Advantages and Limitations of Social Policy Making

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What are the advantages and limitations of the different ways that social policy is made?"
Introduction
All over the globe, the societies are the evaluating, reforming and remaking their social welfare
policies. The new approaches are being sought for managing and financing these policies, and
new methods are created which change the relative roles of government, private organisations
and people (Tomlinson, 2005). This type of change has brought up spirited debate regarding the
relative advantages and disadvantages of different methods of structuring the social policies.
Social policy is related to the care, development and welfare of persons in the society in relation
to a set of principles which the society lays down to attain. Occasionally these standards are
explained in the form of rights; though, usually they are the due to the historical progress of the
policies of competing political interests.
Social policy is a set of policies which governments utilise for or welfare and social safety, to the
level where in welfare is created in a society (Powell, 2016). So social policy is mainly about
social services and the welfare situation, it covers various problems going much ahead of the
activities of the government which means those activities which encourage welfare and social
and economic situations which form the development of welfare.
In the past the social policies have been based on religious, scientific, ideological, racial and
philosophical changes and ideas (Baldock, 2012). The main basis of creating the social policy is
through the approach of achieving welfare. The major issue under this is the social services and
welfare of the state. The creation of social policy is dependent on the motive of improving the
welfare of people by, for example, fulfilment of their different needs. Therefore the social policy
is usually based upon the welfare of people in Healthcare, human services, criminal justice,
education, equality and labour. One more approach to create social policies includes government
mandates that all employers grant a few financial benefits to the staffs. In the workplaces also the
policies are created on the basis of experiences of policy makers, past and similar policies of
other offices, similarly the national policies are based on the past experiences and government
decisions for the welfare of the society.
Advantages
The advantages of welfare state for collective provision include: