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Alan Milburn Interviewed the Real Reason for the Misery of Work PovertyJournal of the Child Poverty Action Group • Issue 147 • Winter 2014 Alan Milburn interviewed The real reason for the misery of work assessments How can we reduce child poverty without improving its prevention? Policy publications and CPAG briefings and reports from CPAG consultation responses The following reports can all be downloaded from Read these and more consultation responses and www.cpag.org.uk/policy-reports briefings at www.cpag.org.uk/briefings-responses Independent Review of JSA Sanctions: CPAG’s Let’s All Have Lunch! , September 2013 response , January 2014 Childcare and Maternal Employment in Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee London , September 2013 Inquiry into Housing Costs Support , October 2013 The Cost of a Child in 2013 , August 2013 Submission to the ‘Tax-free Childcare’ Will Universal Credit Work? Consultation , October 2013 Written by CPAG for the TUC, May 2013 Localisation of the Social Fund: countdown to The Double Lockout: how low-income families change , March 2013 will be locked out of fair living standards, January CPAG’s Response to the Child Poverty 2013 Measurement Consultation , February 2013 Ending Child Poverty by 2020 Judicial Review: proposals for reform. CPAG’s Progress made and lessons learned response to the Ministry of Justice consultation, Edited by Lindsay Judge January 2013 96 pages 978 1 906076 82 5 2012 £10.00 CPAG Briefing on Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill, Young People’s Thoughts on Child Poverty January 2013 Policy , December 2012 CPAG Briefing for Autumn Statement 2012, December 2012 We Can Work It Out: parental employment in London , November 2012 Food Poverty in London , October 2012. Evidence to the London Assembly’s inquiry into food poverty. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: early impacts of welfare reform on London , November The Implementation of the Child Poverty Act: 2012 examining child poverty strategies in London local authorities , October 2012 The Implementation of the Child Poverty Act: examining child poverty strategies in London local authorities, October 2012 Help us make a difference: The Cost of a Child in the Twenty-first make a donation Century , September 2012 CPAG promotes action for the prevention and Going Hungry? Young people’s experience of relief of poverty among children and families with free school meals , June 2012 children. To achieve this, CPAG aims to raise Save Child Benefit , March 2012 awareness of the causes, extent, nature and impact of poverty, and strategies for its Poverty in Scotland 2011 eradication and prevention; bring about positive Towards a more equal Scotland? policy changes for families with children in poverty; Edited by John H McKendrick, Gerry Mooney, and enable those eligible for income maintenance John Dickie and Peter Kelly to have access to their full entitlement. If you are 248 pages 978 1 906076 59 7 20 11 £ 11 .00 not already supporting us, please consider making a donation, or ask for details of our membership Ending Child Poverty schemes, training courses and publications. A manifesto for success 54 pages 978 1 906076 37 5 2009 • Send a cheque, postal order or CAF voucher payable to ‘Child Poverty Action Group’. Coping with Complexity • Donate by credit card online at Child and adult poverty www.cpag.org.uk. • Set up a standing order through your bank to Mark Tomlinson and Robert Walker make a regular gift. 112 pages 978 1 906076 36 8 2009 £11.00 • Make a will and leave us a legacy . Out of Reach Gift Aid it. Donations to CPAG qualify for tax Benefits for disabled children relief. For every £1 that you donate we can claim Gabrielle Preston with Mark Robertson an extra 28p. 132 pages 978 1 901698 99 2 2006 £ 11 .00 For more information visit our website Printed copies are available to order from our www.cpag.org.uk , email [email protected] online shop at or write to CPAG, 94 White Lion Street, http://onlineservices.cpag.org.uk/shop London N 1 9PF. editorial contents Child pove rt y strate gy must tackle In brief 2 current headwinds Diary 4 As Poverty goes to press, we have not yet had sight of the Open space 5 government’s next three-year child poverty strategy that it is obliged to produce under the terms of the Child Poverty Act 2010. Interview 6 As the strategy must be laid before parliament by early April, the Alan Milburn talks to Lindsay Judge window for consultation is slowly closing, and opportunities for and Moussa Haddad interested parties to influence the plan become more limited every day. But the delay is perhaps unsurprising – for how can a The real reason for the misery of 10 government that is presiding over a set of policies projected to work assessments Kaliya Frank investigates impoverish an additional 450,000 children over the course of this parliament