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Tackling disadvantage : a 20-year enterprise
— a working paper for the JRF's centenary conference, December 2004 | | Author(s) | David Darton, Donald Hirsch, Jason Strelitz |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, York, 2003 |
| Pages | 48 pp |
| Source | JRF, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP. |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Social structure ; Long term. |
| Annotation | In the past 20 years, relative poverty in the UK has increased. This report begins by identifying some fundamental causes of poverty and disadvantage, and looks at who are most affected. It sets out the key issues in six areas - education, family poverty, geographic disadvantage, income poverty, housing, and long-term care. It highlights the problems that need to be tackled, suggests long-term goals for public policy, and discusses particular ways in which these goals can be pursued. On long-term care, it notes that access to care could become a key source of social inequality in later life, and that problems with supply threaten to make the situation worse. The long-term policy goals should be to contain the cost by limiting the need for residential care, and to create a financial mechanism to make high quality care available for all. The authors argue that over the long term, despite some adverse social and economic trends, relative poverty and disadvantage can progressively be reduced, if there is a consensus that long-term improvement can and must take place. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030321203 B |
| Classmark | W6: TM: 4Q |
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