All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not

Abstract

In advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review announcements coming this Wednesday, it is already clear that the UK’s welfare state faces a seismic shift at a scale unseen since the late 1940s. We asked a range of LSE experts to give us some first thoughts on policy areas that are already in play – with more to come as the impacts of the spending cuts becomes clearer