Troubled families schemes ‘underperforming’
Publication date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013Two government programmes aimed at helping families with multiple problems will miss their targets unless improvements are made, according to a report from...
View ArticlePeople have ‘lost faith’ in benefits system
Publication date: Thursday, December 12, 2013Many people in Britain have lost faith in the benefit system, according to a new think-tank report charting the major pressures facing families today. The...
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‘Troubled Families’ in a spin
Publication date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014The Department of Communities and Local Government claims that the Troubled Families Programme is ‘on track at the half-way stage’. Ruth Levitas unpicks the...
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Findings
Publication date: Wednesday, June 11, 2014Author/s: Communities in Action and PSE team membersCiA Feeling the strain_1 Attachments: AttachmentSizeWP Methods No.25 -Community__ Engagement for...
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The necessities of life for children
Publication date: Sunday, August 10, 2014Author/s: Gill Main and Jonathan BradshawThis paper provides an analysis of questions on attitudes to necessities for the child items and activities in the 2012...
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Life on a low income in austere times
Publication date: Friday, November 7, 2014Author/s: Simon Pemberton, Eileen Sutton, Eldin Fahmy and Karen BellThe final report from the PSE qualitative research on the reality of life on low income...
View ArticleJournal papers
Publication date: Friday, January 29, 2016Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in...
View ArticleBooks
Publication date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017OUT NOW - the two-volume study based on the findings of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK research. Volume 1 examines the extent of poverty and...
View ArticlePublished output
Publication date: Friday, February 5, 2016The PSE team have published the results of the Northern Ireland PSE survey research, the findings of the PSE UK qualitative research in Northern Ireland and...
View ArticleRedefining poverty will not help poor children
Publication date: Wednesday, February 10, 2016Author/s: Gill MainThe government wants to redefine poverty to be a measure of workless homes and educational attainment. But most children in poverty live...
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Research officers: interviews
Publication date: Tuesday, December 6, 2016There were four research officers who formed, along with Peter Townsend and Brian Abel-Smith, the core of the initial research team: Hilary Land (at the LSE),...
View ArticleThe centrality of poverty
Publication date: Friday, December 8, 2017Author/s: Glen BramleyPoverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation...
View ArticleUK Food Security
Publication date: Wednesday, May 8, 2019The UK Government recently agreed to measure food insecurity in the annual Family Resources Survey (FRS) – which is used to produce UK poverty statistics. Read...
View ArticleThe Poverty Alliance - New Webinar Series: Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland
Publication date: Friday, August 6, 2021Our upcoming webinar series will bring together a range of experts to explore the context of tackling poverty in Scotland.Subjects: Area deprivationChild...
View ArticleHunger and the welfare state: Food insecurity among benefit claimants during...
Publication date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021This report looks in detail at food insecurity among benefit claimants using YouGov surveys of the general public (n=2,600) and of claimants (n=6,300), both...
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