Public and private welfare activity in England

Obolenskaya, Polina ORCID: 0000-0002-2571-2931 and Burchardt, Tania ORCID: 0000-0003-4822-4954 (2016) Public and private welfare activity in England. CASEpaper (193). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

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This paper is the latest in a series of publications documenting the shifting boundaries of private and public welfare activity for the years 1979/80, 1995/96, 1999/00 and 2007/08, and now 2013/14. It records who finances, delivers and controls expenditure within the different welfare sectors: Health, Social Care, Education, Housing, and Income Maintenance (including pensions). We find that during the most recent period between 2007/08 and 2013/14, there has been further decline in the proportion of welfare activity that is publicly funded, controlled and provided and an increase in the proportion of privately funded, controlled and provided activity – a continuation of the trend from the earlier periods. While there has been a significant real increase in the total welfare spending, it mostly was due to the rapid increase in the privately financed and provided welfare

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL:	http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Authors
Divisions:	STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology L Education > L Education (General)
JEL classification:	H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H40 - General H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H51 - Government Expenditures and Health H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H52 - Government Expenditures and Education H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2018 12:30
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 20:37
Funders:	Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, Trust for London
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86454

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