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On 30 November 2005, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a report (Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2005), which shows that Welsh poverty rates have fallen faster than those in England or Scotland in the past decade and are now no worse than the average for Britain as a whole. But one in four children continue to live in poor families and there are significant levels of poverty throughout the country Roughly a third of the 170,000 children in homes below the poverty threshold live in the Valleys, a third in Cardiff and the rest of the South, and a third in North, West and Mid-Wales. More than half live with lone parents who are mostly not working.
The report examines 32 different indicators, including education, employment, health, housing, transport and older people, as well as poverty indicators.
The full report can be viewed on the JRF website (pdf).