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Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare

2010-11-17T18:26:48Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==Policy==

As the purpose and main aim of The Centre for Social Justice is to tackle and attempt to fight poverty it is fitting that their aims fit around this idea of attempting to better the position of pople within society. They have numerous areas of which they have policies on ranging from addiction to housing to youth Justice.Duncan Smith suggests that the approach he favours is based on the "belief that people must take repsonsibility for their own choices but that government must value and support life choices. The heart of this approach is support for the role of marriage and initiatives to help people to live free of debt and addiction" <ref> The Centre for Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=226]',''The Centre For Social Justice Website, Accessed 17 November 2010</ref>. It was after much research and the visiting of the most deprived areas of our country that Duncan Smith and his associates were able to suggest a full list of policy areas, areas in which they believed needed most work.

Full list of policies is posted below:

===Policy Areas===

Addiction, Asylum, Children in Care,Community Cohesion, Criminal Justice: Courts & Sentencing, Criminal Justice: Police Reform
Criminal Justice: Prison Reform, Debt, Early Years, Economic Dependency, Educational Failure, Older Age, Family, Family Law, Gangs, Housing, Mental Health, Sport, Social Return on Investment, Voluntary Sector and Youth Justice.

===Pathways to Poverty===

The Centre for Social Justice identifies five main pathways to poverty in order to address these issues and influence policy in order to do so;

1.increase in family breakdown
2.educational underachievement
3.persistent worklessness
4.cycles of addiction
5.personal debt

Evidence is then developed through academic research and heavy laisions with the voluntary sector and other support groups with direct experience with the issues highlighted in order to disrupt these cycles and help remedy poverty.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare

2010-11-17T18:25:59Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==Policy==

As the purpose and main aim of The Centre for Social Justice is to tackle and attempt to fight poverty it is fitting that their aims fit around this idea of attempting to better the position of pople within society. They have numerous areas of which they have policies on ranging from addiction to housing to youth Justice.Duncan Smith suggests that the approach he favours is based on the "belief that people must take repsonsibility for their own choices but that government must value and support life choices. the heart of this approach is support for the role of marriage and initiatives to help people to live free of debt and addiction" <ref> The Centre for Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=226]',''The Centre For Social Justice Website, Accessed 17 November 2010</ref>. It was after much research and the visiting of the most deprived areas of our country that Duncan Smith and his associates were able to suggest a full list of policy areas, areas in which they believed needed most work.

Full list of policies is posted below:

===Policy Areas===

Addiction, Asylum, Children in Care,Community Cohesion, Criminal Justice: Courts & Sentencing, Criminal Justice: Police Reform
Criminal Justice: Prison Reform, Debt, Early Years, Economic Dependency, Educational Failure, Older Age, Family, Family Law, Gangs, Housing, Mental Health, Sport, Social Return on Investment, Voluntary Sector and Youth Justice.

===Pathways to Poverty===

The Centre for Social Justice identifies five main pathways to poverty in order to address these issues and influence policy in order to do so;

1.increase in family breakdown
2.educational underachievement
3.persistent worklessness
4.cycles of addiction
5.personal debt

Evidence is then developed through academic research and heavy laisions with the voluntary sector and other support groups with direct experience with the issues highlighted in order to disrupt these cycles and help remedy poverty.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-17T18:09:15Z

Charlene Harrigan:

[[Image:CSJ logo.gif|200px|thumb|right|CSJ Company Logo]]

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>The Companies House'[http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]',''The Companies House: For the Record Website'', Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>. The idea of the thinktank is to generate ideas from various charities, projects and community organisations with perspective on the true nature of the issue in order to identify the causes of poverty and create positive policies to help combat this, then putting them forward to politicians in order to help shape their manifestos and solve these problems.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>The Centre For Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]', ''The Centre For Social Justice Website'', Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. <ref>The Centre For Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]',''The CSJ Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

[[Image:David Cam.jpg|200px|thumb|right|David Cameron visits CSJ, 18th Jan 2006]]
===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Policies]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-17T18:08:16Z

