CSJ FRINGE
We are holding a series of public events in Manchester from Sunday 4 October - Wednesday 7 October 2009 discussing all our latest policy proposals with members of the Shadow Cabinet and top journalists. You are warmly invited. The events are free to attend, and take place at breakfast, lunch or dinner time, with free food and refreshments served.
The CSJ Fringe is taking place outside the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester next month, and will look at prison reform, children in care, gangs and youth violence, police reform, educational failure, social housing, welfare reform, family breakdown, early years, and the role of the voluntary sector to fix Broken Britain.
Most of our events are in the Jury's Inn and the Manchester Town Hall and are open to members of the public. As someone involved in our poverty fighting alliance, we'd be thrilled if you could come and join the audience and hear our policy proposals first hand and hear what senior politicians have to say about it.
Join us and meet: Iain Duncan Smith MP, Yvette Cooper MP, Chris Grayling MP, Theresa May MP, Dominic Grieve MP, David Willetts MP, Michael Gove MP, Maria Miller MP, Grant Shapps MP, Nick Hurd MP, Edward Garnier MP, David Ruffley MP, Tim Loughton MP, Steve Webb MP, Lord Freud, Jonathan Aitken, Polly Toynbee, Fraser Nelson, and Theodore Dalrymple amongst others.
For a full list of events at the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative Party Conferences visit www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/conference
DYNAMIC BENEFITS
The CSJ published Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare That Works today. The policy proposals in Dynamic Benefits would result in 600,000 households coming off welfare dependency and into work, boost the incomes of the lowest paid by nearly £5 billion and help move more than 200,000 children out of poverty. The overhaul will make welfare spending predictable and promote a culture of working rather than not working.
Published in association with management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, this 370-page report presents a review of the UK benefits system and proposals for a radical recasting of state support for the jobless and low-paid. The review, by the CSJ Economic Dependency Working Group, was chaired by Dr Stephen Brien.
Dynamic Benefits is the most far-reaching review of the UK welfare system in 60 years.
Copies of the full report and Executive Summary can be purchased from the Centre for Social Justice; alternatively they are available to download in PDF format from our website www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
POVERTY DEBATE
All the latest poverty fighting headlines and news stories, blogs and an opportunity to meet other CSJ Alliance members and poverty fighters on www.povertydebate.com
STAFF INNER CITY CHALLENGE
Gabriel Doctor (pictured above), our Policy Group Manager, spent 2 days in Carlisle this August working with CSJ Alliance member the Living Well Trust.
Whilst many members of the CSJ team have voluntary sector experience,some have less than others, and there's nothing more envisioning for the team than to visit our Alliance members to reconnect with our core values.
Gabriel has been with us for two years and manages the production of all our reports and Working Groups whilst working away on his own criminal justice research project. Needless to say he's often desk-bound till late in the evening so jumped at the chance to visit a community regeneration project.
"It was a great experience," said Gabriel, "Beyond the provision of schooling, youth clubs, pre-natal groups, the 'young at hearts' and many more activities, I was struck by how relational the work was, how the stability and presence of Living Well makes a difference to the Raffles Estate.
"I was impressed by the team's passion and commitment, both to the people on the Estate and to each other."
Gabriel took part in work with the elderly, young mothers, and outreach youth work."I was grateful to all the team, it was an eye opening experience."
CSJ Alliance member 58i sent us this picture of Cara Walker, CSJ Fundraiser and Profile Manager, from when she visited them for two days on her Staff Inner City Challenge in the summer.
The Centre for Social Justice
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