Tory ideologically founded, divisive and self-serving attacks on welfare and the devalued groups it serves is a punitive approach to welfare reform and it generally has the opposite effect to that promised, creating additional bureaucratic costs and waste, and setting one group against another. This is a deliberate undermining of social cohesion, cooperation and collective responsibility. It isolates many, who by common consent need support. This approach is also designed to deter those people with legitimate entitlement to support, and unnecessarily and inappropriately harass, stigmatise, scapegoat and denigrate those it should be helping. Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens. In other words, it was conceived to alleviate absolute poverty and meet basic survival needs. This is based on a model of human developmental psychology focusing on the recognised stages of growth in humans, and is founded on the central idea that the most basic level of needs must be met before the individual may be motivated to fulfil any other needs and betterment. As a minimal condition for making choices and being responsible, people must have all of their basic needs met. For example, a homeless person’s job choices might be constrained by the lack of an address for correspondence or even a place to take a shower. Such concepts are an integral premise of equality policies and human rights.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:40:01 +0000
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