Impact

Based on 'Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US' by Paul R. Ketchum and B. Mitchell Peck, this policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations, including a holistic approach to reforming policing departments and the need to abolish programs which target minority youth.…Read more

Oscar Berglund and Elizabeth A. Koebele, Co-Editors of the Policy & Politics journal, talk about the latest special issue – ‘Transformational change through public policy’.…Read more

Fran Amery discusses the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on access to abortion and how the work done by grassroots organisations like AidAccess and Women on Web will have a vital role to play moving forward.…Read more

The current economic and political system is broken. Neoliberal ideas and practices that have dominated politics for the last 40 years has undermined democratic accountability. Stephen McBride explains how only institutional changes in our economy and politics can lead to a sustainable future. …Read more

Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Karen Rowlingson, Chair of the Social Policy Association, about their collaboration with Policy Press to promote the discipline of social policy, and in turn tackle today’s most important social challenges and problems.…Read more

Based on 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement' by Jade Levell, this policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations including a dramatic rethink on the ways in which children are supported both during and after an abusive adult perpetrating DVA is present in their lives. …Read more

In January 2022 the New York Times podcast Serial brought the story of the Trojan Horse Affair back to public attention. This case study shows how John Holmwood and Therese O’Toole’s book 'Countering Extremism in British Schools?' explores the response to the scandal.…Read more

Based on Hidden Voices by Joe Whelan, this policy briefing recommends setting welfare rates at a rate above the poverty line, reframing and reconstituting welfare as a valuable and necessary social good, and moving approaches to welfare away from being sanction based. …Read more

An impact case study of 'Re-imagining Child Protection' by Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris, highlighting the resonance the book had for those working within both policy and practice spheres.…Read more

Marking ten years of the Critical and Radical Social Work journal, Michael Lavalette tells the story of the emergence of the radical social work movement and the Social Work Action Network, and the role the journal has played in this.…Read more