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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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04/03/2020
Universal Credit, Employment and Mental Health
The Government claimed that Universal Credit would reduce unemployment by 200,000 and save the tax-payer £8 billion.
On the 7th June 2018, Esther McVey (The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) told parliament that: "Universal Credit is forecast to incentivise 200,000 more people to take employment than would have under the previous system and deliver £8bn of benefits to the UK economy per year." (see here)
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26/06/2019
Shame, Poverty and Health Seminar
A video of the 'Shame, Poverty and Health' seminar at the University of Exeter in July is now available to watch here. The seminar explored the how poverty undermines individuals' wellbeing, confidence and dignity.
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08/12/2017
The centrality of poverty
Poverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation of most aspects of social exclusion and a range of social outcomes, concludes the 2nd of the two-volume PSE-UK study.
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25/06/2017
Proposals to tackle persistent debt
With an estimated 3.3 million people paying more on interest in an 18 month period than they do on repaying what they owe, the Financial Conduct Authority's proposal for new rules for banks on tackling persistent debt need to be taken seriously. They could help banks as well as those in debt, argues Lindsey Burton
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03/02/2016
Briefings, PhD theses and other reports
Are subjective measures of well being effective at identifying risk of material deprivation? What are they measuring? How should we take account of children's views when examining measures of child poverty? Read Grace Kelly and Gill Main's Phd theses drawing on the PSE research.
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25/05/2014
Hard times: 2014
The Hard Times reports provide evidence gathered by communities themselves on the impact of austerity and cuts on families and young people across Northern Ireland. Watch the accompanying films on home repossession, struggles with debt and youth hopes and dreams on the community webpages.
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26/11/2013
Legacies of conflict: evidence from the 2012 PSE survey
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012 included questions, first asked in 2002/3, designed to capture the impact of the ‘Troubles’ on people’s lives. In this presentation for the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, Mike Tomlinson presents the initial analysis of these findings. The 2012 results survey found that just under a half of all adults (45%) experienced either the death or injury of someone they knew personally. For more than a third of adults (35%), someone they knew was killed. With the exception of imprisonment, all of the conflict experiences are associated with a higher risk of poor physical and mental health and most were associated with lower life satisfaction. Download the powerpoint and paper below.
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26/11/2013
Legacies of conflict: evidence from the 2012 PSE survey
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012 included questions, first asked in 2002/3, designed to capture the impact of the ‘Troubles’ on people’s lives. In this paper for the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, Mike Tomlinson presents the initial analysis of these findings. The 2012 results survey found that just under a half of all adults (45%) experienced either the death or injury of someone they knew personally. For more than a third of adults (35%), someone they knew was killed. With the exception of imprisonment, all of the conflict experiences are associated with a higher risk of poor physical and mental health and most were associated with lower life satisfaction.
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15/10/2013
Financial stress linked to mental health problems
Financial stress – caused by difficulty in affording essentials such as housing and fuel costs – is linked to worsening mental health among those affected, according to a new study of residents of deprived areas in Glasgow, Scotland.
The evidence presented comes from the GoWell programme, a long-term study of the progress of regeneration across deprived communities, and its effects upon health and well-being.
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