Social Policy Underprivileged Children

The term social policy refers to a set of guidelines, policies, legislation, principles and activities that essentially affect human welfare. The development of these policies comes from within the communities; the policies need to develop to meet the needs, welfare and wellbeing of the population, from local government to national government (Alcock 2003).
Social policy was introduced after the Second World War; there was a desperate need for key public services at this time. In its very early days it was based on William Beveridges (1942) report on the ‘five giants’, disease, idleness, ignorance, squalor and want. According to Beveridge (1942) to tackle these problems would be essential to the reconstruction of society after the war. But are the policies that have
However, social exclusion is often linked to mental health issues and underprivileged children may suffer with ill health, so the National Health Service policy, and the children’s act could solve these problems but the pattern clearly shows that not one problem can be solved by one policy, because of the complexity of each individuals problem there may be need for a multitude of policies working together to make progression, otherwise the pattern of problems just goes on and on. Policies such as housing benefit cuts are a prime example of a policy that is promoting saving the economy money but the flip side is people have less money to live on because of higher rent or having to move their families to a cheaper area (May et al