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Opportunity for all: one year on; making a difference; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 250p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the progress of the government's strategies to combat poverty and social exclusion. Covers strategies for children and young people; the unemployed; older people; and communities. Describes various government initiatives and the degree to which they have achieved their targets.
The poor need not always be with us
- Author:
- BRITTAIN Samuel
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 33, Spring 2000, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
In December, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published the second edition of work monitoring annual changes in fifty indicators of poverty and social exclusion. This article considers how useful reviewing these indicators is in helping to improve the lot of those on very low incomes.
Opportunity for all: tackling poverty and social exclusion; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security by Command of Her Majesty, September 1999
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 176p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the levels of poverty and social exclusion in the UK today and goes on to detail the Government's strategy for tackling the problem. Sections on children and young people, people of working age, older people, and communities, follow.
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.
Opportunity for all: making progress; third annual report 2001; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by Command of Her Majesty September 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 272p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Report setting out progress made in tackling child poverty, increasing opportunities for people of working age, as well as ensuring that pensioners share in rising prosperity. Sets out measures specifically designed to help communities that have suffered from disadvantage and deprivation for years.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2000
- Authors:
- RAHMAN Mohibur, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 90p.,diags.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
Third annual report providing independent monitoring of fifty indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Britain today. The indicators are grouped into six categories relating to income, children, young adults, older people and communities.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 1999
- Authors:
- HOWARTH Catherine, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 89p.,tables,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report providing updated figures for fifty indicators that portray the key features of poverty and social exclusion today in Great Britain. Contains statistical data on: poverty and low income; children; young adults; adults; older people; and communities.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion: Labour's inheritance
- Authors:
- HOWARTH Catherine, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 186p.diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report presenting forty six indicators of the level of poverty and social exclusion at the time when the present Government came to power. Draws indicators from regularly updated sources, so it will be possible to monitor annually their progress from this baseline. Includes sections on: poverty and low income; children; young adults; adults; older people; communities; and an appendix on geographic concentrations.