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Summary of Reports and Statistics from the Week ending 27 March 2015
JRF Activity
Publication - Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2015.
Young adults under 30 now make up the biggest share of those experiencing poverty in
Scotland, and are the only age group to have seen an increase in poverty levels since 2003.
#Scotpoverty
Blog from Josh Stott Local leadership on the Living Wage is an important step in tackling
in-work poverty.
Blog from Helen Barnard - We need to concentrate on ending poverty not just reducing
food bank use.
Publication - Destitution in the UK: an interim report
Publication - Welfare to work devolution in England
Blog from Josh Stott - Welfare to work policy needs a radical shake up if were going to
meaningfully reduce poverty
Liverpool, draws on interviews to track the progress of families with at least one parent in
low paid employment.
Real Wages and Living Standards pre-election briefing from the LSEs Centre for Economic
Performance.
than in 2009 but 70,000 lower in industrial areas. In the industrial areas, 40% of the increase
in employment comes from potentially low paid and insecure self-employment.
'Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes', a new report from Respublica jointly with Age
UK and others, recommends that tenants should have the right to enforce energy efficiency
standards in the private rented sector. It also calls for the government to adopt more
ambitious targets for upgrading properties connected to the gas grid in the private rented
sector to a minimum standard of Energy Performance Certificate and to make EPC data
available to local authorities and housing providers at no charge to help target energy
efficiency improvement programmes.
A new report from the Public Accounts Committee recommends lengthening the budget
settlements for revenue funding for the maintenance of flood defences, so that the
Environment Agency and others can plan for the longer term. It estimates that five million
properties, or one in six, are at risk of flooding of some kind.
If another 100,000 homes were built a year, it would generate an estimated extra 430,000
jobs, 11.9 billion of economic output, 20,000 affordable homes, 2.7bn for additional
community benefits such as health and open spaces and over 1bn in extra tax revenue,
according to forecasts in a new report form the House builders Federation. Building
Communities, Growing the Economy.
Home buying affordability in UK cities is now, on average, at the same level as in 2009 but
15% lower than the peak in 2008, according to Lloyds Bank Affordable Cities Review. The
average UK city house price has risen by 7% since 2014, with affordability worsening in the
last year from 5.8 to 6.1 times gross average annual earnings.
Cross Cutting
A new report from the House of Lords Constitution Committee on the further devolution
proposals for Scotland expresses deep concern that the UK Government do not appear to
have considered the wider implications for the United Kingdom of the proposals and has
called for more detailed scrutiny of the changes.
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