Charlene Harrigan:

[[Image:CSJ logo.gif|200px|thumb|right|CSJ Company Logo]]

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>'[http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]',''The Companies House: For the Record Website'', Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>. The idea of the thinktank is to generate ideas from various charities, projects and community organisations with perspective on the true nature of the issue in order to identify the causes of poverty and create positive policies to help combat this, then putting them forward to politicians in order to help shape their manifestos and solve these problems.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>The Centre For Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]', ''The Centre For Social Justice Website'', Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. <ref>The Centre For Social Justice'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]',''The CSJ Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

[[Image:David Cam.jpg|200px|thumb|right|David Cameron visits CSJ, 18th Jan 2006]]
===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Policies]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-17T18:04:52Z

Charlene Harrigan:

[[Image:CSJ logo.gif|200px|thumb|right|CSJ Company Logo]]

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>'[http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]'''The Companies House: For the Record Website'', Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>. The idea of the thinktank is to generate ideas from various charities, projects and community organisations with perspective on the true nature of the issue in order to identify the causes of poverty and create positive policies to help combat this, then putting them forward to politicians in order to help shape their manifestos and solve these problems.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]', ''The Centre For Social Justice Website'', Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. <ref>[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]',''The CSJ Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

[[Image:David Cam.jpg|200px|thumb|right|David Cameron visits CSJ, 18th Jan 2006]]
===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Policies]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-17T18:03:27Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions.

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]',''The Centre for Social Justic'', accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which, Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict” <ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]',''The Centre for Social Justice'', accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in households where they experience family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-16T15:36:07Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]',''The Centre for Social Justic'', accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict” <ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]',''The Centre for Social Justic'', accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in households where they experience family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-16T15:24:37Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===WELFARE REFORMS===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', ''The Daily Telegraph'', 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] ''The Daily Telegraph'', 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',''Virgin Media'', 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, ''Virgin Media'', 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',''Virgin Media'', 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith in an interview in the guardian, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is like adding fuel to the fire, within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are scroungers and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal"<ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]',''The Guardian'' 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> .
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic man and many of his associates and advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme he attempted to convey this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of the interview "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" <ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]',''The Guardian'' 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-14T20:35:25Z

Charlene Harrigan: /* Welfare Reforms */

==In the News==

===WELFARE REFORMS===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith in an interview in the guardian, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is like adding fuel to the fire, within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are scroungers and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal"<ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', “The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> .
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic man and many of his associates and advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme he attempted to convey this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of the interview "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" <ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', "The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-14T20:34:36Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith in an interview in the guardian, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is like adding fuel to the fire, within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are scroungers and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal"<ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', “The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> .
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic man and many of his associates and advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme he attempted to convey this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of the interview "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" <ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', "The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

==Notes==
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T15:11:12Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is "fanning the flames", within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are "scroungers" and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal"<ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', “The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> .
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic and many of his associates are advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme conveyed this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of it – "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" <ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', "The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out - the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T14:58:27Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is "fanning the flames", within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are "scroungers" and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal"<ref> Madeline Bunting, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/11/iain-duncan-smith-sin-today Iain Duncan Smith lets his secular mask slip]', “The Guardian” 12 November 2010, accessed 12 November 2010</ref> .
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic and many of his associates are advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme conveyed this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of it – "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out - the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T14:45:30Z

Charlene Harrigan: /* Analysis: 'Sinful' slip that reveals the faith underpinning all IDS does */

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===IAIN DUNCAN SMITH lETS HIS SECULAR MASK SLIP===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is "fanning the flames", within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are "scroungers" and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal".
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic and many of his associates are advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme conveyed this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of it – "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out - the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T14:24:01Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

"My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit",<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]', "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]',"Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media,'[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. "We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', "Virgin Media", 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

