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. B...

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