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Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom‐up approach.
- Source :
- Social Policy & Administration; May2022, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p485-501, 17p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Covid‐19 has highlighted the inadequacy of UK social security but also the lack of consensus among progressive actors about what would be a better system. One way forward is to focus on the principles that should underpin social security. We present outcomes from a project in which principles were considered by a panel of Expert by Experience benefit claimants. We argue that while scholars often engage in descriptively identifying social security principles in existing policy, the bottom‐up approach presented here offers a way of generating normative principles to guide an improved future system. We identify key contributions of this bottom‐up approach relating to: the critical importance of principles as a guide to the fundamental purpose of social security, and policy making; the relationship between the treatment of claimants and benefit levels as co‐dependent; and how a bottom‐up process can produce results that engage with and contribute holistically to the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01445596
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Policy & Administration
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156378689
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12782