The former Minister for Welfare Reform, Frank Field MP, will be giving a free public lecture on “Preventing poor children from becoming poor adults” at the University of Cambridge on Thursday (3 March).
The former Minister for Welfare Reform, Frank Field MP, will be giving a free public lecture on “Preventing poor children from becoming poor adults” at the University of Cambridge on Thursday (3 March).
The talk will take place in the lecture theatre at Peterhouse at 6.30pm, is open to all and free to attend.
It is the second in a new series of presentations hosted by the University of Cambridge and entitled “Shaping the Future”.
Each talk aims to give audiences the opportunity to hear from, and question, leading public figures about some of the most pressing issues affecting the political and economic life of the UK. The speakers are drawn from across the political spectrum.
Mr. Field has spent much of his life dealing with issues related to poverty and social mobility. In the 1970s he worked as the Director of the Child Poverty Action Group, which he helped to develop as one of the premier pressure groups in the country. He was also the Director of the Low Pay Unit for six years, which was the first body to campaign for a national minimum wage.
In 1979 he became the MP for Birkenhead and during the 1980s served as Shadow Education and Social Security spokesman, before taking up the chairmanship of the Social Security Select Committee in 1990.
He was Minister for Welfare Reform in Tony Blair’s first Government and has since served as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, between 2002 and 2005.
Peterhouse, where the lecture will take place, is located on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, close to the city centre.
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