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Part one: Current developments ~ Ian Greener: Education policy and policy making, 1997-2009 ~ Clyde Chitty; Children's social care under New Labour ~ Mary Langan; Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? ~ Sally Ruane; Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts ~ Paul Bridgen; Prize-winning paper: Minimum income standards and household budgets ~ Chris Deeming; Part two: Current issues and debates ~ Chris Holden: Reconnecting with 'what unemployment means': employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis ~ Colin Lindsay; Facing the 'dark side' of deregulation: The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis ~ Steffen Heinrich; Flexibility, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK ~ Gary Craig; Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala's social policy ~ Elena Gaia; Part three: Service user involvement ~ Majella Kilkey: Service users and social policy: challenging dominant discourses ~ Peter Beresford; Participation and social justice ~ Marian Barnes, Colin Gell and Pat Thomas; Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities ~ David Abbott; Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people's 'well-being' through participatory action research ~ Charlie Cooper; Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? ~ Rachel Harding, Grahame Whitfield and Neil Stilwell

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