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Social policy under new labour, What were the success and failures of…
Social policy under new labour
What were the success and failures of social policy between 1997 and 2007
Young people
Success
National expansion in the provision of university education, with the aim of sending 50% of all students to university
Creation of the New deal for young people
Connexions service worked to help young people plan their future.
Work on ending child poverty
Creation of the social inclusion unit
Failure
Number of NEETs had increased by 20% by 2007
The new ABSO were mainly used against those under the age of 17, with 46% of them going to this demographic by 2005
Economic equality
The new labour brand was less focused in on economic inequality and was extremely reluctant to increase taxation in order to redistribute
This led to overall inequality increasing during this period
However there was some work to reduce the most extreme poverty
introduction of child tax credits allowed for the reduction of child poverty by a quarter by 2005
Introduction of the minimum wage
Programmes were set up to put more people into the workforce, targeting particular groups. Using tools like advice and subsidisation
Minority groups
Failure
Many argued that immigrants were not being properly intergrated into british society and not accepting british values
Terrorist attacks in 2005
Labour struggled to ensure that immigration had a high level of support in the country, and the issue continued to grow, also led to the migration watch organisation.
Success
Urban areas became increasingly multicultural, with mosques becoming a common sight
Paul Boateng became the first black cabinet minister
People became proud of the genuine multicultural society that was being created
Creation of the secretary of state for local government and communities
Workers rights
Labour continued to distance themselves from the trade union movement and were often critical of strike action,which arguably meant that workers remained underrepresented
Labour also continued to use PFI in order to complete projects, which could lead to workers loosing certain rights.
However labour did work to help these workers into the private sector
Number of those in the trade unions movement fell during the labour government from 29% to 26%
Opted into the social chapter which meant that workers were able to gain much greater rights, such as that of maternity leave. However certain provisions were continued to be left, such as that of maximum worker hours