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

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. 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.