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Welfare for the 21st century
Retirement Policy Research Centre
Public Policy Group
Departments of Economics and Sociology
Child Poverty Action Group
10th September 2010
Organising Committee
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Welfare for the 21st century
Welfare for the 21st century
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Floor 35.15 -6.15pm
21st century Everything has changed
• Family
• Relationships
• Labour market
• Expectations
• Demography
• Ethnicity
• Technology
Purpose of today
• Contribute to the thinking
• Not be reactive
Context for forum19th century Social laboratory
Women’s suffrage
old age pension
1938 Social Security Act
free education
public hospitals
state housing
Post war worker’s welfare state
Nuclear family
Full employment
1967
1972
Royal Commission Social Security
“Belonging and participation”
DPB 1974
ACC 1974
Nat Super 1977
1988 Royal Commission Social Policy
costly door-stop?
Three objectives income maintenance system
• Access to sufficient share of income and resources to allow all to participate in society, have a genuine opportunity to achieve potential and live fulfilling lives
• Relieve need
• Ensure the wellbeing and healthy development of all children
Budget 1991 Welfare to Work
Self responsibilityand individualism
2000s- work focused reforms
Rewrite of the Social Security Act 2006
“ work in paid employment offers the best
opportunity for people to achieve social and economic well being”
“the priority for people of working age should be to find and retain work”
Future Focus Bill 2010
Welfare Working Group 2010
Paula Rebstock
Chair of the
Welfare Working Group
Professor Paul Smyth
• Reframing the Social Inclusion/social exclusion debate for the 21st century
Chair Mike O’Brien