Ending child poverty : Popular welfare for the 21st Century

ENDING CHILD POVERTY......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Notes on contributors......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. Beveridge revisited: a welfare state for the 21st century......Page 18
Social change......Page 19
The record of the previous government – failure of the Right......Page 21
A modern vision of welfare......Page 23
What New Labour is doing in government......Page 25
The results of our reforms......Page 28
‘Popular welfare’ – part of New Labour’s vision for Britain......Page 29
The man and his career......Page 32
Beveridge and poverty......Page 34
The Beveridge Plan and its background......Page 35
Beveridge and New Labour......Page 36
Social policy has to be integrated with economic policy......Page 40
Social exclusion and investment in children......Page 41
A new form for a national minimum......Page 43
The welfare state has to be seen in an international context......Page 44
Beveridge and the causes of ‘Want’......Page 46
Defining poverty......Page 47
How the world has changed since Beveridge......Page 50
Nine features of poverty today......Page 51
New Labour and poverty......Page 54
6. Notes on social justice and the welfare state......Page 62
Context......Page 66
The critique of social justice......Page 67
Possible responses......Page 70
Social justice today......Page 72
Equality, social justice and poverty......Page 74
8. Conceptions of social justice......Page 76
Beveridge, 57 years on......Page 80
Equality of access......Page 82
10. The balance of rightsand responsibilities within welfare reform......Page 86
The New Deal for lone parents......Page 88
The introduction of ‘stakeholder’ and ‘second’ pensions......Page 89
Beveridge’s solution – social insurance......Page 90
The New Right and New Labour’s inheritance......Page 96
New Labour’s start in tackling social injustice......Page 97
Challenges and choices......Page 99
The centrality of social justice......Page 101
Tackling social exclusion and poverty......Page 104
Supporting and investing in families......Page 106
‘A new contract for welfare’......Page 107
Strengthening and extending citizenship......Page 109
The argument......Page 112
Advances in social justice......Page 113
Counter examples......Page 115
Opportunities......Page 118
The need for a new consensus......Page 122
The myth of social insurance......Page 123
The end of universalism......Page 124
A new emphasis on work......Page 125
The exception of Child Benefit......Page 126
The new welfare......Page 128
16. A poor press? Media reception of the Beveridge Lecture......Page 132
Reporting the mission – the real story......Page 136
Poverty – hard times to new times......Page 140
Visualising poverty: from the playground to the bedroom......Page 147
Conclusion: poverty and public debate......Page 148
17. Dimensions of the debate: reflections on the Beveridge Lecture......Page 150
Social justice......Page 151
Modernisation......Page 153
Popular welfare......Page 155
The modern vision......Page 156
Primary objectives......Page 157
Mechanisms......Page 159
Ending child poverty......Page 162
Omissions......Page 165
Dimensions of the debate......Page 166
Further reading......Page 170
Index......Page 174