Voluntary organisations and social policy in Britain : perspectives on change and choice

This text brings together contributions by British experts to examine the shifting relationship between welfare policy and the voluntary sector.

Taking into account the fundamental reassessment of the role of the state in welfare and the funding and organization of the delivery of health care, social services, housing and so on, it asks what the implications are for voluntary sector organzations and in what specific ways they are responding to their new expanded role.