===Analysis: 'Sinful' slip that reveals the faith underpinning all IDS does===

"That’s a sin" was stated by Iain Duncan Smith, however what is actually meant by this statement is not quite clear as he talks about the fact that one in five households in the UK have been without work during a time of economic boom and that around 70 percent of the jobs that have been created have gone to foreigners because of the 4.5million that are unemployed are not able or incapable of taking those that are available. He does not clearly state that is it the fact that foreigners are taking the jobs or is it the 4.5 million or the benefit recipients themselves, which one he intended wasn’t very clear.
This could have two possible meanings, the first of which using the word "sin" in the context of this issue is "fanning the flames", within the last week there has been many references to people that are shy to work and people that are "scroungers" and follows the remark of George Osbourne about the lifestyle choices of people. To say that it is a sin fits perfectly into “this narrative of blame and judgment, and for many critics of the coalition government, Duncan Smith will not be given the benefit of the doubt for his choice of words. It will help reverse Cameron's work in detoxifying the Tory brand, reviving the stereotype of the nasty party, now with an added sinister religious edge. It was a very unnecessary own goal".
However the second point is that in the longer term, Iain Duncan Smith is a Catholic and many of his associates are advisors are also Christians, including Philippa Stroud, his fellow founder of The Centre for Social Justice. Duncan Smith suggests that those organizations that do most of the beneficial work are arguably religious organizations.
However when it comes to his policies he has attempted to keep his faith private and taken precaution and care to explain his policies and within his interview on the Today programme conveyed this as he almost managed to keep his religious faith out of it – "which cannot be easy for him, because he has expanded at length in an interview with religious media on his beliefs that many of the problems of poverty have a spiritual base. Instead, he used terms such as "rational choice" to apply to benefit recipients living on welfare and the "contract" that the state has with them". However towards the end of the interview the reporter states how But the reporter describes how just when the interview was about to end, it slipped out - the theological framework that underpins everything Duncan Smith does as a politician.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-12T11:05:56Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]"The Centre for Social Justice", accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict” <ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]', "The Centre for Social Justice", accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in households where they experience family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-12T10:45:22Z

Charlene Harrigan:

[[Image:CSJ logo.gif|200px|thumb|right|CSJ Company Logo]]

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>. The idea of the thinktank is to generate ideas from various charities, projects and community organisations with perspective on the true nature of the issue in order to identify the causes of poverty and create positive policies to help combat this, then putting them forward to politicians in order to help shape their manifestos and solve these problems.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

[[Image:David Cam.jpg|200px|thumb|right|David Cameron visits CSJ, 18th Jan 2006]]
===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Policies]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
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Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T10:44:28Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-12T10:41:00Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”,<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, <ref>,'[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, '[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, '[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]', “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-11T20:53:24Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”,<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, ‘[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>"Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell [http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit] The Daily Telegraph 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-11T20:52:01Z

Charlene Harrigan:

[[Image:CSJ logo.gif|200px|thumb|right|CSJ Company Logo]]

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>. The idea of the thinktank is to generate ideas from various charities, projects and community organisations with perspective on the true nature of the issue in order to identify the causes of poverty and create positive policies to help combat this, then putting them forward to politicians in order to help shape their manifestos and solve these problems.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

[[Image:David Cam.jpg|200px|thumb|right|David Cameron visits CSJ, 18th Jan 2006]]
===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Policies]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
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Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-11T20:48:52Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”,<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, ‘[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, ‘[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”,<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the abandoning of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that stable families were crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref> . The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''<ref> Virgin Media, ‘[http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2010/11/04/duncan_smith_vows_families_support Duncan Smith vows families support]’, “Virgin Media”, 4 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010 </ref>.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-11T20:45:56Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”,<ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, ‘[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” <ref>Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell, ‘[http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8114432/Iain-Duncan-Smith-My-welfare-reforms-are-Beveridge-for-today-with-a-hint-of-Tebbit.html Iain Duncan Smith: My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit]’, “The Daily Telegraph”, 6 November 2010, accessed 9 November 2010</ref> and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”, Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the “abandoning'' of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that “stable families were "crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”. The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. “The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion”. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-09T15:55:54Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]The Centre for Social Justice accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict” <ref>The Centre For Social Justice,'[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]', "The Centre for Social Justice", accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in households where they experience family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-09T15:26:00Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”, this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”, Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the “abandoning'' of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that “stable families were "crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, "Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”. The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. “The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion”. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-09T11:22:39Z

