shawn
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CPAG conference ... The Welfare State: 60 years on
Wed 23-Jul-08 01:28 PM |
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The Welfare State: 60 years on
A CPAG conference
Thursday 4 September 2008, 10.00am - 4.30pm
The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA.
This conference will mark the 60th birthday of the Welfare State. There will be workshops covering the latest changes in welfare reform and a panel discussion, which will focus on what policies we need to address the giants: poverty; employment; housing; education; health and any new giants of today.
Keynote Speaker - Fran Bennett: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, University of Oxford
Workshop sessions -
- Lone Parents & welfare reform
- Employment and support allowance
- Migration, covering right to reside and proposed immigration law changes
- Welfare Reform Green Paper
- Enforcing rights
Panel Members -
- Kim Catcheside - Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC News (Chair)
- Duleep Allirajah - Policy Manager, Macmillan Cancer Relief
- Richard Exell - Senior Policy Officer, Trade Union Congress
- Kate Green - CEO, Child Poverty Action Group
- Sharon Wright - Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling.
For more information and booking see http://www.cpag.org.uk/training/conf_2008.htm
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