Teaching activity
Podcast recommendation: BBC World Service (Welfare State)
Sarah Best
28th March 2019
The following short podcast explores the role of the welfare state.
Students could be asked to listen to the podcast for homework and discuss in lesson for the Families and Households unit (as well as a general review of poverty). Other themes that could be used include links to the New Right (Theory and Methods).
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