Families

08/05/2019

UK Food Security

The UK Government recently agreed to measure food insecurity in the annual Family Resources Survey (FRS) – which is used to produce UK poverty statistics. Read more...

Subjects: Child poverty, Families, Food poverty, Inequality
Category: News stories
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.

Subjects: Benefits, Child benefit, Child poverty, Crime, Debt, Deprivation, Education, Employment, Families, Financial exclusion, Government cuts, Government policy, Health, Heating, Homeless, Housing, In-work poverty, Job security, Living standards, Local services, Low pay, Mental health, Necessities, Part-time work, Poverty measurement, Public services, Social exclusion, Unemployment
Category: Articles
06/12/2016

Research officers: interviews

There were four research officers who formed, along with Peter Townsend and Brian Abel-Smith, the core of the initial research team: Hilary Land (at the LSE), Denis Marsden, John Veit-Wilson and Adrian Sinfield (at the University of Essex). These research officers conducted the pilot studies and were involved in the planning of the main survey. Below you will find interviews with Hilary Land, John Veit-Wilson and Adrian Sinfield. Dennis Marsden died in 2009 after a long academic career, in the course of which he undertook a number of major and pioneering qualitative studies on education and the working-class, lone mothers, unemployment, and on couples and intimacy.

Subjects: Families, Gender, Inequality, Lone parents, Low-income households, Poverty measurement
Category: Townsend document
10/02/2016

Redefining poverty will not help poor children

The government wants to redefine poverty to be a measure of workless homes and educational attainment. But most children in poverty live in households where at least one adults works. Gill Main questions how this proposal helps tackle child poverty.

Subjects: Child poverty, Deprivation, Families, Government policy, In-work poverty, Income poverty, Intra-household poverty
Category: Articles
05/02/2016

Published output

The PSE team have published the results of the Northern Ireland PSE survey research, the findings of the PSE UK qualitative research in Northern Ireland and the methodolgy and impact of the PSE community collaboration project in the following publications and journal papers.
Books 'Child Poverty in Northern Ireland: Results from the Poverty and Social Exclusion Study' by Mike Tomlinson, Paddy Hillyard and Grace Kelly
In 'Beneath the Surface: Child Poverty in Northern Ireland', (pp. 11-34, Chapter 2) Belfast: Child Poverty Alliance (2014)

Summary

Subjects: Deprivation, Employment, Families, Northern Ireland, Poverty measurement
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01/02/2016

Books

OUT NOW - the two-volume study based on the findings of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK research. Volume 1 examines the extent of poverty and volume 2 the different dimensions of disadvantage. Published by Policy Press on November 29, 2017.

Subjects: Deprivation, Families, Government policy, Health, Housing, Income distribution, Labour party, Liberal Democrats, Living standards, Low pay, Low-income households, Parenting, Pensions, Poverty measurement, Unemployment, Universalism, Unpaid labour, Wealth
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29/01/2016

Journal papers

Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys highlight changes in the conditions of survey production over this 45 year period in the latest output from the PSE research.

Subjects: Benefits, Child poverty, Deprivation, Disability, Discrimination, Early intervention, Employment, Families, Gender, Housing, Low pay, Necessities, Northern Ireland, Older people, Parenting, Pensions, Shame, Social networks, The troubles
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07/11/2014

Life on a low income in austere times

The final report from the PSE qualitative research on the reality of life on low income records how people's perpetual struggles to make meagre budgets stretch eventually this takes its toll on their lives.

Subjects: Families, Low pay, Shame, Social exclusion, Welfare system
Category: PSE Report
10/08/2014

The necessities of life for children

This paper provides an analysis of questions on attitudes to necessities for the child items and activities in the 2012 PSE Attitudes to Necessities survey. For the purposes of this research, adults were asked whether children’s items were necessities or otherwise – the findings therefore represent what adults think children need. The paper, first, presents the overall proportions of the population viewing items as necessities, and where possible compares this to the proportion of the population viewing these items and activities as necessities in previous surveys. Following this, variations between different sub-groups of the population are explored. Another working paper (forthcoming) will provide evidence of the number and characteristics of children lacking these necessities.

Subjects: Child poverty, Families, Necessities, Poverty measurement, Working papers
Category: Result analysis
13/05/2014

Findings

CiA Feeling the strain_1

I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I might fall off.

Subjects: Deprivation, Families, Food poverty, In-work poverty, Living standards, Low-income households, Northern Ireland
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