not find the exercise anything but a challenge? How can we reduce child poverty 14 Against this background, we were very lucky to have the chance to without improving its prevention? speak to a key player in the child poverty debate – Alan Milburn, Adrian Sinfield puts the case for better chair of the independent Child Poverty and Social Mobility prevention Commission. In our interview, he highlights some of the key issues Pove rt y watch 18 he believes the new strategy must grapple with. In his view, policy must be galvanised to tackle in-work poverty, while housing policy Research review 20 is ‘the dog that hasn’t yet barked’. Alan Milburn also acknowledges, however, that the new strategy Last word 21 will have to work against ‘headwinds’, including the substantial cuts that have been (and still may be) made to social security. He was also clear that the Commission would tolerate no further Pove rt y is the policy journal of the Child Poverty Action delays on the child poverty measurement question. After a year in Group. It aims to carry articles and features that will inform, stimulate and develop the debate on the nature which the government has failed to account against any child and causes of poverty in its various forms and on the poverty benchmark, the time has clearly come to set out the action required, especially by governments, to relieve and measures that it will use in the future to judge its actions against. ultimately prevent it. Our objective is to publish material that achieves a high standard of analysis, without Our two subsequent feature articles in this issue of Poverty explore sacrificing clarity or accessibility, to specialist and non- the other ‘headwinds’ that currently run counter to effective action specialist alike. on child poverty. Kaliya Frank begins by digging deep into the practice and management culture at Atos Healthcare, exploring Editorial staff Editor: Lindsay Judge/Moussa Haddad how decisions about employment support allowance are made. Production editor: Alison Key She shows that, despite ministers denying that targets exist, in Diary: Caroline Paskell practice assessors are required to operate within a narrow band of Research review: Moussa Haddad Advertising and circulation: Liz Dawson ‘norms’. If they stray beyond these boundaries, they are criticised and closely monitored and, as a result, de facto targets emerge. The views expressed in Pove rt y are not necessarily those of CPAG. We welcome articles and other In our final feature, Adrian Sinfield argues that we should move contributions from our readers. away from the notion of poverty reduction and pay more attention Pove rt y is published three times a year by CPAG, to poverty prevention. Few would disagree that upstream 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF Telephone: 020 7837 7979 intervention is eminently more sensible than downstream mitigation [email protected] but, despite this, the child poverty debate often speaks more about www.cpag.org.uk the latter than the former. By focusing on prevention, spending on Registered Company No. 1993854 children could once again be framed as an investment, moving us Charity No. 294841 (England and Wales); No. SC039339 (Scotland) away from the current mood that views family benefits as a VAT No. 690 808117 deadweight and hence the first port of call for cuts. Pove rt y is sent to all CPAG members – write for details We hope, then, that when the next child poverty strategy is or visit www.cpag.org.uk/membership published it sets out a genuine vision for the next three years, and © Child Poverty Action Group 2014 a sensible plan of action. If it started from the view that investing ISSN 0 0032 5856 in children is critical, went on to set out credible policies to tackle Cover photos: Jess Hur d/ Reportdigital in-work poverty, the education gap, childcare and housing, and Design/Page make-up: [email protected] Print: Calverts, [email protected] finally set out a way that practice and culture in key agencies This edition of Pove rt y has been printed on Cyclus could be changed (as all our contributors propose), that would a Offset 100% recycled paper, kindly donated to CPAG by be a strategy of which to be proud. We wait in hope. I Arjowiggins Graphic and Calverts Press. Poverty 147 1 in brief is claiming that real earnings are finally natural interdependence. They point to Child benefit out of the doldrums. the way the ‘bedroom tax’ is forcing some to move away from family and revelations It bases its assertion on calculations that community networks, for example. use post-tax, rather than pre-tax, Moreover, they question whether the Go back to 1976 and a vicious fight was earnings, arguing that this is a better government currently recognises the raging about the introduction of child indicator of what people actually have in social and economic value of unpaid benefit.
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