Charlene Harrigan:

==In the News==

===Welfare Reforms===

“My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”, this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interview with Andrew Porter and Mary Riddell of The Daily Telegraph. Duncan Smith declares that he has finally got there, he has finally come up with an answer in order to sort the current welfare system that has spawned out of control. Within the article the authors suggest that he is “basically ripping up the benefits system and starting again” and believe that it will have little lasting effect within society. However Smith does not see it this way he hopes that people will recognise the changes as simply being a cultural shift. Smith suggests that these changes that are to be introduced are the biggest changes since the Bevridge Report and the introduction of the welfare state. As it was through this report that there was the identification of the five giants, these being want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, the reporters make the suggestion that it is in actual fact idleness that most privately concerns him. Duncan Smith and the coalition party have decided to replace the benefit system with one, the universal credit and that there will be a shift away from the generosity of the Labour party to a government that comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

===DUNCAN SMITH VOWS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES===

“Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders than those brought up in stable families, a senior Government minister has warned”, Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the previous Labour government for undermining and not reinforcing the importance of families. This has resulted in higher crime rates, deeper poverty and poorer life chances for children, within this article he also goes as far as to suggest that the “abandoning'' of policies that support marriage has cost the country up to £100 billion. Within his speech at the annual conference of relationship counselling he states that evidence showed that lone parent families are more likely to live in poverty than two parent families. During his speech he states that supporting families was high on the coalitions agenda and that “stable families were "crucial to children's life chances and the social fabric of the nation”. As well as this he emphasises the importance of marriage in building a strong society, particularly if children are to be given the best chance in life and again criticises the last government, “Sadly the last Government seemed determined to undermine marriage”. The [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] estimates that family breakdowns costs the economy between £20bn and £24bn, while the Relationships Foundation claims it is closer to £40bn, however Mr Duncan Smith said it could be as high as £100 billion in his opinion. “The costs to society as a whole through social breakdown, addiction, crime, lost productivity and tax revenues are very difficult to quantify - but research suggests they could be up to £100 billion”. Smith attempts to show how family life affects all of us from what happens on our streets, in our communities and in our economy. What you learn early on has a great deal to say about the person you will eventually become later in life. “We would be foolish to ignore the weight of evidence that shows just how influential family can be to life outcomes.'' He told his representatives at the conference in Daventry, Northamptonshire, that Britain has among the highest divorce and teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, but claimed “throwing money at the problem will not solve it''.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Activities

2010-11-09T10:49:59Z

Charlene Harrigan: New page: ==In the News== ===Welfare Reforms=== “My welfare reforms are Beveridge for today, with a hint of Tebbit”, this is how Iain Duncan Smith described his welfare reform acts in an interv...

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-06T13:36:05Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]The Centre for Social Justice accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict”"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]The Centre for Social Justice accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in households where they experience family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-06T13:33:21Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness"<ref>The Centre For Social Justice[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/CSJ0032_Northern_Ireland_27.08_WEB.pdf]The Centre for Social Justice accessed 26th October 2010</ref>. Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict”. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in
households where they experience family breakdown,
educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to
reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own
families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-02T15:55:00Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness". Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict”. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

This chapter develops on the outcomes and findings of the chapters previous and suggests again that the problems in Northern Ireland require a prevention approach rather than one that aims to limit damage and or reduce harm. Children who grow up in
households where they experience family breakdown,
educational failure, addiction, worklessness and indebtedness are more likely than other children to
reproduce these forms of social breakdown in their own
families. In order to prevent this type of social breakdown, some form of social interventions need to take place as early as possible in a child’s life – an Early Intervention approach. The CSJ suggested that when designing a successful early intervention strategy to protect against behavioural problems in later life that guiding principles must be followed, such as, the promotion of emotionally healthy relationships, aim to be ‘family centred’ (not just centred upon children), to treat all family relationships as important, to enable people to build on their strengths as opposed to making them dependent on professionals, make effective policy solutions universally available, to ensure that an early years focus does not cause a disadvantage or exclude later years and prevention. Recommendations of this chapter of the report were early intervention policy, family policy and family fostering, these along with the guiding principles would provide an effective as well as efficient framework for change within Ireland

