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Poverty in the UK 2019
People in poverty numbers - link
Joseph Rowntree Foundation statistics and graphs on poverty - link
Foodbank data - link
Philip Alston’s UN report on UK poverty in full - link
Philip Alston’s response to Tory Government denials of poverty - link
DWP Civil Servants admit Alston’s report on U.K. poverty was ‘factually’ accurate - link
Various statistics on child poverty in the UK - link & link
Labour manifesto on social security - link
Labour social justice prioritised over social mobility alone - link
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Philip Alston’s UN report on UK poverty in full - link
Philip Alston’s response to Tory Government denials of poverty - link
DWP Civil Servants admit Alston’s report on U.K. poverty was ‘factually’ accurate - link
Various statistics on child poverty in the UK - link & link
Labour manifesto on social security - link
Labour social justice prioritised over social mobility alone - link
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Homelessness in the UK 2019
Rough sleeping link
320,000 recorded as homeless link
Overcrowding link
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Homeless Children in the UK
Child Homelessness Surges by 80% Under Conservative-led Government - Link
Labour Manifesto - plans to create secure homes for all Link
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Single mother wins court battle after being forced into homelessness due to benefit cuts - link
Some quotes from Philip Alston UN rapporteur's report on extreme poverty:
Unless austerity is ended, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
Child poverty in Britain “not just a disgrace but a social calamity and an economic disaster
The “endlessly repeated” mantra about rising employment overlooks that “close to 40% of children are predicted to be living in poverty two years from now, 16% of people over 65 live in relative poverty and millions of those who are in work are dependent upon various forms of charity to cope”.
"the department of work and pensions has been tasked with designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th-century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens.”
Alston said he had met people who had sold sex for money and joined gangs to avoid destitution.
“much of the glue that has held British society together since the second world war has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos ... British compassion has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited and often callous approach apparently designed to impose a rigid order on the lives of those least capable of coping.”
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Further useful links and quotes:
Single mother wins court battle after being forced into homelessness due to benefit cuts - link
Some quotes from Philip Alston UN rapporteur's report on extreme poverty:
Unless austerity is ended, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
Child poverty in Britain “not just a disgrace but a social calamity and an economic disaster
The “endlessly repeated” mantra about rising employment overlooks that “close to 40% of children are predicted to be living in poverty two years from now, 16% of people over 65 live in relative poverty and millions of those who are in work are dependent upon various forms of charity to cope”.
"the department of work and pensions has been tasked with designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th-century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens.”
Alston said he had met people who had sold sex for money and joined gangs to avoid destitution.
“much of the glue that has held British society together since the second world war has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos ... British compassion has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited and often callous approach apparently designed to impose a rigid order on the lives of those least capable of coping.”
