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‘One of the most ill-defined, neglected and yet vital parts of the Welfare State’.1 This recent assessment indicates something of the paradox of the services for individual welfare, most usually known as the personal social services. On the one hand, they are concerned with the vital individual experiences of dependency, risk and need: conditions that potentially threaten everyone. On the other hand, they represent one of the more marginal and residual sectors of the postwar welfare state. The purpose of this chapter is to assist future analysis by providing a broad survey of its changing organisation, nature and scope over time. First however, a working definition is required.
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Gladstone, D. (1999). Renegotiating the Boundaries: Risk and Responsibility in Personal Welfare since 1945. In: Fawcett, H., Lowe, R. (eds) Welfare Policy in Britain. Contemporary History in Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27322-5_3
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