Social Protection and Vulnerability, Risk and Exclusion Across the Life-Cycle
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The provision of basic social protection to citizens from the „cradle to the grave‟ (Beveridge Report, 1942) was the fanfare aim of the welfare state system created in the UK in the post-1945 period. Since this expression was first coined, the concept of addressing the needs of a population „across the life-cycle‟ has been in common use by social policymakers in a range of contexts, and with varying definitions.
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