The Joseph Rowntree Foundation wants a debate on the long term prospects for tackling disadvantage. In a report: ‘Tackling Disadvantage – A 20 Year Enterprise’, it argues that the gap that has widened over the last two decades can be narrowed and relative poverty reduced to a minimum. The document sets out the steps needed in the next few years to ensure that the poorest groups in society achieve a fairer share of the nation’s growing prosperity.The report highlights the way in which economically impoverished groups are disproportionately likely to experience problems ranging from poor health to crime. It sets out evidence that a wide range of difficulties among young people including low school attainment to mental health disorders are more common among children from low-income families.
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