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Changing weights and measures: disability and child poverty
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 123, Winter 2006, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
There has been a fall in child poverty from its peak of one in three children in 1998/99. The author looks at how children of disabled parents and disabled children themselves have fared relative to children not affected by disability.
Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system
- Author:
- PRESTON Gabrielle
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with 20 families who have a disabled child or children, investigates their experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA makes a significant difference, not just for the disabled child but for the whole family. However, the fact that DLA is repeatedly downrated or withdrawn generates considerable fluctuations in income and high levels of stress and ill health. The report outlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabled children is to be reduced.
Paying the price: carers, poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- HOWARD Marilyn
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 141p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are approximately six million people in the UK who provide care and support for someone, usually a relative or partner, who, because of age, health or disability, are unable to cope alone. Although this form of unpaid care work saves the taxpayer an estimated £34 billion a year in health and social services, the carers themselves are often left in poverty, excluded from any active social life and often without paid employment. This publication draws on recent research that looks at the way caring impacts on the lives of different types of carers. Each different group is examined a case study is presented to illustrate the different obstacles faced. The groups covered include: young carers; parent carers; working-age carers (and work), and; carers over pension age.
No space to grieve
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 35, Summer 2001, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
How would bereaved parents cope if - on top of their grief at losing their child they had to manage a sudden drop in income? Looks at research which reveals the additional burden many parents of disabled children have to face.
Children, poverty and disability
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 109, Summer 2001, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
The Government has made an ambitious commitment to eradicating child poverty within a target of 20 years and has introduced a range of policy initiatives and increases in benefits. Asks whether these improvements will reach disabled children or children in families where a parent is long term sick or disabled, and looks at what the Government is doing to address their needs.
Social security
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 11, April 2001, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Families who have a disabled child often fall into poverty and become socially excluded. Reports on a study in Hertfordshire which reveals that the problems of these families are exacerbated by the fact that they are not claiming the benefits they are entitled to.
The employment tax credit: and issues for the future of in-work support
- Authors:
- BENNETT Fran, HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- York
From 2003, the Government plans to introduce the Employment Tax Credit, to extend help to a wider range of individuals and couples with earnings from work who are nonetheless living on low incomes. What place is there for such in-work supplements in tackling poverty and promoting opportunity? An analysis of evidence suggests the need to balance the decision to extend income top-ups with other policies in order to achieve these aims.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit: summary
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit
- Author:
- WHEATLEY John
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
The NCH factfile: children in Britain 1992
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME
- Publisher:
- National Children's Home
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 96p.,tables,illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains statistical and other information on: population characteristics; family costs; income and poverty; children, housing and homelessness; children and disability; education and health; abuse; addiction; crime; children in care; and parenting and working.