We’ve all heard of the long-term economic plan. Now let’s have a long-term social justice plan

May 9, 2016 by

by David Burrowes MP, Conservative Home:

As Conservatives move on from celebrations in Scotland or commiserations in London, we need to keep banging on about social justice. Over 150 MPs have joined the Compassionate Conservatives Caucus which I helped to establish in February. Last month’s disability cuts and the fallout from Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation have sparked further interest in social justice. And the emerging consensus is that social justice needs to be the Party’s uniting mission after the EU Referendum.

The Prime Minister has set out the mission in his excellent “all out assault on poverty” Party Conference speech last October, which he followed up in his January speech this year on life chances.  However, despite our record in tackling social injustice, good speeches will not bridge our credibility gap.  We need to walk alongside, understand and respond to the complex challenges of poverty. We can draw upon the expertise of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) Alliance in providing a voice and making a difference for those who have experienced disadvantage first-hand.

The Life Chances Strategy and measures to implement will need to be embedded across Government, and will need to track all the common and often connected pathways of poverty – family breakdown, educational failure, worklessness, addiction and serious personal debt. Adopting that old Heineken advert, it needs to reach parts of government and society that other strategies cannot reach.

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