Stigma

  • 07/03/2016

    Urban and rural poverty in Scotland

    Analysis of the PSE-UK survey results finds significant poverty in every kind of location in Scotland with poverty highest in large urban areas and lowest in remote towns though there is strong evidence that access to services is worse in more rural or remote locations.
    Subjects: Area deprivation, Debt, Deprivation, Income poverty, Low pay, Necessities, Poverty measurement, Scotland, Social exclusion, Social networks, Stigma, Transport
    Category: PSE Report
  • 12/06/2013

    Poverty Alliance: challenging stigma

    The PSE linked up with Poverty Alliance Scotland to highlight key findings from their ‘EPIC’ project. This project brings together people directly affected by poverty with policy and decision-makers to achieve change. A key issue experienced by people on low-income is the stigma of poverty.

    Subjects: Low-income households, Scotland, Shame, Stigma
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  • 03/04/2013

    Osborne sparks benefits row over Philpott deaths

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has said it is 'right to question' why the taxpayer was 'subsidising lifestyles' like that of Michael Philpott, the man convicted of manslaughter over the death of six of his children in a fire at his Derby home.

    Osborne was immediately criticised for appearing to endorse tabloid coverage linking the crime to Philpott's alleged benefits income of £60,000 a year – the combination making Philpott, according to the Daily Mail, a 'vile product of Welfare UK'.

    Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Osborne, said: 'The Philpott case is an individual tragedy. Children have died in that case. I think that is where we should let that case lie. I would not want to connect that to the much wider need to reform our welfare system'.

    Subjects: Benefits, Stigma
    Category: Reports
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