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.
Category: Neighbourhoods & Deprivation
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
Coping with the cuts? Local government and poorer communities
It was clear from the moment the Coalition Government announced its austerity programme in 2010 that local government services would take a disproportionate reduction in resources, unprecedented in recent times.
“Gulf in council spending may divide society”
“Cuts may force councils to stop funding arts and leisure services by 2015” and “Britain’s poorest and most deprived areas hit hardest as society becomes unacceptably more divided”.
Research conversation: What do we mean by UK poverty?
What do we mean by poverty? How can poverty exist in a developed society such as the United Kingdom? Is UK poverty as “real” as poverty in Africa? Kirsten Besemer and Peter Matthews discuss these questions and why they should concern planners, as part of a series of Research Conversations.
Demolish Morningside! Dr Peter Matthews presents Fringe Show
Dr Peter Matthews starred in a show on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – in which he spoke about policies to create mixed communities – and why these never seem to involve relocating the wealthy. In his blog, he reflects on his experience.
Protection ‘for’ or protection ‘from’? Children in town planning
“Children are the future” and “Let’s do it for the kids”. These are the kind of phrases you often hear when talking of the legacy we wish to leave our planet, but what if children are just as much citizens of the present as they are the future?
Report: Better measures of local incomes and poverty in Scotland
The Income Modelling Project was carried out by Heriot Watt University with the aim of developing improved measures of local incomes and poverty in Scotland at small area level. Professor Glen Bramley and David Watkins have now published a report on their findings.
Scottish impoverishment reported in media
Although Scotland does slightly better than the UK average, poverty in Scotland is the worst it has been in 30 years.
Press Release: New figures on the impoverishment of the UK
Key findings of the Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) Project, published today in its first report ‘The Impoverishment of the UK’.