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'Engaging public support for eradicating UK poverty'
By Teresa Hanley
A summary of the findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Public Interest in Poverty Issues programme, looking at attitudes to poverty and what influences them, and ways of building public support for tackling poverty.
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Following a major consultation with leading thinkers, commentators, activists and members of the public, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has brought together the findings in this timely and challenging book.
published by The Policy Press
When it was suggested that the next book should be an anthology of crime stories we decided to do something a little different and approached an eclectic range of authors, from the Scottish crime writing community, and from far beyond, to see if they would like to...
The New Policy Institute produced its 2008 edition of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland, providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups. Based on the latest available data, its starting point is that, while child and pensioner poverty in Scotland has fallen over the last decade, poverty among...
Familiar and fantastical, comic and thought-provoking. Our City brings together ten of Scotland's top children's writers, with specially commissioned stories inspired by Edinburgh. Our City is published in support of the OneCity Trust.
To launch Our City Edinburgh schools took part in an 'Our City...
