Anti-poverty strategies for prisoners and looked after children
On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’.
The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation...
Breadline Britain now the reality for many working people
Richard Bilton, reporting for Panorama, describes how, despite persistent claims by mainstream politicians to be 'on the side of hard-working people', the majority of the poor...
Poverty and institutional care
As part of the Centre’s evidence and policy review on poverty and ‘institutional care’ on behalf of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation we held an anti-...
Review of poverty and institutional care – can you help strengthen the evidence base?
We have issued a call for evidence as part of our review of poverty, material deprivation and social exclusion of people in institutional care, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.