Dozens of CSJ policies to tackle disadvantage have been backed by mainstream parties as part of the 2015 General Election campaign.
To chart the progress an Election Watch page has been created to outline the CSJ's influence.
Many of the ideas have come from the recent two-year investigation into UK poverty, Breakthrough Britain 2015.
Almost 200 new recommendations emerged from the project, which saw the CSJ team travel 50,000 miles, conduct nearly 150 evidence hearings, visit almost 1,000 poverty-fighting charities and poll 6,000 members of the public.
Just last week the Home Secretary vowed to outlaw the sale of dangerous ‘legal highs’ – a move argued for by the CSJ.
Theresa May wants to bring forward new laws to ban the sale of new psychoactive substances (NPS) – or ‘legal highs’ – before the election.
This move, based on a similar scheme which ran in Ireland, was proposed by the CSJ last year in its report Ambitious for Recovery. The policy bans ‘head shops’ that sell these products – the number of these vendors in Ireland have been slashed from 100 to fewer than 10 and hospitals have seen a major decline in the number of people admitted because of these drugs.
A month earlier Labour committed to a CSJ plan to renew Sure Start Children’s Centres and turn them into Family Hubs. These will be ‘go to’ places for parents to access information, antenatal and postnatal services, information on childcare, employment and debt advice and relationship support. This idea was put forward in the CSJ report Fully Committed?
In the same month Liberal Democrat Business Minister Jo Swinson backed a CSJ solution to tackle problem debt. The Coalition has increased the number of people who can use Debt Relief Orders, a cheap form of personal insolvency. The CSJ called for this in Restoring the Balance.
The CSJ has inspired dozens of other political commitments during the campaign, including: a scheme to get the best teachers to the weakest schools, an increase in detection of addiction in hospitals and new measures to tackle modern slavery in the UK and abroad.
To see the full range of CSJ policy wins go to the Election Watch page here.