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Links and other resources
External research
Some groups of children suffer particularly from poverty, for example:
- children in acute housing need;
- children with disabled parents;
- children of asylum seekers.
Child Poverty Action Group's At Greatest Risk: the children most likely to be poor is a key document. Read its conclusion (PDF, 66KB).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies publishes annual reports on poverty and inequality.
JRF research
- Monitoring poverty and social exclusion (annual poverty and social exclusion statistics)
- Lifetime Opportunity and Incentives Simulation (LOIS): this project simulates the effects of current tax and benefit policy over the lifetime on different types of families with children, including a lone parent and a couple family.
- Child Poverty in Large Families
- Children's perspectives on poverty, inequality and social exclusion
Government
John Hutton, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gave the following response at the launch of our concluding report.
- John Hutton's speech, Thursday 6th July 2006 (Word, 46KB)
Other government links:
- DWP: Households Below Average Income (HBAI)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP): Opportunity for all website
- Scottish Executive: Closing the Opportunity Gap (CtOG)
- Welsh Assembly: Child Poverty
- Northern Ireland Executive: New Targeting Social Need
- Association of London Government (ALG): London Commission for Child Poverty
- DWP: National Action Plan on Social Inclusion
- HM Treasury: Child Poverty Review
Other organisations
(The following are all represented on the JRF's advisory group for this project.)
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Children's Society
- Department for Work and Pensions
- End Child Poverty Coalition
- End Child Poverty Network Cymru
- Federation of Small Businesses
- Local Government Association
- London Child Poverty Commission
- New Policy Institute (www.poverty.org.uk)
- Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network
- Poverty Alliance
- Save the Children
- Trade Union Congress