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-02T13:17:11Z

Charlene Harrigan: /* History and Background */

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036) <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-11-02T13:15:38Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036 <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Philippa Stroud]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-02T13:07:23Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 [[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice]] published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

===Chapter One: Economic Dependency and Worklessness in Northern Ireland===

This Chapter of the report looked at the scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland and demonstrates a link between this and poverty, being ill health breakdown of familes and attempted to investigate and find a root of the causes of the problem and the impact of recent labour market policy on worklessness. Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness". Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term. The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

===Chapter two: Fragility in Northern Ireland===

“The history of political conflict and civil unrest in Northern Ireland makes it unique in the UK in terms of its social profile as a region. The legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – a phenomenon which has largely
characterised much of its history over the past 50 years – has profoundly affected not only its governance, but its communities and individuals. Many of those most profoundly affected by social breakdown have known severe
disadvantage and heightened community conflict”. This chapter within the report attempts to show that the high prevalence rates of depression and mental ill-health in Northern Ireland are associated with problems of worklessness, addiction, and conflict-related trauma. The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to make the position of those who are disadvantaged already worse, this particularly being those who are the poorest off. The report stated ti would be "irresponsible to overlook the conflict in any social commentary of Northern Ireland and in the development of social policy". The political climate during times of conflict usually tends to worsen the problems for those who are already at a disadvantage and this is particularly seen to be the case in Ireland.The recommendations of chapter two concluded that in order to address problems of personal fragility in Northern Ireland that is expressed in poor mental health, addiction and significantly influenced by troubles the CSJ stated that it is essential to implement effective policy solutions to reverse the cycles that they described within this chapter. Such policies and programmes included, Putting full recovery at the heart of treatment
Reforming governance at national and local level and integrating policy, Expand the use of third sector solutions such as residential rehabilitation
and recovery communities, More use of peer support, Prevention and education and Family centred policy solutions.

===Chapter Three: The Next Generation in Northern Ireland===

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-02T12:58:30Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-11-02T12:50:08Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-10-29T18:32:32Z

Charlene Harrigan:

In September 2010 the Centre for Social Justice published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in Northern Ireland, Barriers to labour market engagement, Worklessness and family breakdown, Worklessness and youth unemployment, Worklessness and mental ill-health, Pensioner poverty, The unemployment system, Welfare to work,The benefit system and provided Policy recommendations.

The CSJ attempted to work alongside many of Northern Irelands poverty fighters and attempted to establish connections with a variety of voluntary and community organisations, who have conveyed the complex and deeprooted nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. The CSJ concluded that the problems of Northern Ireland had too long been focused on conflict and sectarian divisions, that whilst these were important many of the issues and social problems of Northern Ireland are replicated throughout the UK as a whole.

The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness. The CSJ concluded that there are five key ‘pathways to poverty’, family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependency, addictions and indebtedness.
These pathways have all been recognised as being interrelated, children from broken homes are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, more likely to smoke and drink. Much research has helped to inform the work around these pathways and many policies from Breakthrough Britain and other CSJ publications are presented within the report as effective solutions

==Recommendations of the Report==

Recommendations of chapter one of the report proposed in "Dynamic Benefits, we propose a redesign of the benefit
system so that it relieves poverty over the long-term. We must account for how its shape and structure influence
people’s movement into and out of work.47 People need to be recognised as dynamic, active participants in the economy, not as static, passive recipients of cash transfers – so effective welfare programmes must successfully overcome barriers to work rather than merely financing (and thus maintaining)worklessness". Key considerations of the proposed reforms included: The continued relief of poverty, The reduction of worklessness and benefitdependency, The support of positive behaviours by reducing the couple, mortgage and
savings penalties, An increase in the affordability of the system to the state in the medium
long-term
The CSJ concluded that these objectives could be met in a system in which: Earned income is valued over benefit income, Household rather than individual employment is of greatest concern for policy makers, Decision-making that enhances self-sufficiency is rewarded, The reduction of participation and marginal tax rates for low earners leads to an increase in employment that makes it self-financing over the medium-term.

