Ending child poverty : : Popular welfare for the 21st century? / / ed. by Robert Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Tony,; Blair, Tony,; Butler, Lord,; Cross, Simon,; Deacon, Alan,; Giddens, Anthony,; Golding, Peter,; Grand, Julian Le,; Harris, Jose,; Hills, John,; Holman, Bob,; Kellner, Peter,; Lister, Ruth,; Piachaud, David,; Plant, Raymond,; Toynbee, Polly,; Walker, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Walker, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing child poverty within 20 years. He concluded that the present-day welfare state is not fitted to the modern world, and laid out his vision for a welfare state for the 21st century. Blair's vision, grounded in a particular conception of social justice, is perhaps as challenging as the blueprint laid down by Beveridge. Ending child poverty presents Blair's Beveridge Lecture alongside the views of some of Britain's foremost policy analysts and commentators. This unique collection makes it possible to not only read the ideas of leading current thinkers in this critical area of policy, but also to compare them with the Prime Minister's lecture, and to see which ideas he himself took up and in what form. Ending child poverty is a record of not only the Lecture itself, but also of the ideas available to government and their influence on its leader at an important moment in the formation of policy. It provides a rich tapestry on analysis, insight and reflection that will, it is to be hoped, stimulate critical debate about the future shape of British welfare. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of modern society and politics and provides an accessible handbook for undergraduate students of politics, social policy and sociology.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Welfare for the 21st century -- Introduction -- Beveridge revisited: a welfare state for the 21st century -- Contributions -- Beveridge and the Beveridge Report – life, ideas, influence -- Beveridge and the 21st century -- Beveridge and New Labour: poverty then and now -- Modern social justice -- Notes on social justice and the welfare state -- Social justice -- Conceptions of social justice -- Equality of access -- The balance of rights and responsibilities within welfare reform -- Social justice into practice -- The New Right and New Labour -- A modern party of social justice: achievements and missed opportunities -- Social security: a cornerstone of modern social justice -- Making welfare work -- The new welfare -- Responses -- A poor press? Media reception of the Beveridge Lecture -- Dimensions of the debate: reflections on the Beveridge Lecture -- Further reading -- Index