The Public Health Crisis Created by UK Social Policy Reforms

An overview of the damaging social policies that have targeted sick and disabled people.

Author: Mo Stewart

Mo Stewart gave the following talk as part of the webinar series Interventions in Disability Politics, hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE at the University of Brighton on the 29th May 2024. Her talk reviews the long history of damaging public policy which combines ideologically driven attacks on fundamental principles of the welfare state and negative influence of business and academic interests.

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