Alison Garnham
Alison Garnham
Alison Garnham has been Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) since September 2010. Prior to this she was the CEO of Daycare Trust and was previously, for nine years, the Director of Policy at One Parent Families (now Gingerbread). In her early career, she worked for nearly ten years as a welfare rights adviser in Citizens Advice Bureaux and for women’s organisations and local voluntary sector organisations before, in 1989, joining CPAG (for the first time) where she co-authored a number of publications about the Child Support Act. She has subsequently written about childcare, lone parenthood and child poverty. Before joining One Parent Families she was Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) where she has also been an Honorary Research Fellow. She was for nine years a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Publications
Garnham, A and Knights, E, (1993) Child Support Handbook 1993/94, First Edition, CPAG
Garnham, A and Knights, E, (1994) Child Support Handbook 1994/95, Second Edition, CPAG
Garnham, A and Knights, E, (1994) Putting the Treasury First, The Truth About Child Support, CPAG
Knights, E, Garnham, A and McDowell, (1995) J, Child Support Handbook 1995/96, Third Edition, CPAG
Knights E, Blackwell J, Cox S, and Garnham A (1998) Child Support Handbook 1998/99, Sixth Edition, CPAG
MacDermott T, Garnham A and Holtermann S (1998) Real Choices For Lone Parents and their Children, CPAG
NCOPF Contribution (1998) Response to the Government’s Green Paper, New Ambitions for our Country: A New Contract for Welfare, Social Security Consortium
Davies M (Ed) (2000) Chapter on one-parent families, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work, Oxford: Blackwell
NCOPF (2000) (2001) (2002) (2003) One Parent Families Today – the facts, London: OPF
Howard M, Garnham A, Fimister G and Veit-Wilson J (2001) Poverty the Facts, London: CPAG
Foreword to Sutherland H (2003) One-parent families, poverty and Labour policy, London: OPF
Garnham A (2007) Work over welfare: Lessons from America? CPAG Policy Briefing – June 2007, London: CPAG
Waldfogel J and Garnham A (2008) Childcare and Child Poverty York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Garnham A and Knights E (2008) Childcare Futures London: Daycare Trust
Garnham A and Knights E (2008) Back to the future – the case for universal childcare, in Childcare Futures, London: Daycare Trust
Garnham A (2009) Child Poverty and Childcare, London: End Child Poverty
Garnham A and Campbell-Barr V (2010) Parents and childcare: a review of what parents want, London: EHRC
Garnham A (2017) Austerity, social security and child poverty in: Almqvist K and Thomas I (2017) The future of the welfare state, Stockholm, Sweden: Ax:son Johnson Foundation
Garnham A (2020) Progress made and policy in retreat; in Tucker J (Ed) 2020 vision – ending child poverty for good, London: Child Poverty Action Group.
Garnham A (2020) After the pandemic: covid-19 and social security reform; IPPR Progressive Review, Volume 27(1), Summer 2020, London: Wiley.
Plus numerous blogs and articles as CEO of Child Poverty Action Group, www.cpag.org.uk.