Social Policy First Hand is the first comprehensive international social policy text from a participatory perspective and presents a new service user-led social policy that addresses the current challenges in welfare provision.
A companion volume to Peter Beresford’s bestselling All our welfare, it introduces the voices of different groups of service users, starting from their lived experience. With an impressive list of contributors, this important volume fills a gap in looking at social policy using participatory and inclusive approaches and the use of experiential knowledge in its construction. It will challenge traditional state and market-led approaches to welfare.

Foreword by: Ruth Lister
Contributions by: Diane Richardson, Alison Faulkner, Mo Stewart, Charlotte Williams, Alison Faulkner, Sarah Yiannoullou, Helen Casey, Sue Sanders, Gary Bourlet, Kaliya Franklin, Michael Harris, George Julian, Nicky Lambert, Barbara Fawcett, Clenton Farquharson, Michael Lavalette, Joe Greener, Suzy Croft, Iain Ferguson, Jennie Fleming, Marianne Grbin, Tessa Morgan, Peter James Simpson, Sarina Pearson, Shuchi Kothari, Stella Black, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Merryn Gott, Lisa Williams, Sarah Lonbay, Deirdre O'Connor, Michelle Daley, Lucy Costa, Mary Wickenden, Nicola Yeates, Diana Rose, Shae Kermit, Stefan Zwickl, Suzanne Simpson, Lawrence Mitting, Adam Johnson, Kathy Boxall, Colin Clark, Navin Kikabhai, Tara Flood, Jane Young, Emily Roberts, Louca-Mai Brady, Colin Cameron, Margaret Alston, Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Danny Dorling