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Social Justice Policy Group Rt Hon Iain Duncan
Smith MP Chairman of Social Justice Policy Group
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Why Social Justice?

• The gap between the worst off and the rest of
  society is growing

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In Breakdown Britain Social Justice is
Conservative

• Over 70 of floating voters defined social
  justice in Conservative terms
• Help for those who genuinely need help
• Help for those who deliver help
• 
  YouGov

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Breakdown Britain's5 Pathways to Poverty

• Family Breakdown
• Educational Failure
• Addictions
• Debt
• Welfare Dependency
• All inter- connected

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Breakdown Britain getting worse

• Family Breakdown
• We have the highest level of family breakdown in
  Europe
• 70 of young offenders come from broken families

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Breakdown Britain getting worse

• Educational Failure
• Over 50,000 children truant every day 46,800
  crimes are committed every year in London by
  children playing truant
• Children in care are ten times as likely to be
  excluded from school as other pupils

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Breakdown Britain getting worse

• Addictions
• Over one in three children under the age of 15
  has taken drugs in the last year
• Alcohol related deaths have increased threefold

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Breakdown Britain getting worse

• Debt Levels
• 1,000,000,000,000
• (One Trillion)

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Breakdown Britain Needs a Second Chance

• Government Departments are impersonal and often
  target and direct when they should learn from
  those worst affected.
• Thats why the voluntary sector have shown they
  can be more effective than the public and private
  sectors in reaching people that others cant
• We need bold initiatives to help smaller
  charities and the voluntary sector to show us
  how to reach those in breakdown Britain

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Does Britain Care About Breakdown?

• Nearly ¾ of floating voters said that of all the
  things the Conservatives might do to show them
  they were ready for Government..
• Demonstrating a genuine belief in Social
  Justice is the most important

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To Deliver Social Justice You Need..

• Strong Families
• Education which leaves no child behind
• Addicts supported to live free of alcohol and
  drugs
• Protection for the vulnerable from spiraling debt
• An end to welfare dependence
• To give people a Second Chance

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• www.povertydebate.com