Welfare for the 21st century

Retirement Policy Research Centre

Public Policy Group

Departments of Economics and Sociology

Child Poverty Action Group

10th September 2010

Organising Committee

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Welfare for the 21st century

Welfare for the 21st century

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Floor 35.15 -6.15pm

21st century Everything has changed

• Family

• Relationships

• Labour market

• Expectations

• Demography

• Ethnicity

• Technology

Purpose of today

• Contribute to the thinking

• Not be reactive

Context for forum19th century Social laboratory

Women’s suffrage

old age pension

1938 Social Security Act

free education

public hospitals

state housing

Post war worker’s welfare state

Nuclear family

Full employment

1967

1972

Royal Commission Social Security

“Belonging and participation”

DPB 1974

ACC 1974

Nat Super 1977

1988 Royal Commission Social Policy

costly door-stop?

Three objectives income maintenance system

• Access to sufficient share of income and resources to allow all to participate in society, have a genuine opportunity to achieve potential and live fulfilling lives

• Relieve need

• Ensure the wellbeing and healthy development of all children

Budget 1991 Welfare to Work

Self responsibilityand individualism

2000s- work focused reforms

Rewrite of the Social Security Act 2006

“ work in paid employment offers the best

opportunity for people to achieve social and economic well being”

“the priority for people of working age should be to find and retain work”

Future Focus Bill 2010

Welfare Working Group 2010

Paula Rebstock

Chair of the

Welfare Working Group

Professor Paul Smyth

• Reframing the Social Inclusion/social exclusion debate for the 21st century

Chair Mike O’Brien