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Governments are always under pressure “to deliver” and stories of implementation failures make good headlines. Consequently those involved in policy implementation confront “the central paradox of control and autonomy...How to balance the requirement for public accountability with consumer responsiveness...How to avoid performance becoming conformance with targets at the expense of broader goals” (Barrett,2004:260). Implementing Social Policy explores the issues facing those who are responsible for delivering human services, both within and outside government by exploring issues involved in working across government departments or levels of government; the mechanisms by which governments purchase service delivery from non-government organisations and the impact of contractual arrangements on non-government service providers and service users, as well as the impact of values and ideas on what is delivered and how it is delivered. The course also considers the changing nature of welfare conditionality in Australia and overseas, which raise questions of what the state owes its citizens and what citizens owe the state. At the conclusion of the course students will have the opportunity to design their own delivery mechanism for a social program.
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