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Implementing innovative social investment : strategic lessons from Europe /

The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood. This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baines, Susan, Bassi, Andrea, Csoba, Judit, Sipos, Flórián
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2019.
Colección:Policy Press scholarship online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIVE SOCIAL INVESTMENT; Contents; List of tables, figures, images and boxes; viiNotes on contributors; Acknowledgement; 1. Social Investment in welfare: a sub-national perspective; Introduction; Social Investment; Social innovation; The social economy; The Innovative Social Investment Strengthening Communities in Europe project; InnoSI case studies; Book structure; Part A: Children and families: early intervention in people's life courses
  • 2. Investing in the future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services systemIntroduction; Social innovation in ECEC services in Emilia-Romagna; Key findings: implementation and impact; Learning points and policy implications; 3. Troubled Families in Greater Manchester; Introduction; Turning around 'troubled families'; Key findings: implementation and impact; Learning points and policy implications
  • 4. Innovative voluntary and public sector partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, SwedenIntroduction; Gothenburg partnership: experimental Social Investment through new trust-based relationship; Innovative activities and services; Key findings: partnership service implementation and impact; Overcoming challenges and learning points; Conclusion; Part B: From a caring state to an investing state: labour market activation
  • 5. The Youth Guarantee and One-Stop Guidance Centres as a social innovation and a policy implementation tool in FinlandIntroduction; The Youth Guarantee and OSGCs as an innovative implementation tool in Finland; Implementation and impact of OSGCs on the national and local levels; Local-level implementation; Impact for beneficiaries and services; Lessons learned in the Social Investment context; 6. Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece; Introduction; Connecting unemployed vocational education graduates with the labour market
  • Key findings: implementation and impactLearning points and policy implications; 7. Network for the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Münster, Germany (MAMBA); Introduction; MAMBA as a reaction to policy change; Key findings: implementation and impact; Achievements, hurdles and setbacks; Conclusion: lessons learned and policy implications; 8. Labour market activation and empowerment of the homeless in Poland; Introduction; 'Assistance from A to Z': innovative homeless support; Key findings: implementation and impact; Learning points and policy implications