CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: The Conservatives' Record on Early Childhood: Policy, Spending and Outcomes from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020
Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE), joint with Mary Reader (CASE)
Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 18:00
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About this event
Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader will present recent work examining the record of the Conservative Government (2015-2020) on services and cash benefits for young children. They examine the aims and goals of the three Conservative administrations, explore policy changes and spending trends, and look at evidence on early child outcomes, including poverty, early child health indicators and the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. The paper is part of the wider Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes research programme and the authors pay particular attention to what has happened to inequalities in the distribution of spending, access to services, and outcomes. The analysis stops in early 2020, pre-pandemic and lockdown, but the authors will reflect on how policy change during this five year period affected the early years landscape in early 2020, and hence the ability of families and early years services to face the challenges of subsequent months.
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These seminars are held on Wednesdays in term time at 12:00-13:00
Seminars this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @CASE_LSE for updates.
This seminar series is organised by:
Laura Lane, Email: l.lane@lse.ac.uk
Dr Abigail McKnight, Email: abigail.mcknight@lse.ac.uk
For further information and papers, when available, please contact:
The CASE team Email: case@lse.ac.uk.