Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK

Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK

This paper draws on extensive work undertaken with colleagues at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, during the Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme (2011-2015), and on the book that followed. It provides a brief overview of some of the...

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Autor principal: Obolenskaya, Polina
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Publicat: Observatoire de la société britannique 2018
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:osb_1920 https://doi.org/10.4000/osb.1920 urn:doi:10.4000/osb.1920 en https://journals.openedition.org/osb/1920 2018-01-26T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/is3g All rights reserved Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK Observatoire de la société britannique Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1775-4135 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1957-3383 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/osb Obolenskaya, Polina social policy recession coalition public spending Labour outcome This paper draws on extensive work undertaken with colleagues at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, during the Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme (2011-2015), and on the book that followed. It provides a brief overview of some of the findings which report on the responses of the UK government to the recession of 2008 in terms of public spending and policies and their effect on poverty, inequality and distribution of social and economic outcomes. For a number of areas of social policy this paper shows that while the initial response of the Labour government to the financial crisis was to continue the investment in public services, with increased spending and emphasis on the need to ‘support vulnerable groups through the downturn’, the period that followed, under the Coalition government, can be characterised as that of ‘selective austerity’, with significant cuts to a number of spending areas accompanied by a range of major reforms. Although both governments expressed their commitment to a fairer and more equal society, by 2014/15 the challenges of social justice remained and some were even greater than before the recession.
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topic social policy
recession
coalition
public spending
Labour
outcome
spellingShingle social policy
recession
coalition
public spending
Labour
outcome
Obolenskaya, Polina
Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
description This paper draws on extensive work undertaken with colleagues at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, during the Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme (2011-2015), and on the book that followed. It provides a brief overview of some of the findings which report on the responses of the UK government to the recession of 2008 in terms of public spending and policies and their effect on poverty, inequality and distribution of social and economic outcomes. For a number of areas of social policy this paper shows that while the initial response of the Labour government to the financial crisis was to continue the investment in public services, with increased spending and emphasis on the need to ‘support vulnerable groups through the downturn’, the period that followed, under the Coalition government, can be characterised as that of ‘selective austerity’, with significant cuts to a number of spending areas accompanied by a range of major reforms. Although both governments expressed their commitment to a fairer and more equal society, by 2014/15 the challenges of social justice remained and some were even greater than before the recession.
author Obolenskaya, Polina
author_facet Obolenskaya, Polina
author_sort Obolenskaya, Polina
title Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
title_short Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
title_full Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
title_fullStr Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
title_full_unstemmed Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the Economic Crisis in the UK
title_sort social policy in a cold climate : spending, policies and outcomes since the economic crisis in the uk
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