"The provision of state funded and democratically accountable care services represents one of the most potentially transformative advances in gendered social relations and equality for women by 'defamilizing' care and providing paid work. But the cost of providing these services, which women...

This book discusses local area planning in the Lombardy region of Italy. The book provides valuable insights about the development of local welfare systems and the territorial organization of social services through the analysis of the evolution of the Local Area Plan, which lies at the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The structuration of the Italian welfare system: from fragmentation to innovation -- Chapter 3: A (possible) answer to fragmentation in social assistance policy. The Local Area Plan -- Chapter 4: Redesigning territorialisation to improve planning and...