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This is the introduction to Issue 125, which honors Radical Teacher editorial board member Saul Slapikoff and explores the theme of critical creativity in his work and other essays that appear in the issue.

Review of High Schools, Race, and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community by Lawrence Blum

From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ; History: epub 2021-06-22, issued 2021-06-22, ppub 2022-01-02 ; Article version: VoR ; Publication status: Published

From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ; History: epub 2021-06-22, issued 2021-06-22 ; Article version: VoR ; Publication status: Published

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Critical and Radical Social Work. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Carey, M., & Bell, S. (2020). Universal credit, Lone mothers and poverty: Some context and challenges for social work with children and families. Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(2), 189-203 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204986020X15945756252756 ; Universal Credit is a streamlined benefits delivery system initially introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2008. Conditionality-based welfare policies are increasingly international in scale, and are now widely adopted by neoliberal governments on the basis that paid employment offers the most efficacious route out of poverty for citizen-subjects. Numerous studies suggest otherwise, and highlight their negative impact upon the social rights, lived experiences, and attempts to alleviate poverty for service users. This article analyses the reformed benefit system and wider workfare policies effect upon lone mothers, including as a consequence of engagement with an ever more stigmatizing benefit system, and associated risks posed by sanctions or precarious low-paid employment. It highlights some of the consequences for social work with children and families of Universal Credit: including ongoing tensions and challenges created for the profession by the punitive policies of the workfare-orientated centaur state.

Universal Credit is a streamlined benefits delivery system initially introduced in the UK in 2008. Conditionality-based welfare policies are increasingly international in scale, and are now widely adopted by neoliberal governments on the basis that paid employment offers the most efficacious route out of poverty for citizen-subjects. Numerous studies suggest otherwise and highlight their negative impact upon the social rights, lived experiences and attempts to alleviate poverty for claimants. This article analyses the effect of the reformed benefit system and wider workfare policies upon lone mothers, including as a consequence of engagement with an ever-more stigmatising benefit system, and associated risks posed by sanctions or precarious low-paid employment. It highlights some of the consequences for social work with children and families of Universal Credit, including ongoing tensions and challenges created for the profession by the punitive policies of the workfare-oriented centaur state.