Social inclusion UK news 2006


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News 2006

 * Poor communities get free-to-use cash machines. The Guardian, December 13, Rupert Jones
 * Serious problems remain in tackling root causes of poverty, says latest analysis. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, December 4
 * Labour's tax and benefit reforms weaken average work incentives, says IFS. Institute for Fiscal Studies, October 4 / Rewarding work
 * Government could help low-income older home owners to help themselves Joseph Rowntree Foundation, October 3
 * Over 2 million households estimated to be struggling to pay council tax, says new research Joseph Rowntree Foundation, September 28 / Rewarding work
 * 23 year low in new cases of homelessness. DCLG, September 11
 * Welcome for PM’s new social exclusion initiative comes with warning to avoid stigma. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, September 5
 * June 1, Government's Social Fund sometimes fails those most in need, says JRF Report.
 * January 26, Local Environment Quality information for all

Comment 2006

 * New Start editorial December 13 2006 - Simple solutions have a tendency to miss the point. So just as I find the actions of West Ham’s board less than reassuring, so I wonder about the Tories’ latest pronouncements about families and poverty.
 * New Start editorial October 11 2006 - David Blunkett’s description of the welfare state as a safety net into which people fall and remain conjures up images of the state as the hand that rocks a hammock for the indolent.
 * New Start editorial July 19 2006 - If you’ve seen the Young Foundation commentary on what’s wrong with the world we’ve created, you’ll know income poverty is just one of our crippling social ills.
 * New Start editorial May 31 2006 - Poverty proofing. Never mind the aspiration, just look at the words and it’s easy to see why the UK government is keen to import it from Ireland.
 * New Start editorial April 26 2006 - Gordon Brown must feel he’s on a hiding to nothing. Not only is the premiership tantalisingly beyond arm’s reach, but his holy grail - the elimination of child poverty - is proving ever more elusive.
 * New Start editorial March 22 2006 - This is Groundhog Day. You may have seen it before. Whichever way you look at it, it looks like yesterday or the day before, or the day, week or year before that.
 * New Start editorial March 8 2006 - What goes around really does come around. Twenty-five years after Michael Heseltine became minister for Merseyside, he’s back again advising the Tories about inner-city policy. As an admission of a party’s failure, that’s breathtaking.
 * New Start editorial March 1 2006 - So there is to be a cabinet minister for social exclusion. Hang out the bunting. Prepare the street parties. Let the disadvantaged celebrate with a display of choreographed forelock-tugging.
 * New Start editorial February 15 2006 - Buildings, both the elegant and inspiring ones and the ugly ones, impose their presence on a community. Line the Thames with discount warehouse sheds and you’ll facilitate a discount warehouse mentality.