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Beveridge rebooted
— social security for a networked age | | Author(s) | Ian Mulheirn, Jeff Masters |
| Corporate Author | Social Market Foundation - SMF |
| Publisher | Social Market Foundation, London, 2013 |
| Pages | 104 pp |
| Source | SMF, 11 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QB. Website: www.smf.co.uk Also available as download: http://www.smf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Pu... |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Services ; Social welfare ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Seventy years ago, the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services chaird by Sir William Beveridge (Cmd. 6404; HMSO, 1942) was launched to popular acclaim. Yet over the intervening 70 years, the descent from Beveridge has been total. Public attitudes have hardened towards unemployed people, and the political parties now compete to sound tough on 'scroungers'. These four essays explore this crisis of legitimacy in working age welfare. The policy options for what to do about financial support for the unemployed are examined. Should financial support be more generous or less generous? Or should we somehow revive the central plank of Beveridge's 1942 proposals, that is, benefits claimed as a right based on past contribution? The essays conclude with radical proposals for an entirely new direction of reform, putting social networks at the heart of the welfare system. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150514016 B |
| Classmark | JH: I: TY: TM2 |
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