Breakdown Britain

Breakdown Britain | Published 14 December 2006
The 300,000 word Interim Report of the Social Justice Policy Group describes the five multi-causal drivers of poverty in Britain today plus a paper on the potential of the Voluntary Sector for its remedy. Breakdown Britain provides the context for policy proposals to be delivered to the Conservative Party in the summer of 2007.
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	Executive Summary [2.07MB] A 111 page summary of the 6 Chairmen's Reports: five pathways to poverty and the role of the Voluntary Sector.
	Economic Dependence and Worklessness [255KB] A frank consideration of relative poverty and welfare to work programmes.
	Family Breakdown [2.17MB] Family structures, family breakdown, cohabitation, lone-parenting: the role of the family in poverty.
	Addiction [1.96MB] The impact of drug and alcohol addiction and the failing of current government treatment approaches.
	Educational Failure [518KB] Eye-opening report on how the current education system fails the poor, despite huge increases in the Education Budget.
	Indebtedness [399KB] Providing new evidence of the scale and nature of personal debt and its contribution towards persistent poverty.
	Second chance: the Voluntary Sector [736KB] Voluntary groups and the welfare society as effective alternative and compliment to state-run programmes.