Policy Hub
On 10 November 2008, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a series of short reports focusing on key policy areas relevant to the target of eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020. Each report presents an overview of the specified area, assesses progress over the last few years, considers the extent of its likely contribution to the overall goal and looks at effective alternatives where necessary.
Can work eradicate child poverty? (PDF)
examines the extent to which work can contribute to the eradication of child poverty and identifies a number of issues that necessarily arise if work is seen as the best route out of poverty.
Tackling child poverty when parents cannot work (PDF)
provides an overview and analysis of current policy approaches that support the incomes of parents who are unable to work, focusing on maternity, short-term sickness and unemployment and on issues surrounding disability and caring.
Addressing in-work poverty (PDF)
describes how the rise of poverty among children in working families is undermining the drive to end child poverty as a whole and considers what can be done about it.
Childcare and child poverty (PDF)
provides an assessment of the critical role childcare policies can play in ending child poverty by 2020.
Parental qualifications and child poverty in 2020 (PDF) http://www.jrf.org.uk
looks at how the anticipated changes in qualifications and in the occupational and sectoral distribution of employment will impact on the incidence of child poverty by 2020.
Ending severe child poverty (PDF)
asks what a focus on severe child poverty adds to our understanding of child poverty and what it may suggest in terms of future strategic approaches and policy solutions.
The effects of discrimination on families in the fight to end child poverty (PDF)
focuses on the discrimination experienced by families living in poverty in the UK ('povertyism'), examining the barriers preventing them from enjoying equal access to fundamental economic and social rights.