Centre for Industrial Policy.

'Students could do no better than keep this volume with them. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide'

• 1. General explanatory perspectives2. Central concepts in social policy3. Perspectives on social policy development4. Social Policy Strategies5. Social policy issues6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain7. The diversity of welfare states8. The developed anglophone welfare states9. Globalisation and social policyReferencesIndex

Tom Burden is Principal Policy Analyst in the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Business School and is a former Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is consultant and tutor with the Open University and a member of the Executive Centre for Industrial Policy.

'Students could do no better than keep this volume with them. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide'

• 1. General explanatory perspectives2. Central concepts in social policy3. Perspectives on social policy development4. Social Policy Strategies5. Social policy issues6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain7. The diversity of welfare states8. The developed anglophone welfare states9. Globalisation and social policyReferencesIndex

Tom Burden is Principal Policy Analyst in the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Business School and is a former Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is consultant and tutor with the Open University and a member of the Executive Centre for Industrial Policy.

'Students could do no better than keep this volume with them. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide'

• 1. General explanatory perspectives2. Central concepts in social policy3. Perspectives on social policy development4. Social Policy Strategies5. Social policy issues6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain7. The diversity of welfare states8. The developed anglophone welfare states9. Globalisation and social policyReferencesIndex