The percentage of households falling below society’s minimum standard of living has increased from 14% to 33% over the last 30 years, despite the size of the economy doubling. This is one of the stark findings from the largest study of poverty and deprivation ever conducted in the UK.
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Tackling Poverty in the UK: the best evidence and the right perspective
Earlier this year, I took part in an event focusing on how lasting change for people and places in poverty can be achieved. Here is my answer – By Beth Watts.
Jenny Wood wins Public Engagement Prize
Jenny Wood wins 2014 Principal’s Public Engagement Prize on the basis of her many public performances.
‘Designing out’: a callous or compassionate response to rough sleeping?
The installation of ‘spikes’ to deter rough sleepers from bedding down in a doorway in London has prompted an outcry in social media. Dr Sarah Johnsen considers the ethicality of ‘designing out’ rough sleepers.
Homelessness in Northern Ireland
This report is part of the UK homelessness monitors series and focuses on homelessness in Northern Ireland. It provides a ‘baseline’ account of the situation in 2013, spanning issues of rough sleeping, temporary accommodation, statutory homelessness and ‘hidden’ homelessness.
Some thoughts on the property tax reform stand-off
Chris Leishman reflects on the curious cross-roads of events and economic circumstances which prompted the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s re-evaluation of council tax reforms.
Urban Refugees and the Challenge of the Slums
Assessing the vulnerability of refugee groups is a major obstacle for humanitarian action in urban areas. Aisling O’Loghlen investigates vulnerability of refugees in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Evidence on the Third National Planning Framework for Scotland
Professor Glen Bramley gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament, Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee. He provided a written note of evidence which is reproduced here.
Reflections on the growth of food aid in today’s Scotland
Dr. Nicola Livingstone reports on the diverse nature of food aid in Scotland. The growth of food inequalities is a worrying development in UK society and a reflection on the government’s welfare reforms and our austerity economy…
The Welfare Wall
To date assessments of the current UK welfare reforms have generally been ‘static’ and examine the consequences of each reform in isolation. Impacts are then often overstated and fail to analyse how reforms will inter-act with one another.