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28/10/2019
UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
This year’s theme for the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty focussed on child and family poverty. A key theme was prioritising access to quality social services.
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08/12/2017
The centrality of poverty
Poverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation of most aspects of social exclusion and a range of social outcomes, concludes the 2nd of the two-volume PSE-UK study.
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11/03/2014
‘Troubled Families’ in a spin
The Department of Communities and Local Government claims that the Troubled Families Programme is ‘on track at the half-way stage’. Ruth Levitas unpicks the figures and argues this is far from the truth.
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03/09/2013
Parents blamed for growing educational inequalities
White boys from poorer homes have been falling further behind at school in recent years, says a new report from the Centre for Social Justice think tank. The report highlights the role played by inadequate parenting associated with family breakdown, poverty and drug addiction.
The report was drawn up by a group of educational experts chaired by Sir Robin Bosher, Director of Primary Education for the Harris Federation of Academies.
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02/09/2013
School-based financial education: will it make a difference?
Julia Kukiewicz asks if school-based education will actually increase financial literacy and how much real help will it offer those struggling on low incomes.
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10/04/2013
Family allowances ‘not key’ to tackling inequality
Family allowances are less effective than policies such as childcare and parental leave in reducing household income inequality, according to a research study of a range of developed countries.
American academics looked at how welfare state policies were related to households' relative incomes for 17, mainly European and north American, countries between 1985 and 2005. They focused on the intersection between household income, family structure and parental education level.
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04/09/2012
Childhood income volatility harms adult outcomes
Being exposed to family income instability as a child leads to lower educational attainment in later life, according to research in America. The study looks at the relationship between income instability and adult outcomes over a period of nearly 40 years, prompted by a rise of one-third in income volatility in the United States since the 1970s.
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21/06/2012
Response to Northern Ireland’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy
The paper welcomes the initiative to set out a child poverty strategy, and its recognition that addressing these issues requires a long-term and wide-ranging strategy as well as a commitment to monitor this strategy with targets and indicators. The paper, however, notes a disjunction between the overall universalist aims stated in the strategy and the targeted approach of the strands set out to implement the strategy. The paper also notes that the narrow focus on tackling worklessness is insufficient.
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07/06/2012
Indicators of Social Participation
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. The paper investigates which common social roles are found in social surveys and which activities are associated with these roles. It looks at ways of capturing participation in common social activities.
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07/06/2012
Indicators of Access to Cultural Resources, Education and Skills for the PSE Survey
This paper discusses indicators relating to Domain 4 (‘Cultural Resources’) and Domain 7 (‘Cultural Participation’) of the revised Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix (BSEM) for use in the current Poverty and Social Exclusion survey. In the BSEM, education is treated as a resource as well as an aspect of cultural participation. Questions in the PSE survey therefore need to cover both the educational resources (human capital) of the adults in the survey, i.e. their educational background, and the educational resources currently received by children.
Category: Methods development
