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14/12/2021
UNICEF 75 Report
UNICEF 75 report, Preventing a lost decade: Urgent action to reverse the devastating impact of COVID-19 on children and young people.
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06/08/2021
The Poverty Alliance - New Webinar Series: Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland
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.
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03/02/2021
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Steering Group on Measuring Poverty and Inequality
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.
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09/12/2020
Destitution in the UK 2020
Our colleagues at Heriot-Watt University have published their latest report on destitution in the UK, which makes grim reading even before the effects of the pandemic...
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03/09/2020
UNICEF Warns of “Looming Children’s Crisis” and the Urgent Need for the UK to Take Action to Improve the Lives of Children
UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 16, gives the UK an overall ranking of 27 among 41 EU and OECD countries on children’s health, academic and social skillsets. According to the data analysis, the UK ranks 29th for mental well-being, 19th for physical health and 26th for skills.
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20/08/2020
Under Siege: Impact of COVID-19 on Girls in Africa launched to mark the World Humanitarian Day, 19th August 2020.
‘Home sweet home’ no longer tenable as new report shows spaces are becoming physically and emotionally suffocating for most African girls.
Quarantines, stay-home measures and movement restrictions related to COVID-19 have brought potential victims and potential perpetrators together under the confines of the home setting, increasing girls’ close and constant exposure to abuse and violence.
Plan International and African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) are calling for urgent interventions to address spiralling rates of violence against girls and women in Africa as COVID-19 intensifies and lockdowns continue.
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04/07/2020
Poverty Measurement: Guide to data disaggregation adopted by UNECE
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has adopted a Guide to Poverty Measurement and data disaggregation which is now formally endorsed by the Conference of European Statisticians (CES).
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01/05/2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a proportionally higher impact on the most deprived areas
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.
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29/03/2020
Impact of Covid-19 on food access
The Food Foundation has just released the results of a YouGov survey on the impact of Covid-19 on food access. (See here ) They found that;
“More than 1.5 million adults in Britain say they cannot obtain enough food, 53% of NHS workers are worried about getting food, and half of parents with children eligible for Free School Meals have not received any substitute meals to keep their children fed, despite government assurances that they would provide food vouchers or parcels. This means that 830,000 children could be going without daily sustenance on which they usually rely.”
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24/01/2020
Health Inequalities in England
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.
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