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UK poverty: causes, costs and solutions
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 369
- Place of publication:
- York
A comprehensive report on UK poverty, examining causes, costs and solutions. To be in poverty is to have resources that are well below minimum needs, as a result of a lack of resources – most obviously, income – but also of steep prices for minimum needs. Low resources and high costs cause poverty, separately or together. It is estimated that 13.5 million people live in poverty in the UK. This report explains what poverty is and what causes it, highlights trends and projections in UK poverty, and makes recommendations for tackling: the high costs driving poverty, including housing; poverty in childhood; poverty in working age; poverty in later life; poverty for people with complex needs. The report argues that the problem of poverty can be solved by strengthening family life, ensuring all citizens have the skills they need to operate, fixing flaws in the benefits system, taking practical action to contain rising costs, and moving to more progressive employment and business practices. Solving poverty relies on economic growth, but the proceeds need to be distributed more fairly, and the underlying causes, such as low pay, low skills and high costs, need to be reduced. Where possible, the report has costed the policy recommendations and shown where there could be savings in the long term. The report calls on national and local governments, businesses, employers, providers of essential goods and services, housing providers, public service providers, investors and philanthropists, community, faith and voluntary sector groups and citizens to work together, to reduce the risk of people falling into poverty, mitigate their experiences when they are in poverty and make it easier for them to escape from it. (Edited publisher abstract)
Together in the 2020s: twenty ideas for creating a Britain for all ages by 2030
- Author:
- UNITED FOR ALL AGES
- Publisher:
- United for All Ages
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- Happisburgh
This report presents 20 innovative ideas to bring older and younger people together and create a stronger society. The ideas cover three areas of public life: practical intergenerational projects, social and economic policies, and culture, media and sport. The report also highlights how intergenerational projects can change attitudes, improve older people’s health and care, tackle loneliness and increase trust and understanding between generations. The ideas include enabling more care homes to become community hubs; extending schools’ opening hours to provide community spaces for intergenerational activities; scaling up homesharing schemes for older and younger people; and the creation of a government department to join up and support intergenerational action. The recommendations draw on contributions from 25 national and local organisations. (Edited publisher abstract)
UK poverty 2018
- Authors:
- BARNARD Helen, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- York
Annual report examining the nature and scale of UK poverty and how UK poverty rates have changed over the last few years, as well as over the longer term. The research provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty trends and figures and the impact of poverty, focusing particularly on poverty among children, working-age adults, and pensioners. It provides an overview of how poverty is linked to disability and ethnicity and also examines the ways that housing market changes have affected low-income families and pensioners. It also considers how poverty restricts people's day-to-day lives and prospects, such as physical and mental health, healthy life and expectancy, and the links between destitution and debt, health and wellbeing. Key findings from the research show that child poverty has been rising since 2011/12 and that there are now 4.1 million children are living in poverty. In addition, four million workers are living in poverty, with increasing numbers of working parents living in poverty. The report highlights the importance of taking action to halt the rise in poverty among workers and their families, as well as among children in workless families. It also identifies strategies which have been shown to reduce poverty, such as improving access to better-paid work, enabling more families to live in low-cost rented homes and strengthening support through the social security system. (Edited publisher abstract)
UK poverty 2017: a comprehensive analysis of poverty trends and figures
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 113
- Place of publication:
- York
This report assesses the progress the UK is making in reducing poverty rates and tackling the underlying drivers of poverty, examining how UK poverty has changed over the last 20 years, as well as more recent developments. Nearly a quarter (24%) of the UK’s population lived in poverty 20 years ago. By 2004, this had fallen to one in five (20%) of the population. By 2015/16, the proportion had risen slightly to 22%. However, the overall trend masks large variations in the fortunes of different groups. Over the last 20 years the UK succeeded in reducing poverty significantly among those groups who had traditionally been at most risk – pensioners and some types of families with children. Very little progress was made in reducing poverty among working-age households without children. In more recent years, poverty rates have started to rise again among both pensioners and families with children. The report suggests that solving poverty in the UK will require urgent action in five areas: reform of Universal Credit so people keep more of what they earn and a lifting of the working-age benefits freeze so incomes keep up with prices; reduce the cost of living, particularly housing, for those on low incomes; improve education and skills, especially among children from low-income backgrounds and adults in low-paid work; work with employers and business to create more and better jobs where they are needed, and to offer more opportunities and better pay to people who currently struggle to enter and gain from work – particularly disabled people, those caring for adults or children, and part-time workers; work with communities and service providers to improve health, family relationships and social support to reduce the damage done by poverty and improve prospects. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing, health and wellbeing in your local area
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides an overview of housing provision in relation to health and wellbeing within local areas in England. It is designed to supplement the LGA’s ‘Health and wellbeing in England: a focus on housing’ report that explores housing and health in local authority, by providing an overview of the population and factors affecting housing conditions, and potentially health and wellbeing, at ward level. To focus on areas of most concern, charts have been limited to show 50 wards, highlighting those with the most challenging circumstances, relative to other wards in the area, at the top of the chart. The maps show the distribution of various metrics at ward level. For each area, the report covers: living arrangements, population characteristics, health and wellbeing of the general population, and health and wellbeing among older people and children. (Edited publisher abstract)
The condition of Britain: interim report
- Editor:
- LAWTON Kayte
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 96
- Place of publication:
- London
The Institute for Public Policy Research’s Condition of Britain programme considers how politics, institutions and policies need to change to respond after the 2007 financial crash. This report sets out the findings from the first stage of IPPR's work on this theme. It brings together five previously published briefing papers on: raising a family; growing up and becoming an adult; living in a good home and neighbourhood; finding a decent job and achieving financial security; and getting older and staying connected. Among the key findings are that: family life is under growing strain; young people’s prospects are increasingly uncertain; some neighbourhoods remain blighted by crime; a minority of people remain excluded from society; many people have lost faith in the benefit system; and more and more older people are facing loneliness and isolation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing issues and realities facing grandparent caregivers who are renters
- Authors:
- FULLER-THOMSON Esme, MINKLER Meredith
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(1), February 2003, pp.92-98.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study determined the prevalence of grandparents raising grandchildren who are living in rental housing and explored the sociodemographic characteristics and challenges faced by such renters. Grandparent caregivers who are renters represent a particularly vulnerable population.
Household budgets and living standards
- Editor:
- BRADSHAW Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 35p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report gives estimates of the cost of living at a "modest-but-adequate" and at a "low-cost" level in Britain in 1993. It includes estimates of how much families would need to spend on a number of main commodities to reach a particular living standard, income required for each family type, estimates of the cost of a child, comparison between the low-cost budget and the benefit rates paid by income support.
Living with mental handicap: transitions in the lives of people with mental handicap
- Authors:
- HOROBIN Gordon, MAY David
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 165p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews recent research and understanding of life-stages for the mentally handicapped - home-hospital-community, childhood-old age - and implications for future policy and practice.
General household survey: results for 2003
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 213p.,tables
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
The General Household Survey (GHS) is an inter-departmental multi-purpose continuous survey carried out by the ONS collecting information on a range of topics from people living in private households in Great Britain.