Our upcoming webinar series will bring together a range of experts to explore the context of tackling poverty in Scotland. The results of the discussion and debates will be fed back to the Scottish Government, as part of Get Heard Scotland's process of contributing to the next Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Steering Group on Measuring Poverty and Inequality has been tasked with producing a guide on Measuring Social Exclusion which references a lot of our PSE work.
50 per cent of UK households believe they will struggle to meet their financial commitments over the next three months. In the first three weeks after the UK government introduced the ‘lockdown’, an estimated 7 million households had lost their earned income...
A new Office for National Statistics release has compared the Covid-19 death rates in England and also in Wales finds that the mortality rate in the most deprived areas is around twice as high as in the least deprived areas.
Research has just been published which unfortunately shows a growing gap in the quality of health care in England between the poorest and richest areas.
New analysis has found that people living in the most deprived areas of England experience a worse quality of NHS care and poorer health outcomes than people living in the least deprived areas. These include spending longer in A&E and having a worse experience of making a GP appointment.
The research, undertaken by QualityWatch, a joint Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation programme, has looked at 23 measures of healthcare quality to see how these are affected by deprivation. In every single indicator looked at, care is worse for people experiencing the greatest deprivation.
Read more about the first of the two-volume study based on the PSE-UK survey. Find out how poverty affects people from different groups within the UK: young and old; men and women; different ethnic backgrounds; those with disabilities; and others.
The interviews for the 'Poverty in the UK' 1968/69 survey were undertaken by fieldworkers spread across the UK. A number of these fieldworkers have been tracked down and interviewed about their recollections of working on the survey. These video interviews throw light onto how these fieldworkers were recruited and trained, how they conducted the interviews on the ground and the problems they encountered and the impact this experience had on them at the time. Below you will find interviews with Angela Avens, Andrea Cordani and Morag Macdonal and Deidre Forsyth.
Angela AvensAngela Avens was one of the main interviewers and covered the South West of England. Her video interview is in three parts:
This latest PSE report assesses the state of local public and private services and trends since 1999. It finds that while most universal services have high usage, leisure and cultural services have seen falls in usage risking a spiral of decline.