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On 5 December 2006, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a report
(Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2006 ) which offers an independent
assessment of the progress being made in eliminating poverty and reducing
social exclusion in Britain. It presents an analysis of all the relevant
issues, from work and education to health and housing, including the scale
of in-work poverty and its impact on the future reduction of child poverty,
the effects of policy on the reduction of poverty among working-age adults
and pensioners and variations in the numbers reaching ‘headline’
educational standards across different age groups. The report provides an
overall picture of what has happened to poverty and social exclusion since
the Labour Government came into office in 1997.
Also available on the JRF website are:
Monitoring
poverty and social exclusion in Scotland
Monitoring
poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland
Monitoring
poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2005
The full
report, for the UK as a whole, can be viewed on the JRF website
A
summary can also be viewed on the JRF website