Website of the UK Social Policy Association

The UK Social Policy Association (SPA)

The SPA is a professional association open for membership to academics and practitioners working in social policy, and to others with an interest in UK and international social policy.

These pages carry:

• news about the SPA and the social policy community
• information about conferences
• details of the benefits of SPA membership
• information on publications produced by the SPA

You can also:

• join our electronic mailing list (the social-policy jisc-mail list)
• find information about our small grants scheme
• view current membership of the SPA's Executive Committee

You might also find the following SPA supported sites of use too:

• Social Policy Digest (a fully-searchable and regularly updated source of information about current events across the whole social policy field)
• The SPA's International and Comparative Social Policy Group (ICSP) website
• European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) website
• The Scottish Social Policy Network (SSPN) website

This site is under continual development. If you have any comments or suggestions, please direct them to Stephen McKay the SPA Web Manager.