How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?
Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as poverty - access to local services or employment, social relations or civic participation, health and well-being. The book also explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis of exclusion.
Written by leading academics, this is an authoritative account of welfare outcomes achieved across the UK.
A companion volume Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 focuses on specific groups such as children or older people, and different geographical areas.
Jonathan Bradshaw CBE, FBA is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. In addition to research into family policy, in recent years his research has focused on international comparisons of child poverty, child benefit packages and child well-being. He is a member of the Board of the International Society for Child Indicators and of the Foundation for International Studies in Social Security.
Christina Pantazis is Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies.
Dr Simon Pemberton is a Birmingham Fellow jointly appointed to the Schools of Law and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Simon completed his PhD in 2004 at the University of Bristol. In 2005, he was awarded an ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship to develop his doctoral work on social harm. He has published a widely on the notion of social harm and is currently researching aspects of social harm caused by social structures.
Glen Bramley is Professor of Urban Studies based in the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, and Equalities Research at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. His recent research has focused on planning for new housing, housing affordability, social sustainability and aspects of poverty, including destitution, homelessness, access to services and the costs of poverty. He has published several books and numerous journal articles. From 2006 to 2010 he was on the Board of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, and from 2010-14 part of the PSE-UK research team.
Marco Pomati is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Research Methods at Cardiff University.
