Slides from the Centre for Welfare Reform Westminster Launch on 24th March 2011- presentations from Simon Duffy, Pippa Murray, Clare Hyde, Craig Dearden-Phillips and Vidhya Alakeson

1. The Launch of The Centre for Welfare
Reform
24th March 2011
with thanks to Bircham Dyson Bell

2. Phillip Collins:
The Prospects for Radical Welfare

3. Reform?
Reform?
Aren’t things bad enough
already?

4. The Poverty Net

5. From a ‘professional gift’
to Citizenship

6. and some solutions are
• Integrated tax-benefit
system - with
guaranteed minimum
family incomes
• Personalisation in
health, care and
education
• Effective system of
constitutional rights
to support and
control
• Restoration of local
communities and
meaningful local
autonomy

7. But resistance is
• Public confused and suspicious
• Producers threatened by accountability
• Politicians enjoy their patronage of the welfare
system
• Civil servants are experts in protecting the
status quo

8. So howfor change still needs to be made
will change happen
• The case
• People need to be engaged and involved
• More thought, research and debate is
required
• Further action, experiment and innovation is
needed
Create a community of
passionate, thoughtful
and practical people -
committed to equality &
diversity

9. The Centre for
Welfare Reform is:
A growing
community
of Fellows working
independently and
together...

10. to implement
practical
innovations within
the current system...

11. to share what we
learn...

12. quietly, without
fuss or competition.
• Values - human equality,
and the value of diversity
• R&D - focused research,
practical development
and publication
• Network - partners,
Fellows, subscribers
• Tiny hub - low cost,
small, private, social
enterprise
Do good work and lie low - Lao Tzu

13. Clare Hyde MBE
Local Justice: family-focused
• 72% of male and 70% of female sentenced prisoners suffer
from 2 or more mental health disorders. 20% of prisoners
have 4 of the 5 major mental health disorders.
• 71% of children in custody have been involved with, or in
the care of, social services before entering custody.
• 74% of children released from custody in 2008 reoffended
within a year.
• 83,000 in prison: 47% of adults are re-convicted within 1
year of being released (for those serving sentences of less
than 1 year this increases to 60%). For those who have
served more than 10 previous custodial sentences the rate
of reoffending rises to 76%
• Over half the women in prison report having suffered

14. to the power of 4
1. Women and Children First - Start
with a focus on women, children
and families.
2. Local Justice Reinvestment - Create
a new financial system where local
areas have an incentive to invest in
their own communities.
3. Total Place - Change the way
funding is used locally.
4. Personalisation - Use
personalisation as the key to
unlock family problems.

15. Family Justice...

17. Vidhya Alakeson
Active Patient: the real power shift in the
• Effective chronic disease
management depends more
on people than doctors
• Individual preferences matter
to the outcomes of healthcare
• Healthcare should be about
improving people’s lives not
just providing a service
• Current evidence for more
individual control in health is
limited but positive

20. Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE
Outside the State: the civil society
My first social
business was about
helping people repair
the damage done to
them by public
services

21. My second social business is about
helping to liberate people inside public
services
...to ‘step out’ into the needs-
marketplace

22. We have reached
peak state:
The era of ever-
more politically
directed spend is
over

23. This is what
public
services feel
like to a
great many
people who
depend on
them

24. Question
So how do we
provide
personalised
services for
all these
people?

25. Answer
plurality of
provision
AND
robust protection
for diverse,
inclusive public
service markets

26. Coalition’s
Dilemma
Big Society =
Small Scale
Local
Diverse
Co-produced,
Innovative
Entrepreneurial

27. Coalition’s Dilemma
Reality could =
Efficiency agenda
Private Monopoly
Low innovation
Low levels
of social capital

28. Which will Prevail?
Right to
Any Willing
Provider
Public Services
Vs. Challenge and
Right to Run
(in the Localism
White Paper
Bill)
Social Value Bill

29. • Support the emergence of
genuine - social enterprise
providers
• Provide a bulwark against
private monopolies
• Create for mutual
ownership to show its
benefits
• Demand higher levels of
social capital and co-
production

30. Dr Pippa Murray
A Fair Start: a personalised pathway for
disabled children and their families

31. Personalised Pathway

32. I am
excited about
personalisation as I
think it can really change
things for disabled people.
Personal budgets have
allowed me to have more
control over my own
support and

33. But, what do we need to consider
• What do we mean by
fairness?
• What are our core
values?
• How do keep our values
at the centre of our
innovations?

34. Simon Duffy
Family Security: reforming tax and
The Current tax-benefit system:
• Poor incentives - undermines citizenship,
earning, saving, personal development and risk-
taking
• Wrong focus - undermines family life, women and
children
• No rights - does not establish clear and
transparent securities that are essential for
citizenship

35. The current system panders to critical
voters and abandons any universal

37. We need a new deal - one we understand
1. Focus on family security - remove stigma and
complexity
2. Integrate tax and benefits - remove stigma and
complexity
3. Take means-testing out of benefits - we’ve
already paid our taxes
4. Define minimum level of eligibility for all -
transparently define a level sufficient for citizenship
5. Constitutional rights to support and control -
clear law that can be tested and protected
6. Robust organisational framework - escape the era
of ‘organisational fixes’ and the on-going fiddling

38. We will do the right thing
-
eventually -
after we’ve tried every
feasible alternative
Honour can exist
anywhere, love can exist
anywhere,
but justice can exist only
among people who found
their relationships upon
it.

39. Emails for Fellows: A Big Thank
You to everyone
pippa@ibkinitiatives.com
at BDB for
clare@foundationforfamilies.org.uk supporting this
event -
craig@stepping-out.biz especially Liz,
Alexandra,
vidhya.alakeson@resolutionfoundatio
Angela, David &
n.org
Nigel
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