Poverty
Examining the root causes of poverty, inequality and disadvantage and identifying solutions.
Our key objectives for 2009-2011 are:
- to monitor child poverty and propose policy solutions to help end it;
- to provide authoritative annual statements on poverty and social exclusion;
- to explore how poverty affects people and families in different ways at different times;
- to implement an anti-poverty strategy within JRHT;
- to explore the nature of contemporary slavery in order to develop practical solutions and influence policy;
- to collect and use evidence that will help to stop or reverse negative drinking cultures and patterns in the UK.
Emerging ideas are:
- to understand the values, costs and benefits of interventions that enable people to move out of poverty;
- to understand and respond to underlying reasons for variations in low incomes among different ethnic groups.