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Author/s:
Eldin Fahmy, Simon Pemberton and Eileen Sutton

This paper summarises findings derived from a series of twenty cognitive interviews conducted with members of the UK general public in June and July 2011 as part of the design process for the PSE: UK main survey questionnaire.

Author/s:
Sarah Payne

Mental health problems can impact on social exclusion as a result of lack of financial resources and because of the effects of illness, including low self-esteem, loss of social contacts due to hospitalisation or the impact of illness on sociability, or the stigma experienced by many of those aff

Author/s:
Grace Kelly and Mary Daly

This paper explores the definition of poverty, based on the concept that people are poor if they are prevented through lack of resources from carrying out obligations that are associated with their social role.

Author/s:
Eldin Fahmy, Simon Pemberton and Eileen Sutton

This report describes the results of a series of fourteen focus groups conducted as part of development work for the PSE: UK survey. This qualitative development work is intended to inform the design of both the necessities Omnibus module and the main-stage PSE living standards survey.

Author/s:
Peter Saunders and Melissa Wong

This paper reports some initial results from a survey of poverty and social exclusion conducted in Australia in 2010.

Nearly 11 million people were at risk of poverty in the UK in 2010 – higher than the EU average – according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Researchers in Antwerp have examined the ‘missing links’ between employment policy and inclusion policy in the European Union. They point to the continuing need for a complementary approach to social transfers and labour market inclusion.

People in general have become much better off in the last 35 years, says a think-tank analysis, with household incomes more than doubling. But although this extra wealth has been shared among all family types, it has been accompanied by a very big increase in inequality.

Researchers in Antwerp have raised the possibility of European Union involvement in setting minimum income levels – while acknowledging the idea currently seems like a political ‘no-go area’ for some richer member states.

Pressure on minimum wages arising from government austerity measures has been highlighted by a European trade union think tank.

The briefing paper examines recent trends in minimum wages across Europe in the light of the economic crisis.

Minimum wage policies based on a single national minimum rate are less effective than others at protecting low-paid workers, according to researchers in Brussels.

The government’s social mobility ‘tsar’ has said middle-class professions such as law, journalism and medicine need to do more to widen their social intake.

Local authorities face a ‘tough challenge’ in taking control of council tax benefit at the same time as it is being cut by 10 per cent, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.

People in poverty and those receiving benefits are depicted negatively in British newspapers compared with newspapers in Denmark and Sweden, according to new research.

The European Commission has warned over the potential impact of benefit cuts on UK poverty, particularly child poverty.

The PSE: UK project team is formed of leading academic researchers in the field of poverty and social exclusion from six UK universities covering England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, namely: University of Bristol (lead), Heriot-Watt University, The Open University, Queen’s University Belfast,

The PSE UK research in Northern Ireland finds that levels of deprivaion and financial hardship are more extensive in Northern Ireland than the UK as a whole. The research also exposed the deep impact of the troubles on peoples lives.  

The Living Standards in the UK questionnaire covers a wide range of individual and household living standards. You can download the questionnaire itself and the questionnaire annotated with the top level results below.

The Necessities of Life questionnaire examines the public’s perceptions of what are necessities and the importance, or otherwise, attached to services.

 

Presentations of PSE UK research at other conferences

The existing method for measuring child poverty is inadequate, according to a new think-tank report. It says the method fails to acknowledge that poverty is about much more than a lack of income.

UNICEF, the United Nations agency, has highlighted the danger that public spending cuts by the government will reverse progress on reducing UK child poverty.

The report reviews progress made by the world’s wealthiest countries in reducing child poverty and deprivation.

‘Little progress’ seems to have been made in tackling fuel poverty in Northern Ireland, according to a committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly. It says eliminating fuel poverty will require a long-term strategic policy approach.

Conceptual notes are a series of short papers on the key themes of the PSE: UK research, themes which go to the heart of current policy debates on poverty and social exclusion.

An annual survey has found that 14 per cent of parents caring for disabled children are missing meals, and 17 per cent cannot afford to heat their homes.

The government has published a progress report on its social mobility strategy (launched in April 2011).

A think-tank inquiry has been launched into alternative solutions to reduce in-work poverty.

A new report has highlighted the position of 124,000 lone parents with young children who are being forced onto jobseeker’s allowance with only eight weeks’ notice.

A commission report has called for radical simplification of the tax system. It says there should be a single 30 per cent rate of income tax; the basic personal allowance should be raised to £10,000; and national insurance, stamp duty and inheritance tax should all be abolished.

The watchdog for children’s rights in Wales has said it is unlikely child poverty will be eradicated in the country by the official 2020 target.

Over 60 per cent of people who take out payday loans use the money to pay for household bills or other essentials such as food, nappies and petrol, according to a survey conducted by the Consumers’ Association, Which?

A committee of MSPs has backed a Bill designed to limit the impact of the UK government’s welfare reforms on poor and vulnerable groups in Scotland.

A newspaper report has suggested the Prime Minister is considering ordering billions of pounds in extra cuts to social security spending. It says the proposal is contained in a confidential policy paper by Steve Hilton, the outgoing Number Ten adviser.

A think-tank report has said that for more than a decade before the global financial crisis households on low-to-middle incomes relied on borrowing to fund much of their spending.

Around half a million people are expected to lose support as a result of the new ‘personal independence payment’ (PIP) for working-age claimants.

A new academic paper has looked at the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty in 21 European countries with a national minimum wage, together with three states in the USA.

Paying a ‘living wage’ is affordable for big companies in some sectors, including banking, construction, computing and food production, according to a new think-tank report.

The Secretary of State for Education has said he rejects the argument that pupil achievement is overwhelmingly dictated by socio-economic factors – or that schools are powerless to help children succeed if they were born into poverty, disability, or disadvantage.

Sustainable recovery from the financial crisis will require restoring the share of wages in national income to post-war levels, and the breaking-up of concentrations of income and wealth, according to a report by a new think tank.

Most top-tier local authorities in England have not yet produced a child poverty strategy, despite being required to do so under the Child Poverty Act 2010, a study has found.

The survey was carried out by a children’s charity, 4Children.

A trade union analysis has found that the cost of living has been going up faster for poorer than for richer households.

A charity chief has warned of hardening public attitudes to people in poverty, resulting in an increasing divide between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.

An official study has suggested ways in which the credit union sector could expand and modernise. It says credit unions need to show a commitment to change, work more closely together and make greater use of technology.

A new report has highlighted the growing problem of ‘digital exclusion’. It provides new evidence that government efforts to move services online are particularly disadvantaging low-income groups, including older people and those with disabilities.

A new study has warned that relative poverty and inequality are set to rise by 2020 as a result of changes in the structure of employment.

Britain needs a ‘cultural change’ if it is going to cut spending on benefits, according to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Simply ‘cheese slicing’ the budget will not be enough, and he accused previous governments of simply ‘patching up’ a fundamentally broken system.

A trade union pamphlet has called for the restoration of a genuine national insurance system. It says successive governments have been guilty of undermining the system by cutting insurance benefits – and at the same time using contributions as a form of tax.

Homeless people in a London borough face being moved outside their local area into private rented accommodation, rather than being placed on a waiting list for council housing.

A new study has examined how poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland have changed since 2009.

Researchers for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found:

From 1 May 2012, the government has introduced a limit of one year on the time for which contribution-based employment and support allowance (ESA) is paid to those in the ‘work-related activity’ group. Eventually around 700,000 people will lose their entitlement to the benefit as a result.

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