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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2006
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, MACINNES Tom, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This is the 9th in a series of annual reports aiming to provide an independent assessment of progress in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion. It covers issues from work and education to health and housing. The analysis is built around a set of 50 indicators organised into 6 chapters. Four of the chapters are focused on particular age groups, namely children, young adults aged under 25, adults aged 25 to retirement, and adults above retirement. In addition, there is a chapter looking at low income and one looking at community issues. Among the findings are that half of all children still in poverty are living in families doing paid work. It concludes that unless the scale of in-work poverty can be reduced, future substantial reductions in child poverty are very unlikely. The big fall in poverty among pensioners has been a major success of the anti-poverty strategy. By contrast, the failure to reduce poverty among working-age adults has been a major weakness. Progress in the numbers reaching ‘headline’ standards at age 11 and 16 has been made but this diverts attention from the quarter of 19-year-olds who fail to reach a minimum educational standard.
The impact of devolution: indicators of poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- PALMER Guy
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report on indicators of poverty and social exclusion is from a series on the impact of devolved government in the United Kingdom. This ‘fact pack’ details statistical indicators of low income, lack of work, low pay, health and education and compares them over three years and across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and nine English regions, which are defined in the introduction. An executive summary gives graphs of trends over time and comparisons across the 12 regions of the UK. The objective of providing factual material which others can use is realised in five sections of text and figures for the 22 indicators identified for poverty and social exclusion (10, 4, 4, 2 and 2 indicators for low income, lack of work, low pay, health and education respectively). The author cautions that data limitations (e.g. differing definitions, collection methods) on some topics, such as crime, neighbourhoods and community meant they were non-comparable and are largely absent from this report. The author demonstrates that this breakdown is inversely correlated to the extent to which the subjects are devolved. Other reports, in the series, detail area based regeneration, long-term care provision employment and employability and housing and homelessness.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2008
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, MACINNES Tom, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2008
- Authors:
- KENWAY Peter, MACINNES Tom, PALMER Guy
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The New Policy Institute has produced its 2008 edition of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland, providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups. Based on the latest available data, its starting point is that, while child and pensioner poverty in Scotland has fallen over the last decade, poverty among working-age adults has remained the same. This Findings is an update of the Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland reports published in 2002, 2004 and 2006.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, MACINNES Tom, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 136p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute. Providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups, this report examines the progress being made on reducing poverty and social exclusion, in light of the Government's ambitious target to halve child poverty by 2010.
Poverty among ethnic groups: how and why does it differ?
- Authors:
- KENWAY Peter, PALMER Guy
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The income poverty rate varies substantially between ethnic groups: Bangladeshis (65%), Pakistanis (55%) and black Africans (45%) have the highest rates while black Caribbeans (30%), Indians (25%), white Other (25%) and white British (20%) have the lowest rates. For all ethnic groups, the rate at which income poverty has fallen over the last decade appears to be roughly similar. The differences are particularly great for families where at least one adult is in paid work.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2006
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, MACINNES Tom, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This is 2006 edition in a series of reports which began in 2002 with the aim of providing an independent assessment of the progress being made in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion in Scotland. Poverty among children, poverty among adults, inequalities in income and pay, educational outcomes at the bottom, health inequalities, and quality of life and social cohesion are highlighted. Key points, graphs and tables are presented.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2005
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, CARR Jane, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 117p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The numbers living in income poverty continue to fall, but only among families with children and pensioners. Almost a third of working-age disabled adults live in income poverty. This is higher than a decade ago, now double the rate for working-age non-disabled adults and higher than the rates for either pensioners or children. For any given level of qualification, disabled people are both much more likely to lack work or be in low-paid work. Half of all children living in income poverty live in households where someone is in paid work, most of them in two-adult rather than one-adult families. 5 million employees aged 22 and over are low paid. Half of part-time workers currently earn less than £6.50 an hour, three-quarters of them women. The proportion of children living in workless households in the UK is the highest in Europe. This is mainly due to the high number of workless lone-parent households and, as a result, half of all children living with one parent are in income poverty. Both lack of work and low pay are strongly related to educational qualifications. Those 19-year-olds who have not achieved five 'good' GCSEs or NVQ2 are very unlikely to gain more qualifications in later years. Many deep, persistent health inequalities remain. For example: infant deaths are one-and-a-half times as likely among those from manual than non-manual backgrounds; deaths under 65 from heart disease and lung cancer are twice as likely. The incidence of burglary and violence with injury is half that of 1995. Unemployed people are three times more likely than average to be victims of violent crime. Lone parents are more than twice as likely as average to be burgled. The number of people accepted as homeless has risen by a fifth since 1999, to stand at around 200,000 households each year. Most of this rise has been among households without dependent children, these households now forming two-thirds of the total.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2004
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, CARR Jane, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 111p.
- Place of publication:
- York
While the percentage of both children and pensioners in low-income households is falling, the percentage for working-age adults without dependent children is rising. The number of working-age people who want paid work is more than twice the number who are officially (ILO) unemployed. Four-fifths of long-term claimants of out-of-work benefits are sick or disabled. Two-fifths of those aged 25 or over and earning less than £6.50 per hour work in the distribution, hotel and restaurant sectors. A further quarter are directly employed by the public sector. Relatively few low-paid jobs are in sectors which face direct competition from low wage producers abroad. Half of all employees aged 25 to 50 lacking Higher grade or above are low paid. A quarter of all 19-year-olds lack such qualifications. More than half of employees on below-average incomes are not contributing to a non-state pension. While the rates of premature death have fallen over the last decade, they are still much higher than in any other part of Great Britain. 29 of the 32 local authorities have higher premature death rates than the average for England and Wales. Geographic patterns for low income and lack of work are similar, with parts of West Central Scotland (Glasgow City, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire) along with Dundee having the highest incidence. The geographic pattern of low pay is very different, with Glasgow and Edinburgh having the lowest concentrations and the Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway having the highest.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2002
- Authors:
- PALMER Guy, RAHMAN Mohibur, KENWAY Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 110p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report provides updated statistics for 50 indicators which between them portray the key features of poverty and social exclusion today in Great Britain. Whilst income is the focus of many of the indicators, they also cover a wide range of other subjects including health, education, work, and engagement in community activities. The indicators are grouped into six chapters, with the four central chapters dividing the population by age (children, young adults, adults and older people), with an initial chapter on income and a final chapter on communities.