Policy paper

Social justice: transforming lives

Social justice: transforming lives is about giving people with multiple disadvantages the support they need to turn their lives around.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions and The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP
• Published: 13 March 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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Social Justice: transforming lives

Ref: ISBN 978-0-10-183142-0, ID 2480410 03/12, Cm. 8314

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Social justice is about making society function better – providing the support and tools to help turn lives around.

This is a challenging new approach to dealing with poverty in all its forms. It is not about income poverty alone. The government believes that the focus on income over the last decades has ignored the root causes of poverty. This has allowed social problems to deepen and become entrenched.

Keep up to date with social justice developments at the Public Service Transformation Network Social Justice site.

Published 13 March 2012