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Introduction: Intensive Family Support Services: Politics, Policy and Practice Across Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2016

Harriet Churchill  and
Robin Sen
Harriet Churchill
Affiliation:
Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield E-mail: [email protected]
Robin Sen
Affiliation:
Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield E-mail: [email protected]
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The last twenty years have seen major international developments in welfare state support and services for children, parents and families. Increases in provision occurred within established areas such as welfare benefits, family allowances, child welfare services and maternity leave entitlements; and new ‘forms and modalities of provision’ were introduced (Daly et al., 2015: 10), in particular parental and paternity leave entitlements; welfare-to-work programmes and active labour market policies; conditional cash support schemes; in-work subsidies for low income families; childcare and early education services; earlier intervention and prevention programmes; parenting and family support services; and inter-departmental, inter-professional and inter-agency models of service provision (OECD, 2009, 2011).

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Themed Section on Intensive Family Support Services: Politics, Policy and Practice Across Contexts
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 251 - 261
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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