Welfare reform under austerity: What might Australia learn from the UK's Universal Credit and Work Program?
Event details
Public Lecture
Date & time
Wednesday 20 March 2013
5.30pm–7.00pm
Venue
Acton Lecture Theatre, #132 JG Crawford Building, ANU
Speaker
Professor Dan Finn, Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth, UK
Contacts
Throughout 2013, the HC Coombs Policy Forum will be hosting a series of events to debate and progress thinking on the workforce participation challenges that Australia faces now and in the future. Please join us for the next of these on Wednesday 20th March with Professor Finn from the University of Portsmouth in the UK.
On coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition Government in the UK embarked on a major welfare reform agenda including the introduction of the Work Program and Universal Credit. Professor Finn will provide an update on how these policy changes are being implemented, describe their early impacts and provide an overview of the next wave of reform, as well as reflect on implications for Australian reform.
Dan Finn is Professor of Social Inclusion at the University of Portsmouth and Associate Director at the independent Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion. He has written extensively on activation policies, labour market programmes, reform of public employment services and the implementation of welfare to work strategies. Dan has a particular interest in contracted out employment services and has completed studies of such reforms in the UK, USA, the Netherlands and Australia. Dan has undertaken, supervised, and managed a wide range of research projects, and has been a special adviser for parliamentary inquires and consultant for the World Bank, European Commission and OECD.
This event is presented by the HC Coombs Policy Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, in partnership with Jobs Australia.
For more information on the HC Coombs Policy Forum visit: crawford.anu.edu.au/hc-coombs
For more information on Jobs Australia visit: ja.com.au
This lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided prior to the lecture, from 5pm in the level 1 foyer, just outside Acton Theatre.
The video of this lecture will be available shortly.
» presentation slides (PDF,3.35MB)
On coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition Government in the UK embarked on a major welfare reform agenda including the introduction of the Work Program and Universal Credit. Professor Finn will provide an update on how these policy changes are being implemented, describe their early impacts and provide an overview of the next wave of reform, as well as reflect on implications for Australian reform.
Dan Finn is Professor of Social Inclusion at the University of Portsmouth and Associate Director at the independent Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion. He has written extensively on activation policies, labour market programmes, reform of public employment services and the implementation of welfare to work strategies. Dan has a particular interest in contracted out employment services and has completed studies of such reforms in the UK, USA, the Netherlands and Australia. Dan has undertaken, supervised, and managed a wide range of research projects, and has been a special adviser for parliamentary inquires and consultant for the World Bank, European Commission and OECD.
This event is presented by the HC Coombs Policy Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, in partnership with Jobs Australia.
For more information on the HC Coombs Policy Forum visit: crawford.anu.edu.au/hc-coombs
For more information on Jobs Australia visit: ja.com.au
This lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided prior to the lecture, from 5pm in the level 1 foyer, just outside Acton Theatre.
The video of this lecture will be available shortly.
» presentation slides (PDF,3.35MB)
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