Integrated models are the icons of a new welfare policy and practice in Australia, writes Paul Smyth.

In this report Rosanna Scutella and Paul Smyth describe the condition of Australian children today in six key dimensions of life. Each dimension reflects basic capabilities and opportunities that every child should enjoy, including good physical and mental health, literacy and numeracy, freedom from violence and abuse, and access to an adequate level of economic...

In the United Kingdom and the European Union, social policy is losing its economic rationalist spots at an increasingly rapid pace. Today a number of writers have been searching for a way to name just what it is that is taking its place. In this paper Daniel Perkins, Lucy Nelms and Paul Smyth introduce the...