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Annual Sidney Ball Lecture - COVID-19 and the UK Welfare State: where next for post-pandemic welfare provision?
From a fragmented care system to run-down public health, from insecure essential workers to low pay and poverty, Covid-19 has brought out many of the shortcomings of the welfare state. As pandemic gives way to recession, against a backdrop of Brexit and deficit, it is not easy to be optimistic about the future of public provision.
This lecture takes a step back to focus on the way people and politicians think about welfare. During the past half-century, both discourse and policy have shifted from social cohesion and greater equality towards targeting and social division. The early days of the lockdown cut across this, in a surge of generosity, goodwill and neighbourliness. We consider how the climate of ideas that surrounds and shapes policy is likely to develop. Perhaps the shock of pandemic will leader to a kinder welfare state?
Date:
12 November 2020, 16:00
Venue:
Zoom- See below for registration details
Speaker:
Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent)
Organising department:
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser:
David Humphreys (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Maggie Snowling (President, St John’s College, University of Oxford),
Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford),
Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
http://thesidneyball2020.eventbrite.co.uk/
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Esme Wilks,
Lani Fukada
