Reflections on the development and work of the Social Security Advisory Committee

Abstract

Over the past two decades, there have been three articles in different academic journals giving accounts of the role and remit of the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) and its contribution to policy making (Logie, 1989; Bett, 1994; Ogus, 1998). The aim of the present article is to describe SSAC’s current remit, role and activities, to examine how these have developed over its lifetime and to discuss SSAC’s contribution to policy making today.