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.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" [1]. 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.
