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Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (percent) (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy has been designed primarily to life the incomes of middle-income families
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy in the UK has been designed primarily to lift the incomes of middle-income…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Post-Tax-Benefit Incomes (1977-2014) Government policy, from 1977 to 2014 has primarily focused on lifting the incomes of middle-income groups while…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Income Distribution (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 the most dramatic changes incomes were of the richest, whose incomes increased radically, and…
Graphic: 05.06.17 The Different Kinds of UK Benefits Benefit expenditure is primarily focused on pensions, housing costs and the collapse in middle-income salaries.
Graphic: 05.06.17 Real Poverty Poverty is not just lack of money, its also isolation, disadvantage and exclusion
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Benefits are Distributed Graphic:
Graphic: 05.06.17 Growth v Equality Since 1949 income inequality has got progressively worse, however this has no positive economic effect on growth.
Reviews: 31.05.17 Doughnut Economics Conventional economics is broken. Here is the radical alternative we need to shape a better future which works for…
Article: 26.05.17 Industrialised Humanity David Zigmond reviews the film I, Daniel Blake and argues that it reveals, not only the cost of austerity, but also the…
Album: 09.05.17 Relative Poverty Materials developed by Les Monaghan as part of his project to show the reality of poverty in modern Britain.
Graphic: 08.05.17 Unfair Burden of Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has announced a series of severe cuts to benefits and to local government and social care.
Graphic: 08.05.17 Unfair Targeting of Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has carried out a series of cuts or 'welfare reforms' reducing the incomes of disabled…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Government Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has increased funding in some areas, protected funding in other areas and severely…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Benefit Fraud is Tiny Benefit fraud is minuscule; in statistical terms it is insignificant. Tax fraud and tax avoidance are the real…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Poor Pay Different Taxes The poor pay a higher rate of tax than the rich. Essentially the poor are paying higher taxes, because they are paying…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Inequality and Poverty In 2016 the poorest 6.5 million individuals in the UK lived on an average of £51 per week after tax, that's about…
Graphic: 08.05.17 The Poor Pay the Most Tax The very high levels of indirect taxes mean that the poorest 10% of the population pay about 11% more in tax than the rest…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Real Cost of Benefits Spending on benefits and pensions is often exaggerated by politicians by only referring to the gross cost, before…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Inequality Growth The UK is one of the most unequal developed countries in the world. Inequality effectively doubled in the 1980s &1990s…
Graphic: 06.05.17 Disabled People Hit by Multiple Cuts Part of the report Counting the Cuts in 2014, which calculated the cumulative impact of the UK's austerity policies on…
Film: 27.04.17 Cuts Target Disabled People Dr Simon Duffy explains to Anton French Films how Government policy has targeted cuts on disabled people.
Paper: 21.04.17 State Crime by Proxy In this paper Mo Stewart continues her research into the links between the DWP, Atos Healthcare & Unum Insurance.
Article: 21.03.17 Abolishing the NHS Market In this powerful essay David Zigmond eviscerates the Internal Market which is choking the NHS to death.
Article: 15.02.17 Time to Stand Up and Be Counted Don Derrett urges us as individuals to stand up and stand against this new wave of intolerance and brutality, wherever…
Paper: 01.02.17 Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres Part of a larger network of TUC Unemployed Workers' Centres, this is Derbyshire's Annual Report for 2016.
Article: 19.01.17 Blowin' in the Wind Steve Griffiths rewords a Bob Dylan classic - a reflection on our crazy times where injustice and hatred seem to fuel…
Article: 16.01.17 The Welfare State and Community Cormac Russell argues that welfare reform in isolation of the enlargement of the commons is naive and…
Paper: 29.09.16 Political Literacy and Civic Thoughtfulness Henry Tam describes the principles that must underpin any coherent and decent community.
Paper: 29.09.16 Legal Literacy in Adult Social Care Belinda Schwehr, a leading expert in social care law, explores the declining standards in legal literacy which are…
Article: 18.08.16 Data on Social Care in England Simon Duffy pulls together some of the key data relevant to the Centre's submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry on…
Article: 08.08.16 A Career in Adult Social Care Virginia Moffatt reviews her 30 year career in adult social care in England and the journey from institutional…
Story: 07.08.16 Devon County Council Supported Living Service Review An anonymous account of how one service provider saw services for people they support cut after a new round of…
Story: 04.08.16 Care Cuts: Indignity & Uprootedness An anonymous account of the reality of social care for one man with complex disabilities in the United Kingdom.
Paper: 02.08.16 The Psychological Impact of Austerity This report from Psychologists Against Austerity shares well-established psychological research that directly…
Slide: 24.07.16 The Politics of Poverty In this presentation for an Anti-Poverty Conference organised by Bolsover CVP, Simon Duffy explores some of the myths…
Paper: 19.07.16 Life in Bolsover Today Inequality in the UK has doubled in a generation and the consequences are felt most harshly in places like Bolsover as…
Article: 19.07.16 Exploring the Meaning of Poverty Poverty isolates and divides us. It leaves us thinking we are not good enough and we are too poor to spend time with…
Paper: 19.07.16 A Troubling Truth Dr Claudia Gillberg reflects on her own experience of living with the chronic illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis or…
Article: 15.05.16 Totally Wrong List An overview of all the Government policies which harm or disadvantage people with learning disabilities in England.
Paper: 13.04.16 In the Expectation of Recovery George Faulkner's report outlines how misleading medical research has been used to support disability cuts.
Slide: 05.04.16 Farewell to Welfare Simon Duffy gave this talk on the demise of the welfare state under the leadership of the UK's Conservative Party at the…
Article: 22.03.16 Open Letter to Stephen Crabb Ekklesia and the Centre for Welfare Reform have published a letter to Stephen Crabb calling for an end to policies…
Article: 22.03.16 The Problem with Mandatory Reconsideration Eri Mountbatten outlines the worrying results from a recent survey of it's members by the National Association of…
Slide: 21.03.16 What Went Wrong with the Welfare State? Simon Duffy gave this talk at a Bishop's Breakfast in Bolton setting out why the welfare state is essential to justice,…
Article: 02.02.16 The Search for Suitable Housing The hurdles Jane Gregory, her family and her daughter had to overcome in order to get a home to live in despite official…
Paper: 06.10.15 Peace, Sustainability & Inclusive Citizenship in Colombia David Towell and colleagues offer a framework for exploring how education needs to be transformed to play its part in…
Slide: 04.10.15 What's Wrong with Welfare Reform A presentation given to bishops' spouses about Women Centred Solutions and what went wrong with welfare reform.
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