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What is the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’ on children and schools?

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Featured Posted: April 15, 2014

A year on from the introduction of the ‘bedroom tax’, Prof Ruth Lupton argues that reducing the incomes of poor families and creating instability for poor children is a nonsensical policy for a government committed to closing the socio-economic attainment gap. One of the Coalition government’s most controversial welfare reform policies, the so-called ‘bedroom tax’, […]

Tagged With: bedroom tax, children, education, housing benefit, inequality, MIE, schools, socio-economic attainment gap

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Why the Government should keep ‘discredited’ child poverty measures

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Featured Posted: March 3, 2014

Last week the government announced its child poverty strategy – but at the same time revealed that, after a year of consultation and consideration, it has still not been able to reach a conclusion on how to measure success. Prof Ruth Lupton explains why the government should stick with the measures it has got. Thanks […]

Tagged With: attainment, breadline, child poverty, inequality, MIE, poor, poverty, social mobility

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Tackling inequality: good for society and good for government

Duncan Exley By Duncan Exley Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: November 4, 2013

During Manchester Policy Week, four leading UK thinktanks were invited to debate what government and the state might look like beyond the current period of austerity. Panellist Duncan Exley (pictured above) of the Equality Trust believes the practice of government will become increasingly difficult from 2015, due to the policies of previous governments and the […]

Tagged With: austerity, equality trust, exley, inequality, regional, UK

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