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On 13 December 2005, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published the latest edition of an established series (Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2005). This report is built around a set of 50 indicators organised by age groups within the population. The analysis covers issues from income, work and education to health, housing and crime. The two major themes for this year's report are child poverty and disabled people.
The authors find that, while progress is being made on a range of indicators, substantial problems remain and there are large differences within the population. For example, poverty is falling for children and for pensioners but not for working age adults without dependent children, nor for disabled people.
The findings raise a number of questions for policy including: how to achieve further reductions in child poverty, and the availability of adequately paid work for disabled people.
The report uses a combination of graphs, maps and text to analyse what the key issues are and how they are changing over time. They also explore how poverty and exclusion varies between the population as a whole and the most vulnerable groups within it.
The report can be viewed in 2 parts on the JRF website.