Press release archive

December

Government ‘needs to take further action before poverty targets can be met’

December 12, 2002

Success for York care workers in National Training Awards

December 11, 2002

Poverty levels remain high in Scotland despite falling unemployment

December 5, 2002

Community benefit clauses in public funding and procurement contracts ‘can be legal’

December 4, 2002
November

Better educated, more depressed: how young people’s lives have changed in a generation

November 27, 2002

National survey reveals widespread housing problems among families of disabled children

November 19, 2002

Councillors warn that spread of partnership policies risks undermining local democracy

November 15, 2002
October

Divorced parents ‘make conflict worse by going to court over child contact’

October 30, 2002

Confusion over governance holds back community and small voluntary groups

October 23, 2002

Planning agreements ‘do little to increase the number of affordable homes’

October 17, 2002

Growing pressure on over-50s to juggle work with family care

October 2, 2002
September

Survey finds most dual-earner families include a parent working long or atypical hours

September 25, 2002

Workplace survey finds carers unaware of employers’ ‘family-friendly’ work policies

September 25, 2002

Partnership Agreement signed for new York community

September 23, 2002

Lack of support adds to hardship and isolation for disabled refugees and asylum seekers

September 17, 2002
July

Employees who juggle work with care for an older adult ‘are reluctant to seek help’

July 31, 2002

Support services for Asian disabled people ‘take insufficient account of cultural needs’

July 10, 2002

What do the poverty numbers really show?

July 1, 2002
June

Care homes for older people ‘underfunded by over £1 billion a year’

June 19, 2002
May

Family-friendly employment policies ‘matched by business success’

May 27, 2002

Fewer unemployed everywhere, but inequality widens between areas

May 22, 2002

Police experiment with restorative cautioning ‘helps to prevent youth crime’

May 10, 2002

Welsh councils retain their influence in partnership with devolved Assembly

May 7, 2002

JRF launches review of action to prevent abuse of children living away from home

May 1, 2002

JRF appoints new Director of Research

May 1, 2002
April

Risks of old-age poverty for those retiring early are ‘strongly linked to occupation’

April 29, 2002

Housing Benefit incentives to shop around for accommodation ‘would be fairer’

April 23, 2002

Social housing tenants risk being excluded from homeworking opportunities

April 17, 2002

National youth survey spotlights drug and alcohol misuse, crime and contributing risks

April 8, 2002
March

Shortage of homes over next 20 years threatens deepening housing crisis

March 19, 2002

Study reveals widespread inconsistencies in policing of cannabis on the streets

March 13, 2002

Duke of Edinburgh to open JRF Centenary Housing Conference in London

March 5, 2002
February

Private sector interest in family-friendly employment ‘dictated by need to retain staff’

February 13, 2002

Disaffected youth in multi-cultural areas ‘are missed or ignored by support services’

February 6, 2002
January

Groundwork study highlights importance of a long-term commitment to deprived communities

January 21, 2002

Research reveals the hidden problems of girls excluded from school

January 9, 2002

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