Subject(s): Social policy. -- Social planning. -- Nature of policy analysis : Skills, social science, role -- Policy process : Policy making, setting policy, policy cycle -- Strategic policy making : Structure of a policy analysis, strategic planning -- Aims, values and goals -- Assessing the environment I - qualitative interpretation : Checking existing sources, stakeholders, research methods, interpreting and processing qualitative data -- Quantitative interpretation - enumerations and censuses, need assessment -- Methods, constraints and resources : Government action, resources, decisions about methods -- Selecting methods- value for money : Effectiveness efficacy and value for money, distributive issues -- Analyzing implementation : Understanding implementation, administration, process evaluation -- Evaluation of policy : Summative and formative evaluation, , policy analysis- developing a checklist