This report looks in detail at food insecurity among benefit claimants using YouGov surveys of the...
Deprivation
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02/10/2013
100 questions about poverty
Progress in reducing or preventing poverty in the UK could be helped by the answers to 100 important research questions, according to a new report. The questions have been identified by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge, based on an exercise involving 45 participants from government, non-governmental organisations, academia and research. They cover a range of themes, and indicate areas of particular research interest.
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27/06/2013
A review of the qualitative evidence relating to the experience of poverty and exclusion
This working paper provides a review of the qualitative evidence base relating to the experience of poverty and social exclusion in the UK for which to date few systematic reviews exist. Its principal objective is to identify gaps in the current evidence base in order to inform the design and conduct of the Phase II Qualitative Research of the PSE 2011, ‘Understanding Experiences of Low Income During Recession’. It is also intended that the review will act as a resource for further aspects of PSE UK research.
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11/06/2013
Material deprivation in Europe linked to inequality
Why do European countries differ from one another much more on measures of material deprivation than on measures of income poverty? The reasons for this mismatch have been explored by researchers working on an EU-funded project.
Material deprivation plays a key role in defining the poverty and social exclusion goal of the Europe 2020 strategy, which is to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million.
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17/05/2013
Neighbourhood impact on support for redistribution
The kind of neighbourhood where people live has an important impact on their support for policies to tackle inequality, according to a new piece of academic research. The Glasgow University researchers were concerned to find out whether rising levels of spatial segregation might in turn erode support for the redistributive policies of the welfare state.
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30/04/2013
Impact of the recession on child poverty and deprivation in the UK
Jonathan Bradshaw and Gill Main provide an update, 31 January 2014, on their analysis of available data on child poverty. This article discusses trends in child poverty in the UK and urges us all to 'watch this space'.
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22/04/2013
Multi-dimensional deprivation in Ireland
Over 29 per cent of children aged nine in Ireland suffer from multi-dimensional deprivation, according to a new analysis from University College Dublin. 20 per cent are deprived on grounds of low income. Rates of deprivation on other dimensions range from 10 per cent (delinquent behaviour) to 25.2 per cent (overweight or obese).
The researchers made use of the nine-year-old wave of the Growing Up in Ireland study to analyse multi-dimensional deprivation. Their approach involves a 'censoring' of data such that deprivations count only for those above the specified multi-dimensional threshold. This leads, they say, to a stronger set of inter-relationships between deprivation dimensions than that found under alternative approaches.
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28/03/2013
PSE report reveals impoverished nation
A stark picture of the levels and extent of deprivation in the UK today is revealed in the Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) first report ‘The Impoverishment of the UK’. The research finds that for a significant proportion of the population their living standards fall below minimum levels and for some, living conditions and opportunities have been going backwards.
Among the key findings are:Over 30 million people (almost half the population) are suffering some degree of financial insecurity.
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22/03/2013
'The Impoverishment of the UK' PSE UK first results: Living Standards
In this section you will find reports outlining our approach to the PSE UK 2012 research project.
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12/09/2012
Young People and the Legacies of Conflict, Mike Tomlinson
This paper, presented to the ASITIS Children of Conflict Conference on 26 March 2012, addresses the question of what has the Northern Ireland conflict got to do with the challenges we face in addressing the needs, rights and opportunities of our young people today, especially those who are out of work and detached from education and training.
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11/09/2012
Poor Britain
In Poor Britain (1985) Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley set out the ‘consensual’ approach to poverty pioneered in the 1983 Breadline Britain survey. They introduce the concept of ‘socially perceived necessities’ and distinguish between those who lack necessities from choice and those who can’t afford them. They define poverty as ‘an enforced lack of socially perceived necessities’. Poor Britain is now out of print but you can download this influential book by clicking on the links below. We have provided both the full book, 324 pages, as one PDF, and each chapter and appendices as separate PDFs for download.
Copyright remains with J.H. Mack and S. Lansley. Please cite ‘J. Mack and S. Lansley (1985) Poor Britain, London, George Allen & Unwin’ if quoting from this book.
Poor Britain: whole book
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