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Tag: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Having Talked the Talk, Which Way should we Walk?

Posted on August 29, 2016

Drawing on new research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Professor Glen Bramley considers what policies would substantially reduce poverty in the UK.


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Posted in Homelessness & Social Exclusion, Neighbourhoods & Deprivation, News, ResearchTagged deprivation, Evidence-based policy, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, poverty

Select Committee Report misses opportunity to be radical on homelessness

Posted on August 19, 2016

Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Sarah Johnsen and Beth Watts reflect on recent recommendations to strengthen the homelessness safety net in England.


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Posted in Homelessness & Social Exclusion, Housing Policy, NewsTagged homelessness, housing crisis, housing shortage, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, mental health, welfare policy, Welfare Reform

The ‘more or less?’ quiz on ‘counting the cost of uk poverty’

Posted on August 1, 2016

Glen Bramley discusses the findings of his new Joseph Rowntree Foundation research counting the costs of poverty in the UK.


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Posted in Neighbourhoods & Deprivation, ResearchTagged Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Policy Research, poverty

Destitution and foodbanks in the UK: new evidence sheds light on topical debates

Posted on June 28, 2016

Dr Filip Sosenko examines food bank use in the UK drawing on new data from the JRF-funded Destitution study.


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Posted in Diversity/black and minority ethnic communities, Homelessness & Social Exclusion, Neighbourhoods & Deprivation, ResearchTagged child poverty, deprivation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, poverty, social exclusion

The most deprived areas have borne the brunt of local government budget cuts

Posted on March 11, 2015

A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report from researchers at the University of Glasgow and Heriot Watt’s I-SPHERE shows that the most deprived areas of England have seen the largest cuts in funding since 2010. The


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Posted in Neighbourhoods & DeprivationTagged Joseph Rowntree Foundation, welfare policy

Miliband’s mansion tax leaves unfair council tax unreformed

Posted on September 29, 2014

Ed Miliband’s proposal to raise £1.2 billion by levying a ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth in excess of £2 million provides no solution to the unresolved issue of property taxation


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Posted in ResearchTagged home-ownership, housing, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Young adults hit hardest by benefit sanctions

Posted on September 11, 2014

A new report published today focuses on conditional welfare arrangements, highlighting the disproportionate impact sanctions are having on young people.


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Posted in ResearchTagged Joseph Rowntree Foundation, welfare policy

Tackling Poverty in the UK: the best evidence and the right perspective

Posted on August 4, 2014

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.


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Posted in Homelessness & Social Exclusion, Neighbourhoods & Deprivation, ResearchTagged Evidence-based policy, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, poverty, social exclusion

The size of cuts does matter, Minister

Posted on December 10, 2013

Ministers dismissed evidence that the most deprived areas have been hardest hit by cuts, but they themselves were wrong to do so, writes Professor Glen Bramley.


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Posted in Housing Management & Governance, ResearchTagged Audit Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local government in England

Coping with the cuts? Local government and poorer communities

Posted on December 5, 2013

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.


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Posted in Neighbourhoods & Deprivation, ResearchTagged Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local government

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