Individual responsibility and welfare contractualism: a relational evaluation

<p>Jobseekers Agreements are just one type of behaviour management contract. Other contemporary examples include home-school agreements, youth offender contracts, and parenting contracts.</p> <p>The prevailing economic recession is leading to widening social inequalities and increa...

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Hlavní autor: Vincent-Jones, P
Další autoři: The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Médium: Report
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Foundation for Law, Justice and Society 2009
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Shrnutí:<p>Jobseekers Agreements are just one type of behaviour management contract. Other contemporary examples include home-school agreements, youth offender contracts, and parenting contracts.</p> <p>The prevailing economic recession is leading to widening social inequalities and increasing the potential for unfairness in the formation and implementation of welfare contracts.</p> <p>If the state cannot guarantee fairness and reciprocity in Jobseeker’s Agreements, together with minimum levels of social inclusion and equality, the pretence of ‘contract’ in current welfare policy should be abandoned.</p>