Benjamin Goodair
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Goodair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodair |
| SIGNATURE | GOODAIR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Policy Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2619-7895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The epidemiology of violence against children in England, 1971-2024
BACKGROUND: Violence against children (VAC) is a major public health concern, yet persistent measurement challenges limit understanding of its epidemiology. Routinely collected administrative data, such as children entering care, represent an underused resource for measuring a subset of VAC serious enough to trigger state intervention. However, national analyses using these data have not been comprehensively updated since 2016, leaving evidence g…
Market failure in a universal welfare state? Ownership, quality, and regulation in Danish social services
Like many other countries, Denmark has recently seen a sharp increase in outsourced social service provision for children and adults. While quasi-market theory suggests that complex social services could be ill-suited to market provision, there has been little assessment of how ownership relates to service quality for welfare services due to fragmented data. This paper presents findings from a population-wide analysis of quality and inspection ou…
The case against outsourcing from healthcare services
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England
The increased private provision of publicly funded health and social care over the last 75 years has been one of the most contentious topics in UK public policy. In the last decades, health and social care policies in England have consistently promoted the outsourcing of public services to private for‐profit and non‐profit companies with the assumption that private sector involvement will reduce costs and improve service quality and access. Howev…
‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS
England's NHS is experiencing rising privatisation as services are increasingly being delivered by private healthcare providers. This has led to concerns about the supposed benefit of this process on healthcare quality but the reasons for the increase - and whether processes prioritise quality - are not well understood. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 people involved in the commissioning process, sampled from 3 commissioning sites (re…
Outsourcing and children's social care
Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well understood. This paper aims to address this gap by undertaking the first longitudinal and comprehensive evaluation of the associations between for-profit outsourcing and quality of service provision among English local authorities and children's homes. To enable invest…
Outsourcing and children's social care
Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well understood. This paper aims to address this gap by undertaking the first longitudinal and comprehensive evaluation of the associations between for-profit outsourcing and quality of service provision among English local authorities and children's homes. To enable invest…
Outsourcing and children's social care
Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well understood. This paper aims to address this gap by undertaking the first longitudinal and comprehensive evaluation of the associations between for-profit outsourcing and quality of service provision among English local authorities and children's homes. To enable invest…
‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS
England's NHS is experiencing rising privatisation as services are increasingly being delivered by private healthcare providers. This has led to concerns about the supposed benefit of this process on healthcare quality but the reasons for the increase - and whether processes prioritise quality - are not well understood. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 people involved in the commissioning process, sampled from 3 commissioning sites (re…
The case against outsourcing from healthcare services
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England
The increased private provision of publicly funded health and social care over the last 75 years has been one of the most contentious topics in UK public policy. In the last decades, health and social care policies in England have consistently promoted the outsourcing of public services to private for‐profit and non‐profit companies with the assumption that private sector involvement will reduce costs and improve service quality and access. Howev…
The epidemiology of violence against children in England, 1971-2024
BACKGROUND: Violence against children (VAC) is a major public health concern, yet persistent measurement challenges limit understanding of its epidemiology. Routinely collected administrative data, such as children entering care, represent an underused resource for measuring a subset of VAC serious enough to trigger state intervention. However, national analyses using these data have not been comprehensively updated since 2016, leaving evidence g…
Market failure in a universal welfare state? Ownership, quality, and regulation in Danish social services
Like many other countries, Denmark has recently seen a sharp increase in outsourced social service provision for children and adults. While quasi-market theory suggests that complex social services could be ill-suited to market provision, there has been little assessment of how ownership relates to service quality for welfare services due to fragmented data. This paper presents findings from a population-wide analysis of quality and inspection ou…
Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Outsourcing (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (2 works) · Healthcare Systems and Challenges (2 works)