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Latest Newsletter - December 2008
* Recession threatens faltering gains on poverty as ten-year poverty assessment published
The tenth anniversary edition of the independent, annual Monitoring poverty and social exclusion report presents a comprehensive analysis of trends across the past decade.
Produced for the JRF by the New Policy Institute (NPI), it looks at the government's ten year record across a range of subjects. What stands out is that, after progress in the first half of that decade, improvement in many key areas has slowed down or remained unchanged. Up to about 2002 the picture was strongly positive with over half (30) of the 56 indicators showing an improvement and only a few worsening. Since then, by contrast, only 14 indicators improved while 15 worsened (leaving 27 steady). This is a potentially fragile position to be in when entering a recession and the report is a timely reminder of the need to consider the possible impact on already vulnerable people.
Built around a set of indicators constructed using the latest official government data, the report assesses the record across a wide range of subjects including unemployment, education, health and crime. This provides a picture of the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK just before the onset of the recent economic downturn. Assessing key data in these areas is particularly important this year as we enter a recession which is likely to have a major impact on indicators such as repossessions and unemployment.
- Read the report and findings by Guy Palmer, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway.
Other news and latest research
- Social Evils: Why do people think inequality is worse than poverty? (10 December)
- Social Evils: Five types of inequality (10 December)
- Social Evils: Opportunity and Aspiration: two sides of the same coin? (10 December)
- Community ownership and management of assets (9 December)
- Religion, beliefs and parenting practices (28 November)
- Care and support: a community responsibility? (27 November)
- Rethinking social care and support: What can England learn from other countries? (27 November)
- Time and Poverty (26 November)
- Developing the use of 'MDS-RAI' reports for UK care homes (21 November)
- Lessons from contracting out welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands (20 November)
Forthcoming publications (December)
- Findings from the Holme Wood Development Project 2007/08 (w/b 15th December)
- Evaluating Cross-Community Work in Holme Wood (w/b 15th December)
- Evaluating West Bowling Youth Initiative (w/b 15th December)
Please note: titles are provisional, and publication dates subject to change.