==Chapter two==

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-10-29T18:24:07Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-10-29T17:48:14Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland

2010-10-29T14:16:03Z

Charlene Harrigan: New page: In September 2010 the Centre for Social Justice published Breakthrough Northern Ireland Report. This report attempted to look at a wide range of areas including Scale of worklessness in No...

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith

2010-10-29T14:07:47Z

Charlene Harrigan:

As stated Iain Duncan Smith co founded the CSJ along with the help of Philippa Stroud, however due to his appointment as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in May 2010 he stepped down as Chairman of the CSJ, but is now recognised as the founder and patron of the thinktank <ref>http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=37</ref>

Iain Duncan Smith (Work and Pensions Secretary and former Conservative leader)claimed that the unemployed should get a bus to find work instead of being 'static'. He said that Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales was a prime example of this.
<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/25/job-vacancy-duncan-smith-bus?CMP=twt_fd</ref>

<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11606492</ref>
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-26T11:38:44Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036 <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Iain Duncan Smith]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social JusticePhilippa Stroud]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

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*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Work in Northern Ireland]]
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-22T10:58:40Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by [[Iain Duncan Smith]]along with the help of Philippa Claire Stroud, a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. The Centre for Social Justice was incorporated with Companies House on the 25th May 2004 (Company No. 05137036 <ref>"http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/b1d15290ddb948ed7129d9de20f63595/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo]The Companies House: For the Record Website Accessed 21 October 2010</ref>.

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]

==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]
<references/>

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare

2010-10-19T12:56:51Z

Charlene Harrigan: New page: ==Policy== As the purpose and main aim of The Centre for Social Justice is to Tackle and attempt to fight poverty it is fitting that thair aims fit around this idea of attempting to bette...

==Policy==

As the purpose and main aim of The Centre for Social Justice is to Tackle and attempt to fight poverty it is fitting that thair aims fit around this idea of attempting to better the postiotion of pople witihin society. They have numerous areas of which they have policies on ranging from addiction to housing to youth Justice. Full list of policies is posted below:

===Policy Areas===

Addiction, Asylum, Children in Care,Community Cohesion, Criminal Justice: Courts & Sentencing, Criminal Justice: Police Reform
Criminal Justice: Prison Reform, Debt, Early Years, Economic Dependency, Educational Failure, Older Age, Family, Family Law, Gangs, Housing, Mental Health, Sport, Social Return on Investment, Voluntary Sector and Youth Justice.

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-19T12:46:04Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History and Background==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by [[Iain Duncan Smith]], a former leader of the Conservative Party who created this Political thinktank after losing the Conservative leadership in October 2003 through which he continues to show his commitment to compassionate conservatism. The main aim of the establishment of the Centre for Social Justice was to attempt to find and create new ways to overcome and to attempt to tackle poverty. <ref>"[http://www.iainduncansmith.org/text.aspx?id=32]Iain Duncan Smith MP for Chingford and Woodford Green Accessed 19th October 2010</ref>

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

[[Funding and Connections]]
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-19T12:36:04Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by [[Iain Duncan Smith]], a former leader of the Conservative Party. The main aim of the establishment of this thinktank was to attempt to find new ways to overcome and tackle poverty

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-19T12:19:30Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent British thinktank, that was set up and established by Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Conservative Party. The main aim of the establishment of this thinktank was to attempt to find new ways to overcome and tackle poverty

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-19T12:00:10Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===

There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. The Advisroy Council can be broken into two seperate group these are Business Owner and Associates(Influential Figures such as Royalty) and MPs and MEPs.

