Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011

http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2011
This annual report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute uses 50 indicators to consider levels of poverty in the UK. This year it also considers the impact of coalition policies. Topics covered include: child poverty, poverty in old age, the unemployed and poverty, housing, fuel poverty and household debt. Graphs monitor change in circumstances over the last 10 years.

On this theme also useful is the poverty website. http://www.poverty.org.uk/ This is maintained by Guy Palmer. It provides free access to major UK indicators and reports

You can also search the UK Office for National Statistics http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/index.html for suitable datasets.

Other useful organisations include:

• Institute for Fiscal Studies http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/browse?subject=8 which has discussions and analysis of poverty and well-being.
• The Child Poverty Tool Kit http://www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk/ developed by the campaign Against Child Poverty and The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion has online tools to build anti-poverty strategies and analyse poverty at a local area.
• The main CPAG site  http://www.cpag.org.uk/ also has recent data and reports
• The Poverty Alliance have news and reports relating to Scotland. http://www.povertyalliance.org/publications.asp