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Orton, Michael, Summers, Kate and Morris, Rosa (2022) Guiding principles for social security policy : outcomes from a bottom-up approach. Social Policy & Administration, 56 (3). pp. 485-501. doi:10.1111/spol.12782 ISSN 0144-5596.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12782
Abstract
Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequacy of UK social security but also the lack of consensus amongst 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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social security -- Great Britain, Social security -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Welfare state -- Great Britain, Public welfare -- Political aspects -- Great Britain, Public welfare -- Great Britain, Participant observation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Policy & Administration | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0144-5596 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 56 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 485-501 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/spol.12782 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Orton, M., Summers, K., & Morris, R. (2021). Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom-up approach. Social Policy & Administration, 1– 17, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12782. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 November 2023 | ||||||||
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