Monitoring Poverty And Social Exclusion 2006

This is an independent assessment of the progress being made in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion in Britain. This report will be a resource and guide to UK policy makers and those wanting to take stock of what is happening and seeking to understand the challenges that lie ahead.

An independent assessment of the progress being made in Northern Ireland to tackle poverty and social exclusion This is the first in the established Monitoring poverty and social exclusion series to focus on Northern Ireland. The report is built around a set of indicators, which use the latest available data, some of which has only recently become available, to illustrate both trends over time and differences relating to social class, age and gender. The material covers a wide range of subjects, with chapters on income poverty, benefit recipiency, employment and pay, disadvantage at work, exclusion from services, housing and neighbourhoods, health and harm, and education.

The first and second editions of this report, Monitoring poverty and social exclusion: Labour's inheritance (1998) and Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 1999, attracted widespread coverage and set out a base line against which the Labour Government's progress on tackling poverty and social exclusion can be measured.

An independent assessment of the progress being made in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion in Britain. The report is built around a set of indicators organised into chapters. These chapters focus on areas such as low income, work, qualifications, health, housing and exclusion. The report provides a comparison of the last five years' progress with the previous five years. The analysis covers a range of issues, including;

The report is built around a set of indicators organised into chapters. These chapters focus on low income, worklessness and low paid work, education, ill-health and housing and exclusion. The report provides an overall picture of what is happening and the challenges that lie ahead.

Includes statistical tables and graphs.

A report developed to provide a model of assessment. This was built around nearly 50 statistical indicators, chosen on the basis of regular updating and established publication. The scale of the problem in 1996-7is first reviewed (i.e. the year before the Labour Government came to power) before determining whether matters have improved, deteriorated or remained unchanged since then.

The series of reports, Monitoring poverty and social exclusion, produced annually since 1998 by the New Policy Institute and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has had a major impact on the debate about poverty and social exclusion in Britain, improving public understanding and holding government accountable for progress. Ever since the first report, however, there have been discussions about the need for a more Scottish-specific analysis, partly in response to a widespread view that some of the issues are somewhat different in Scotland (for example, in health and education) and partly reflecting the observation that much of the debate in Scotland takes place in a Scottish-specific context.