Have the two-child limit to welfare policy and cuts to contraceptive services in Britain impacted abortion rates and household poverty?

英国的二孩福利政策限制和避孕服务削减是否影响了堕胎率和家庭贫困？

• 批准号: ES/W013177/1
• 负责人: REBECCA GEARY
• 金额: $ 30.44万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW013177%2F1
• 关键词: two; child; limit; welfare; policy

Have the two-child limit to welfare policy and cuts to contraceptive services in Britain impacted abortion rates and household poverty?Aim of this projectTo find out how recent changes to the benefits system and contraception services have affected rates of abortion and household poverty. Why this is importantMany unplanned pregnancies end in abortion. There are more than 200,000 abortions each year in England and Wales, with higher rates among people living in poorer areas. The Government's austerity programme, which started in 2010, aimed to save the Government money by cutting money available through welfare benefits and reducing money local authorities receive to provide public services. In 2017, they introduced a policy where third or subsequent children are not entitled to the "child element" of support in the benefit system (called the two-child limit). This is worth £2,780 per child per year. Recent evidence suggests that this policy is pushing some people to end wanted pregnancies, to avoid being pushed (further) into poverty. Funding for contraceptive services has also been cut, potentially increasing unplanned pregnancies and abortions. There is an urgent need to look at whether these policies are driving increases in abortions, or if larger families are being pushed into poverty by continuing subsequent pregnancies, and if some groups of people (e.g. single parents, younger parents, ethnic minority women) have been more affected than others. This will help the Government to design better policies to support individuals and families. What we are planning to do1. We will review information published on changes to child-related welfare support policies and abortion services. We will hold workshops with members of the public to understand how current social welfare policies impact on pregnancy decision making. Through this we will produce detailed policy summaries (e.g., eligibility criteria) and a map of how these policies may have affected individuals and families.2. We will analyse national statistics and large-scale survey data to measure changes in abortion rates and poverty since the introduction of the two-child limit. We will compare abortion rates before and after the introduction of the two-child benefits cap, among women likely to be affected by the policy and those who are less likely to be affected.3. We will look at how abortion rates have changed since changes to funding of contraception services, by analysing national statistics and data on spending on and use of contraceptive services. We will look at whether some groups of women have been more affected by these changes. How we will involve members of the public and other stakeholdersWe will hold workshops with members of the public to develop our research plans, to review the policy changes and to generate recommendations for the Government, and we will invite people to become public advisors on this project. We will also hold separate workshops with other stakeholders including abortion healthcare providers, charity and advocacy organisations, MPs, researchers, and representatives from local government. How we will support people involved in this projectWe will offer training in understanding and communicating research evidence to support individuals with lived experience to contribute to national inquiries and debates about policies that affect women and children. How we will share our findingsWith the members of the public involved with this project, we will write one-page summaries of our results. We will submit these to parliamentary committees that oversee these policies and share them with abortion providers and anti-poverty advocates. We will produce and share infographics through trusted organisations on social media and put clear summaries on the University of Liverpool website and other online forums. We will publish our findings in research journals and make our data available for other researchers.

对福利政策的限制和削减英国避孕服务的限制影响了堕胎率和家庭贫困吗？该项目的目的是找出最近对福利系统和避孕服务的变化如何影响堕胎和家庭贫困的速度。为什么这是重要的人计划外怀孕以堕胎结束。在英格兰和威尔士，每年有超过200,000次堕胎，居住在贫困地区的人们中的比率更高。政府的紧缩计划始于2010年，目的是通过通过福利福利削减可用的资金来节省政府资金，并降低地方当局提供的公共服务收到的资金。在2017年，他们引入了一项政策，其中第三名或随后的儿童无权获得福利系统中的“子女”（称为双孩子限制）。这是每个孩子每年价值2,780英镑。最近的证据表明，这项政策正在促使某些人结束怀孕，以免被（进一步）陷入贫困。避孕服务的资金也已被削减，可能会增加计划外的怀孕和堕胎。迫切需要考虑这些政策是否正在推动堕胎的增加，或者是否通过持续随后的怀孕将较大的家庭陷入贫困，以及某些人（例如，单亲父母，年轻父母，少数民族妇女）是否受到了比其他人的影响更大。这将有助于政府制定更好的政策来支持个人和家庭。我们打算做什么。我们将审查有关与儿童相关福利支持政策和堕胎服务更改的信息。我们将与公众举办研讨会，以了解当前的社会福利政策如何影响怀孕决策。通过此，我们将制作详细的政策摘要（例如，资格标准），以及这些政策如何影响个人和家庭的地图2。我们将分析国家统计数据和大规模调查数据，以衡量自引入双孩子限制以来的堕胎率和贫困的变化。我们将比较可能受到该政策影响的妇女和那些不太可能受到影响的妇女的堕胎率。3。我们将通过分析有关避孕服务的国家统计数据和数据的数据，从而研究堕胎率如何变化。我们将研究一些妇女是否受到这些变化的影响。我们将如何让公众和其他利益相关者与公众举办研讨会，以制定我们的研究计划，审查政策变更并为政府提出建议，我们将邀请人们成为该项目的公共顾问。我们还将与其他利益相关者进行单独的研讨会，包括堕胎医疗保健提供者，慈善机构和倡导组织，国会议员，研究人员，并由地方政府代表。我们将如何支持参与该项目的人们将提供理解和传达研究证据的培训，以支持具有现场经验的个人，以促进有关影响妇女和儿童的政策的国家询问和辩论。我们将如何与参与该项目的公众成员分享我们的发现，我们将撰写成果的一页摘要。我们将把这些提交给监督这些政策的议会委员会，并与堕胎提供者和反贫困倡导者分享。我们将在社交媒体上通过受信任的组织制作和共享信息图表，并在利物浦大学网站和其他在线论坛上进行明确的摘要。我们将在研究期刊上发布我们的发现，并为其他研究人员提供数据。