Implementing innovative social investment : : strategic lessons from Europe / / edited by Susan Baines [and three others].

Brings the regional and local to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing original, evaluative evidence from ten European countries, and provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned.

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Superior document:Policy Press scholarship online
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Policy Press scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures, images and boxes
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgement
  • Social Investment in welfare: a sub-national perspective
  • Children and families: early intervention in people’s life courses
  • Investing in the future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services system
  • Troubled Families in Greater Manchester
  • Innovative voluntary and public sector partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, Sweden
  • From a caring state to an investing state: labour market activation
  • The Youth Guarantee and One-Stop Guidance Centres as a social innovation and a policy implementation tool in Finland
  • Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece
  • Network for the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Münster, Germany (MAMBA)
  • Labour market activation and empowerment of the homeless in Poland
  • Social solidarity and Social Investment
  • The creation of a socially diverse neighbourhood in Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Revitalising the self-sufficient household economy: the Social Land Programme in Hungary
  • Social Investment and the causes of energy poverty: are cooperatives a solution?
  • Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?
  • Index