No 50: Why do high rates of poverty and economic inequality persist in the UK?
by Karen Rowlingson The UK is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet levels of poverty and economic inequality are extremely high. […]
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No 40: How the social protection system can fail the self-employed
by Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter Rachel Mantell, a self-employed management consult, earns more than £100,000 per year, can afford to spend £6,000 on holidays, […]
No 38: What we can learn from Scotland’s approach to social security
by Ruth Patrick Too often, we are told that welfare traps people in dependency, discouraging individuals from making the right choices, and enabling a culture […]
No 30: Disabled people’s independence: the underfunding and commodification of support
by Kirstein Rummery Social policy has always distinguished between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ in responses to need. When the post-war welfare settlement was decided, the […]
No 24: Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system
by Sarah Batty ‘Putting the security back into Social Security’ was the title of a series of national solution-focused workshops held in 2017 in which […]