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SUMMARY:The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial 
 regions - Professor Christina Beatty\, Sheffield Hallam University
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CONTACT:Ingrid Cizaite
DESCRIPTION:Welfare reform has been a defining feature of UK Government po
 licy and its deficit reduction plan since 2010.  The intention is to creat
 e a welfare system which is fit for the 21st century: fairer\, simpler\, p
 roviding a transitional support system in times of need\, incentivising wo
 rk\, protecting the most vulnerable and affordable to the taxpayer.  In re
 ality\, a major overhaul of the system has been instigated and successive 
 Budgets have reduced entitlement and restricted eligibility across a range
  of working age benefits.  Collectively\, these reforms are set to deliver
  the largest reduction in the income of the UK’s poorest families in mod
 ern times.\n\nGovernment policy documents have paid scant attention to the
  cumulative impact of the reforms as a whole or the spatial distribution o
 f the financial losses incurred.  Britain's economic geography is\, howeve
 r\, key to understanding the uneven impact of welfare reform.  Christina w
 ill present evidence on the extent to which areas facing the brunt of welf
 are reform now are the same places that have experienced the destruction o
 f industrial jobs since the 1980s.  The legacy of the past\, therefore\, c
 ontinues to impact on communities in older industrial Britain today.\n\nCh
 ristina is a Professor at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Rese
 arch at Sheffield Hallam University.  She leads the Centre's Data Analysis
  and Policy Team and has over 20 years' experience undertaking applied pol
 icy and evidence based research for a range of funders including central a
 nd local government\, social housing providers\, charities and ESRC.  She 
 is interested in the\, often unintended\, spatial impact of policy decisio
 ns on different types of places.  In recent years her work with Professor 
 Steve Fothergill has shed light on the uneven impacts of welfare reform to
  both places and people\, raising questions about whether in reality we ar
 e 'all in this together'. 
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 4
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