gov responses to inequalities essay (uk)

Question 1

Introduction

Answer 1

background- oters participating in 2025 election looking for candidates to tackle inequlities such as low pay and poverty
Factors- factors govs attempts are free prescriptions, universal credit, free school meals and the smoking ban
loa- Argue how gov respones to wealth and health have mixed success

Question 2

para one, free prescriptions

Answer 2

P- one gov designed to tackle health,
E- intorduced in scotland april 2011 and established to abolish fees for all prescriptions
E- Tool to reduce health ensures long term conditions continue mediaction,
A- could result in NHS saving mases of money in long term as people with disease/illness will live longer
H- not effective many people that can afford it are still getting it free
E- damaging as money could be used to fund NHS
E- Before 2011, people afford perscriptions pay £3, raised £57 m for underfunded areas NHS
A- proves rich people pay financially benifit NHS immensley
C- Free prescroptions been effective in tackling inequalities to a moderate extent

Question 3

Para 2, universal credit

Answer 3

P- universal credit
E-benifit system suppot low paid unemployed,
E- In 2019 2.6m where relying on uc
A- helpful to low paid tops up workers salaries. unpaid, moivates to get job
H- uc didnt cater to mentally ill
E- equivalent to getting six benifits as one big payment, overwhelming, not want/know how to send payments to landlords or cba
E- “indapentant” 1.3m receiving uc whilst dealing with mental illness
A- unemployed/low paid dealing with mental health arent getting financial support deserve
C- uc only supports some lp or unemp generally successful in tackling inequalities

Question 4

para 3, free school meals

Answer 4

p- further more, free school meals
E- serice offered to 1-3 pupils
E-134,500 1-3 pupils having nutricious meals saving families 380 per eligable child
A- especially helpful cost of living rising.
H- many parents/famalies struggle to feed nutricious meals when not in school
E- lots families havent got funds to fully feed children so free meals extended into holidays benifit exceptionally
E- many schools offer own meal schemes during holidays support worse off families
A- The gov one step foward tp support worse off families
C- so, fsm are an effective, could offer more, helps to a great extent

Question 5

Para 4, smoking ban

Answer 5

P- last gov response, smoking ban
E- smoing ban introduced scot march 2006, quickly followed england july 2007, tackle passive smoking, ban stop smoking in public paces reduce second hand smoke, prevent smoking
E- 23% increase quit attempts via NHS
A- proves people smoke engage social aspect of it, banned in public places easier quit
H- although banned many people still heavily smoke
E- smoke ban didnt deter all smokers, majority smoke.
E- lung cancer in women incresed from 60w per 100,000 to 70 since bam
A- demonstartes smoking hard inequality tackle due so many people so addictive
C- helped to a limited extent as many people still engage in smoking

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

majority of gov responses in inequality effective. inequalities like fsm and fp have a moderate result where as uc and sb could use more funding and support which would beinift people immensley . however, school
servives fsm not being taken to advantage.
shoes come people offfered support arent taking it not govs fault