This report calls for a new benefits framework to create solid foundations for the long term. It sets out practical policies to support people with health problems or disability get back to work and...
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The authors show current policies to be inadequate to meet the scale and importance of the challenge of supporting many more disabled people into work. They suggest seven key themes that the...
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A collection which assesses the broader implications of asset-based welfare for the future. This is the fourth book published by the Centre for Asset-based Welfare. Tony Atkinson argued in 1972 that...
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The policy recommendations from our major research project on pensions and long-term care. Since 1997 Labour has devoted much time and effort to pensions and long-term care reform. Both areas have...
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Older people
> Acts as a companion volume to A New Contract for Retirement , and contains three new and important contributions to the debates about pensions and long-term care. Can be bought together with A...
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The government has proposed two innovative asset-based welfare policies: the Child Trust Fund and the Savings Gateway. Part of the rationale for the development of an asset-based approach is that...
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An investigation of people's attitudes, understanding and expectations of their individual or collective rights and responsibilities in old age. Since 1997, Labour has made wide-ranging changes to...
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Helping people on low incomes to accumulate assets is moving into the welfare policy limelight in the UK. This debate is taking place in many countries around the globe, the experiences of four such...
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> In this publication, asset-based ideas are explored from three different perspectives and lessons drawn from academic, policy-making and practical contexts. A progressive approach to asset-building...
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Many within Britain have little security in the form of assets or savings. Yet in the past, policies to promote saving and investment have relied almost exclusively on the tax system. In Ownership...
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