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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleFindings
Publication date: Wednesday, June 11, 2014Author/s: Communities in Action and PSE team membersCiA Feeling the strain_1I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I might fall...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLife 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, 2016Find out why policy needs to shift from Broken Britain to Britain's broken labour market, and how the commitment to neo-liberalism is resulting in devastating,...
View ArticleBooks
Publication date: Monday, February 1, 2016Mary Daly and Grace Kelly provide a compelling account of how families live with poverty in 'Families and poverty: Everyday life on a low income'. Find out...
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...
View ArticleResearch 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 ArticleOn Measuring Child Poverty
Publication date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013Author/s: Paul Allin and John Veit-Wilson At their annual conference in September, the Royal Statistical Society organised a session on the government’s...
View ArticleA million people to use payday loans for Xmas
Publication date: Friday, November 1, 2013Over a million people admit they plan to use payday loans to cover the cost of Christmas spending this year, according to a new survey from the Money Advice...
View ArticleTroubled 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleFindings
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLife 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...
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