Social Policy Digest.

The article presents digest of social policies issued in Great Britain from February to April 2002. The article covers contents in "Social Policy Digest," for the period February to April 2002, written by Fran Bennnett with Ken Jones. The topics covered were social security and income maintenance, health, education, housing and environment, personal social services, law and the treatment of the offender, unemployment and the labor market, race relations, the voluntary sector, government, gender and sexuality and demography. Statistics quoted relate to Great Britain as a whole, years referred to are either a calendar year or reporting year to March 31 and percentage changes are based on annual comparisons. Income support claimants totaled 3.95 million, up 1.9 per cent. An above-inflation increase was announced in funding for community care grants in the discretionary social fund. The government must overhaul the social fund if it is to meet its target of eradicating child poverty.