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Job done? Can welfare reform and social mobility end child poverty?

Job done? Can welfare reform and social mobility end child poverty?. Ruth Lister Emeritus Professor of Social Policy Loughborough University & member of the House of Lords. Outline. The child poverty strategy ‘Welfare’ reform Social mobility. Child poverty strategy.

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Job done? Can welfare reform and social mobility end child poverty?

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  1. Job done? Can welfare reform and social mobility end child poverty? Ruth Lister Emeritus Professor of Social Policy Loughborough University & member of the House of Lords .

  2. Outline • The child poverty strategy • ‘Welfare’ reform • Social mobility

  3. Child poverty strategy • Lessons to be drawn from the progress made so far. • Broad consensus around multi-faceted strategy. • Disagreement around symptoms & causes. • Impact of wider public spending cuts – failing the new ‘family test’.

  4. ‘Welfare’ reform • Projected reduction in child poverty as a result of universal credit outweighed by impact of other cuts. • Question mark over achievement of goals of simplification, reducing ‘welfare dependency’ & making work pay. • Localisation agenda: • Negative impact of devolution of responsibility for council tax benefit & part of social fund, as well as cuts; • Continued importance of local authorities’ role.

  5. Social mobility • Government’s life-cycle approach • The philosophical & evidence-based case against making social mobility the ‘primary goal’ of social policy. • Greater equality as the goal.

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