Chris Grover - The Social Fund 20 Years On: Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security

Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security

CHRIS GROVER
Lancaster University, UK

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing

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Grover, Chris, 1967
The Social Fund 20 years on : historical and policy aspects of loaning social security.
1. Social security--Great Britain. 2. Social security--Great Britain--History. 3. Economic assistance, Domestic--Great Britain. 4. Government lending--Great Britain.
I. Title
362.5820941-dc22

Grover, Chris, 1967-

The social fund 20 years on : historical and policy aspects of loaning social security / by Chris Grover.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7866-3 (hbk)

1. Social security--Great Britain--History. 2. Public welfare--Great Britain--History. 3. Income maintenance programs--Great Britain--HIstory. I. Title.

HD7165.G764 2010

361.941--dc22

2010048847

ISBN 9780754678663 (hbk)

There are many people to whom I would like to extend my thanks. I have spent many days at various archives and would like to thank staff at them for helping to make the research process as painless as possible. I would also like to thank Dame Ann Bowtell and Jonathan Tross for helping me to get to grips with the Fowler Reviews of social security. There are many people at Lancaster University that, in various ways, made the book possible. The research upon which The Social Fund 20 Years On is based would not have been possible without funding from Lancaster Universitys small grant scheme. Thanks also to my colleagues in the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University who covered my teaching and administrative duties during my sabbatical leave in 2009 when much of the book was written. Thanks to Linda Piggott of the Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University who read a draft manuscript and to John Stewart (formerly of the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster) for his thoughts on some of the early work upon which the book is based. The comments of the referee for the book proposal were also very helpful in sharpening its focus. However, responsibility for the books content and shortcomings rest solely with me. I would also like to thank Steve Bell for his permission to use a cartoon about the Social Fund from 1988 on the front cover of this book. Finally, I would like to thank my partner, Karen, for putting up with yet more piles of papers at home and for her love and support in all that I do.