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| Public and private welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999 | | Author(s) | Rachel Smithies |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2005 |
| Pages | 39 pp (CASEpaper 93) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Local Authority ; Private enterprise ; Public expenditure ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the UK is analysed. Five sectors - education, health, personal social services, housing and income maintenance - are examined over three time points, 1979/80, 1995/96 and 1999/2000. Burchard's typology (Boundaries between public and private welfare, 1997) is used to classify welfare activities according to who funds them, who provides them, and who decides on the providers and/or amount of service. It is found that shifts in the composition of welfare activity have been relatively small and gradual: around half of all welfare activity, dropping from 52% to 49%, is entirely public; around a quarter, rising from 24% to 29%, is entirely private; and the remainder involves a mixture of both sectors. Within the latter group, there was a notable increase over time in the contracting-out of public services, which rose from 6% to 10% of all welfare activity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050421205 B |
| Classmark | I: L: PE: W4D: WN8: 3J |
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