Abstract
The paper analyses several key features of the changing landscape of modern welfare states, the major the social forces driving this change, and how change is pertinent to the future of social work practice. The social forces driving change include structural factors such as the demographic transition and globalisation of the economy, as well as sociopolitical variables that involve an understanding of the unanticipated effects of social policies and the increased value attributed to the private sector. The central characteristics of change include a shift in policies away from the protection of labor and toward the promotion of work and the increasing use of the private sector for the production and delivery of social services. The privatisation of social welfare and its implications for social work practice are examined in the light of the challenges in negotiating service contracts.
Highlights
One of the reasons for increased spending is that a200 cy-reforms have shifted responsibilities for social pro- demand for social benefits continued to rise partictection among government, citizens, and the private ularly in response to the aging of the population in Social Welfare Trends in Western Societies: privatisation and the challenge to Social Work sector, in many if not most of the advanced industri- the OECD countries
I have described this development as security scheme introduced in 1889 was a good deal a shift from the welfare state to the enabling state for the state, since workers paid into the system until (Gilbert, 2004)
Two of these approaches seek to promote greater private financing through providing tax incentives and exercising the regulatory power of government; two other approaches aim to increase private involvement in the production and delivery of social services through the use of vouchers and contractual arrangements for outsourcing services; and one other approach involves a public/private partnership in which private investors put up the initial financing to produce and deliver a social service; they are reimbursed with a profit if the service is shown to be effective in achieving measurable outcomes
Summary
One of the reasons for increased spending is that a200 cy-reforms have shifted responsibilities for social pro- demand for social benefits continued to rise partictection among government, citizens, and the private ularly in response to the aging of the population in Social Welfare Trends in Western Societies: privatisation and the challenge to Social Work sector, in many if not most of the advanced industri- the OECD countries. The growth of rate of those 65 and over in Spain will rise from 17% to 25% between and 2030, and is estimated to reached 34% by 2050.Looked at another way by 2050, among the OECD countries Spain will have the 4th highest ratio of the aged population to those in the labour force with almost one worker supporting one retired citizen. This creates a tremendous fiscal pressure on the Taking a step back in time we can recall that the period from 1960 to roughly 1980 has been referred to as the Golden Era of welfare state expansion. Adapted from Gilbert, N. (2004), table 2.1, p. 44
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