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Should you have any difficulties in making your online purchase, please call Kirsty at the Centre for Social Justice on 020 7340 9650 (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.)
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"Dynamic Benefits: towards Welfare that works" 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 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. Dynamic Benefits is the most far-reaching review of the UK welfare system in 60 years. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens" Boosting the life chances of deprived children aged 0 to 3, tackling social problems before they begin and breaking an intergenerational cycle of underachievement. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Order in the Courts: restoring faith through local justice" While Stocks Last This 192 page report draws on interviews with the public, experts, the judiciary, probation and others involved in the criminal justice system. It makes 40 recommendations which will shift the focus of magistrates’ courts, the probation service and prisons onto the communities they serve and will make sentences more productive. The report makes recommendations on a variety of typical problems facing local justice institutions, including deprivation, addiction, mental illness and the broad loss of public confidence. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Dynamic Benefits: towards Welfare that works" 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 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. Dynamic Benefits is the most far-reaching review of the UK welfare system in 60 years. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Every Family Matters: an in-depth review of family law in Britain" SORRY, THIS REPORT IS NOW OUT OF STOCK The CSJ report Breakthrough Britain documented how family breakdown was deeply detrimental to children’s life chances and the wellbeing of adults. Every Family Matters is a comprehensive 320 page analysis of the impact of English family law on family life. The review makes 131 recommendations which will ensure that the law does not contribute to family breakdown but, rather, supports stable and healthy families. The recommendations are in the following areas: relationship support, pre-marriage information and preparation, pre-marital agreements, domestic violence, mediation services, divorce law, post-divorce settlements and financial provision, legal aid, international families, as well as the rights of the extended family. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Family Law Review: Faster Divorce and Foreign Law" SORRY, THIS REPORT IS NOW OUT OF STOCK This 24 page report from experts within the family law background look to challange the divorce trend that has been reinforced by the European Court. The paper looks at four major themes:
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"A Force to be Reckoned With" This 153 page report draws on interviews with the public, experts, and Police Forces around the country and makes 26 policy recommendations to renew the Police Service's unique history of localism and 'policing by consent'. The three core recommendations of the report are:
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"Locked Up Potential: a strategy for reforming prisons and rehabilitating prisoners" This 276 page report provides a comprehensive analysis of and 70 policy recommendations for our failing prison system, including: prison management and governance; overcrowding; mental health and substance abuse; prisoners’ families; personal development through education, training, work and the arts; prisoners and their victims; resettlement, and three proposed new Acts of Parliament. The three core recommendations of the report are:
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"Dying to Belong: An In-Depth Review of Street Gangs in Britain" 228 page report which analyses the true nature and scale of gang culture in Britain. It looks at who is involved and what they are involved in; how Britain has reached this point; and what society can do to tackle it. Highlighting and learning from models of best practice in both the UK and America Dying to Belong sets out a blueprint for tackling Britain’s growing gang problem. It covers:
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"Asylum Matters: Restoring Trust in the UK Asylum System" 105 page report analysing the problems faced by asylum seekers in bureaucratic limbo pending outcomes. Recommendations to ensure a fairer asylum system that lead to fairer outcomes and respect the dignity of those seeking asylum. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Housing Poverty" The 134 page report charts how many of the stable and prosperous working class communities of the 1960s and 1970s have degenerated into sink estates trapping their tenants into lives on benefits from which few ever escape. It proposes incentives designed to reduce welfare dependency and enable the poorest families to begin to acquire assets and join the mainstream of society. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Breakthrough Britain" SORRY, THIS REPORT IS NOW OUT OF STOCK The Social Justice Policy Group (SJPG) was commissioned by the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, in January 2006 to make policy recommendations to the Conservative Party on issues of social justice. The SJPG was chaired by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, former leader of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, with Deputy Chairman Debbie Scott, Chief Executive of Tomorrow's People. The Policy Group's Secretariat was hosted by the Centre for Social Justice. "Breakthrough Britain: Ending the Costs of Social Breakdown" presents over 190 policies to reverse social breakdown and builds on the analysis of the State of the Nation presented in "Breakdown Britain." PRODUCT DETAILS: | |
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"Breakdown Britain: Executive Summary" A 300,000 word Interim Report from the Social Justice Policy Group. This State of the Nation report describes the five multi-causal drivers of poverty in Britain today plus a paper on the potential of the Voluntary Sector for its remedy. PRODUCT DETAILS:
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"Freedom, dignity and slavery in the modern world" On 24 January 2005, William Hague MP addressed the subject of human slavery in the CSJ's First Abraham Lincoln Address. PRODUCT DETAILS: | |
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"Whatever happened to compassionate conservatism?" On 1 November 2005, one day before George W Bush was re-elected as US President, the CSJ published an analysis of four years of compassionate conservatism. Tim Montgomerie concluded that George W Bush had made less progress on poverty reduction than Rudy Guiliani, Newt Gingrich and other reforming Republicans. PRODUCT DETAILS: | |
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