The Welfare System

Welfare system is started by department of Work and Pensions agencies all over the country,  they have made the strategies and aimed at:

• people who receive benefit
• people who need help to get work
• disabled people
• older people
• people who get the State Pension.

The Department for Work and Pensions is very significant for the government, they are responsible for giving the benefits to workers and it is the most expensive system. For instance, the women at 60 or the men at 65 that they could get relatively low state retirement pensions. 

The welfare system also bring some benefits to particular people, for example, according to directgov (2010) ,"There are two separate amounts, with a higher amount for your eldest (or only) child. You get £20.30 a week for your eldest child and £13.40 a week for each of your other children."

Reference:

 Directgov.com (2010) What is Child Benefit?. Available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/ChildBenefitandChildTrustFund/Childbenefits/Gettingstarted/ChildBenefitandwhoqualifies/DG_073770 (Accessed: 21/05/11).

DWP.gov.uk (2011) Homepage. Available at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/. (Accessed: 21/05/11).

Media - TV

After i getting this topic, i try to observe the channel on the television, i found many channels on TV such as BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, CHANNEL 4 and CHANNEL 5.

BBC channel report many news candidly and include some international news as well, there are many different programmes on these channel such as BBC News, Asia Today ， Hard Talk, Earth Report, Weekend World, This week and so on.

ITV channel play some variety shows and some people interested in.

Channel 4 and 5 play some programme about music and technology.

The CCTV has 13 channels in china, it stand for the China Central Television. It is the most popular channel in china. It is a channel that is controlled by government, so it is difficult to watch some bad news about government from this channel.

Different CCTV channel plays different programmes. For instance, CCTV1 2 3 4 plays the news, CCTV 5 is a sport channel, CCTV 6 is a movie channel and CCTV 7 is a child channel. There are almost 4 hours advertising time for each channel.


Reference: http://cctv.cntv.cn/