Other speakers are Professor Hugh Bochel, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lincoln; Professor Sir John Hills, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and Co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE; Professor Ruth Lupton, Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, and Dr Polly Vizard, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at CASE, LSE. The respondents for the event are Nick Timmins (The King's Fund, Institute for Government, and former public policy editor at the Financial Times) and Peter Taylor Gooby (Research Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent). The event will be chaired by Professor Coretta Phillips, Associate Professor of Social Policy at the LSE.