Social Policy in a Cold Climate: A Framework for Analysing the Effects of Social Policy

Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard

CASE - Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Note from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007/8, social policy and the welfare state in the UK have been undergoing a period of extraordinary change. After a decade of welfare state expansion to 2007, with particularly high spending on health and education, Labour's response to the financial crash was to increase public spending in a counter-recessionary move. Since the change of government in 2010, this strategy has been overturned, replaced by extensive cuts to public spending, arguably the largest since 1921-4, and major structural reforms in many areas of social policy.

Keywords: public spending; welfare state; coalition; Labour; financial crisis; cuts; Social Policy in a Cold Climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
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