State of the nation report: poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency in the UK, 27/05/10 [W/E/NI/S]- CIW

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State of the nation report: poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency in the UK, 27/05/10 [W/E/NI/S]

This Cabinet Office report sets out an assessment of poverty in the UK in 2010.

Key statistics from the report include:

almost one in ten people live in persistent poverty, and there are 800,000 more working age adults in poverty than in 1998/99
1.4 million people in the UK have been on an out-of-work benefit for nine or more of the last 10 years
an estimated 670,000 households in the UK are eligible for benefits and tax credits of over £15,600 per year
health inequalities are higher now than they were in the 1970s
there remains a large gap in educational achievement between children from rich and poor backgrounds, with a 39 percentage point gap in gaining 5+ A*-C GCSEs between those living in the most and in the least deprived areas
5.3 million people suffer from multiple disadvantages in the UK
people living in the poorest neighbourhoods will, on average, die seven years earlier than people living in the richest neighbourhoods

The report is available to download from the Cabinet Office website.

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