Social Policy and Poverty

What do governments do to sort out poverty?

Welfare state

What is it?a social system based on the assumption by a political state of primary responsibility for the individual and social welfare of its citizens(Merriam-Webster)

Are you for or aginst? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZkg0Z5oYI

3 MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES (England):http://www.youtube.com/webcameronuk?feature=relchannel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgtewTHldQ&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/user/libdem?feature=results_main What social policies do they support?

4 Main Approaches

• The New Right• Social Democrats• Labour/New Labour• Marxists

Timeline: UK governments after WW2

1945-1970’s: State controls and• provides assistance through the UNIVERSAL MODEL OF

WELFARE 1979-1997 – the Conservatives come to power in 1979 and want

to reduce

state spending on health and welfare – they followed

the RESIDUAL MODEL OF WELFARE and promoted a mixed economy

of welfare provision using statutory, private and voluntary agencies. 1997 – 2010 – a Labour (or New Labour) government took office

in 1997 • and developed the ‘Third Way’ – state intervention increased

in some instances and

was reduced in other instances through the expanding use of private

and voluntary sector agencies. INSTITUTIONAL MODEL OF CARE 2010 - ???? – both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats

come to power

in 2010, promoting mainly the Conservative policy of spending cuts and state they

want to support ‘an open society that gives fair chances to everyone’,

increasing social mobility.

Not really against, but…

The New Right (their approach is similar to Functionalism)

Why?……………………………………..……………………………………..………………………

For

Social Democrats (which party?): Social Policy Reforms are good because……………….………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

For, but…

New Labour

in power: UK, 1997 - 2010

Hand up not hand out (do we know what it means?)………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………..

Against

MarxistsThey believe we should go further because……………………………………………………………….And they believe we should have …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Did their (or similar as communists

modified Marxism) policies work in communist countries - the USSR, the People’s Republic of China)?........................................................

Political Spectrum

Marxists The Labour Party

The Conservative Party The Liberal Democratic Party

LEFT CENTRE RIGHT

Three things I have learned today:

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