Date: February 3
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: SSRU Seminar Room, 18 Woburn Square, UCL Institute of Education, WC1H 0NR
Abstract
Polina will present some of the findings from the report she co-authored with Dr Tania Burchardt and Dr Polly Vizard on the Coalition’s Record on adult social care. This report forms part of a series of papers within the Social Policy in Cold Climate programme, examining aspects of the social policy record of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition in England from 2010-2015, with a particular focus on poverty, inequality and the distribution of social and economic outcomes. The presentation will start with a brief assessment of the situation the Coalition inherited from Labour in terms of adult social care, and then move to a description of the Coalition’s aims and the policies enacted. It will then describe trends in public spending on adult social care and the outcomes for those affected, concluding with some thoughts on what it might mean for the future of adult social care and the challenges that current Government is facing.
Speaker
Dr Polina Obolenskaya is a Research Officer in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics. She specialises in the analysis of social change using quantitative approaches and has been involved with a 4 year long project at CASE called “Social Policy in the Cold Climate” (funded by the Joseph Roundtree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and Trust for London). Polina’s background is in Sociology and Economics and her research interests range from life course analysis to economic and social inequalities.
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