===Business===

Camila Batmangelidjh CEO, Kid’s Company Johan Eliasch
Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy Lord Brian Griffiths Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs International Limited Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan, Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, Conservative Home , Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence ShermanWolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford; former Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford; former chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; former Governor of the BBC; and current Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London; sits as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords.

===MPs and MEPs===

Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary, Robert H Halfon MP
Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Conservative Friends of Israel Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Minister of State, Cabinet Office, David Willetts MP Minister for Universities and Science.

<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-12T14:25:10Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===
There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. This Board of Advisors includes: Camila Batmangelidjh
CEO, Kid’s Company, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford, Johan Eliasch, Lord Brian Griffiths
Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc, Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary , Robert H Halfon MPb Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
Minister of State, Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, ConservativeHome, Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse, Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP, Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence Sherman Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University,Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster and David Willetts MP
Minister for Universities and Science. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-12T13:00:31Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

===Advisory Council===
There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. This Board of Advisors includes: Camila Batmangelidjh
CEO, Kid’s Company, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford, Johan Eliasch, Lord Brian Griffiths
Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc, Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary , Robert H Halfon MPb Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
Minister of State, Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, ConservativeHome, Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse, Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP, Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence Sherman Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University,Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster and David Willetts MP
Minister for Universities and Science. .<ref>"[http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk]The Centre For Social Justice Website Accessed 12 October 2010</ref>

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-12T12:52:15Z

Charlene Harrigan:

Charlene Harrigan,
Kirsty Macdonald,
Cheryl Littlewood,
Catriona Burnett
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/

==History==

==People==
The centre for social Justice consists of many people who have a fundamental role and part to play within the company these individuals include Gavin Poole, Executive Director,Chris Bullivant, Projects Director,Charlotte Pickles, Policy Director, Seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as an Expert Advisor, Robin Millar, Programmes Director,Juliette Ash, External Affairs Director,Cara Walker, Senior Fundraiser and Profile Manager, Dr Jeffrey Bailey, Chairman in Residence, Dr Samantha Callan, Chairman in Residence, Christian Guy, Senior Policy Specialist, Adele Eastman, Senior Policy Specialist, Zoe Briance, CSJ Awards and CSJ Alliance Manager, Ali Crossley, Senior Researcher, Deven Ghelani, Senior Researcher, Chris Perfect, Policy Researcher, James Mumford, Policy Researcher, Kirsty Turnbull, Office Manager, Nicola Vimalanathan, Fundraiser, Lucy Maule, Executive Assistant to Executive Director and Joseph Colman, CSJ Conference Coordinator.

===Directors===
The Board of Directors consists for The Centre for Social Justice Consist of Mark Florman, Louise Hobbs, Dr Stephen Brien, Ryan Robson and Sam Clarke who also has the role of company Secretary.

===Advisory Council===
There also consists of an advisory council, a Board of people who will meet once a year in order to maintain ongoing support and strategies for the Centre for Social Justice. This Board of Advisors includes: Camila Batmangelidjh
CEO, Kid’s Company, Baroness Deech, Former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford, Johan Eliasch, Lord Brian Griffiths
Chairman of Board, Herman Miller Inc, Rt Hon William Hague MP Foreign Secretary , Robert H Halfon MPb Member of Parliament for Harlow and Consultant, Syed Kamall MEP Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
Minister of State, Murdoch Maclennan Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, George Magan Chairman of Carlton Capital Partners, Tim Montgomerie Editor, ConservativeHome, Malcolm Offord Partner, Charterhouse, Patrick Regan CEO of youth charity XLP, Stephan Shakespeare Chief Innovations Officer, YouGov, Professor Lawrence Sherman Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University,Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster and David Willetts MP
Minister for Universities and Science.

==Funding==
==Suggestions for sub-pages==

Just suggestions - feel free to change/add to this - although it is recommended that you create several main pages linked to from this main project page so group members can edit simultaneously.

*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: History and background]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Funding and connections]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Activities]]
*[[Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice: Views and aims on Welfare]]

Globalisation:Centre for Social Justice

2010-10-12T12:41:16Z

Charlene Harrigan: