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06/08/2021
The Poverty Alliance - New Webinar Series: Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland
Our upcoming webinar series will bring together a range of experts to explore the context of tackling poverty in Scotland. The results of the discussion and debates will be fed back to the Scottish Government, as part of Get Heard Scotland's process of contributing to the next Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
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03/09/2020
UNICEF Warns of “Looming Children’s Crisis” and the Urgent Need for the UK to Take Action to Improve the Lives of Children
UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 16, gives the UK an overall ranking of 27 among 41 EU and OECD countries on children’s health, academic and social skillsets. According to the data analysis, the UK ranks 29th for mental well-being, 19th for physical health and 26th for skills.
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20/11/2019
World Children’s Day
On this World Children’s Day, please see this important report focussing on the role of child rights in addressing child poverty: ‘Protecting the Child from Poverty: The Role of Rights in the Council of Europe’.
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13/11/2017
The extent of poverty
Read more about the first of the two-volume study based on the PSE-UK survey. Find out how poverty affects people from different groups within the UK: young and old; men and women; different ethnic backgrounds; those with disabilities; and others.
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22/10/2013
On Measuring Child Poverty
At their annual conference in September, the Royal Statistical Society organised a session on the government’s consultation on child poverty. With the next announcement on consultation now expected before Christmas, Paul Allin and John Veit-Wilson summarise the presentations and discussion.
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24/08/2013
Childcare support ‘skewed’ to better-off
The extra support for childcare costs proposed by the government is skewed towards wealthier households, even among those who will qualify for universal credit, according to a new report from the Resolution Foundation think tank.
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10/04/2013
Family allowances ‘not key’ to tackling inequality
Family allowances are less effective than policies such as childcare and parental leave in reducing household income inequality, according to a research study of a range of developed countries.
American academics looked at how welfare state policies were related to households' relative incomes for 17, mainly European and north American, countries between 1985 and 2005. They focused on the intersection between household income, family structure and parental education level.
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